The Philips Hue range is one of the best alternatives to manage your lights with HomeKit, Philips also has experience in a sector that practically monopolizes, that of Ambilight, the lights behind the television that change depending on the content offered. Now Philips has launched the Hue Play Box, a plug-in that syncs to TV to manage your Hue bulbs.
With the arrival of this interesting device finally the "tips" are over Of those who opt for televisions from other brands but want to enjoy the features that the intelligent management of Hue bulbs offers through television, let's see what this new Philips Play Box consists of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz9pXxE_vqg
This device is quite small. Another advantage is that it will not occupy an HDMI port individually, since in reality it will only act as an intermediary between the video source such as Apple TV or Blu-Ray, and the television, it will occupy an HDMI in the event that it does. Let us only use television as a video source through applications such as Netflix for example. This device supports 4K 60Hz video signals and is fully HDR10 compliant, although neither the HDR10 + nor the Dolby Vision has been integrated, something that is not entirely understandable at this time.
This device will be able to manage all the Hue lighting in our home, although the LED strips that we can place in the living room are obviously of special relevance, because performing this synchronization through light bulbs can offer results that are not the most appropriate. The Philips Hue Play Box will be officially launched in all markets next October 15, hand in hand with the novelties of the Philips Hue range catalog, the price is 229 euros, definitely not cheap.