Signify needs you to pay $138 for an app that syncs Samsung TVs to Philips Hue lights | Engadget

(previously often known as Philips Lighting) has a brand new app. It sounds form of enjoyable. You can use it to sync no matter’s enjoying on sure to good lights, whether or not you are streaming a film, listening to music or enjoying video games. The concept is to make no matter you are watching really feel extra immersive by extending the colours to the remainder of the room. Neat! Not so neat is how a lot Signify is charging for the Philips Hue Sync TV app. It prices £115, which works out to $138.

In equity, that is nonetheless round $100 inexpensive than the , a tool that connects to your TV and syncs your lights to no matter’s enjoying. The app helps all picture codecs and you may customise the settings. You’ll be capable to tweak the lights’ brightness and the way intense the syncing is. You can select to auto-start the expertise and whether or not the lights ought to be in video or sport mode. There’s the choice to pinpoint the place lights are in relative to your TV too.

If you are someway all in favour of paying $138 for the app as a substitute of snapping up disco lights , you may want a 2022 or newer QLED TV within the Q60 vary or above. You’ll discover Philips Hue Sync TV on the Samsung TV app retailer beginning on January fifth.

Elsewhere, Signify introduced extra Philips Hue gadgets. The Resonate downward wall mild can brighten up outside areas. It prices £110 ($132) and can be obtainable on January twenty fourth. 

You may have to attend till March 14th for the most recent Philips Hue Tap dial change, which has a spherical mini mount that may be positioned on magnetic surfaces, like a fridge. That will run you £45 ($54). Signify has additionally revealed when the Go transportable desk lamp it will go on sale within the UK. You can snap it up for £140 ($169) on February twenty first.