The colors are decent overall. The yellow and orange spectrum are not quite as full as I had hoped, but this lighting system does do blue, red, purple and green very well. White light is also not quite as pure as I had hoped (a bit bluish green in my experience), but I was still satisfied with the color spectrum and did not expect perfection at this price. Also, it should be noted that this does get quite bright, and I have found that the best way to manage the brightness (since there is not a dimmer switch) is to choose how far from the center of your TV you place the lights through some trial and error.
OK, so here is my problem. After installing the lights initially, I noticed that the light was a bit fragmented. This is hard to explain, but there were reflection lines in the glow that came from the strips. I noticed that this was because of the glass shell that houses the light strips. The glass seemed to block some of the light and show distortions in the glow from behind the TV which I found pretty annoying. As a perfectionist, I wanted a nice true glow from these lights without any reflections, so I decided to remove the glass shell. If you look closely at each glass strip, you will notice that the glass shell is only attached to the strip by one small dab of glue. By working a sharp knife into the glass tube, you can cut through the glue and easily remove the LED strips from the housing. THIS MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
After mounting the LED strips alone, without the glass shell, I was blown away by the difference in light quality. The glow from behind my TV is smooth and even without any disturbances. I was amazed at how well this kit highlighted my TV and actually made the picture appear much clearer and brighter.
This may or may not be a problem for people, but the distortion was noticeable after installing on a TV 6" from the wall. If you will be installing on a similar setup, I highly suggest removing the glass shell. It will make all the difference.
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These are very well made lights, very bright and has an awesome look to them. I put them under my glass top desk in my room and it looks great! The only complaint I have is the cord from the lights to the 5 way connector box is too short to my liking. I was going to put one light strip behind my tv which is about 7 feet from my desk (Or where the plug for it is) but that is my bad for not double checking the length. People are right there is barely any orange color if at all so if you want orange lights don't get this. Overall a great product and you can put them basically anywhere you like!Best Deals for IKEA - DIODER 4-piece Light Strip Set, Multicolor
The color modes on the set are nice, but the 'white' is definitely a bluish-green that is ok for now but not long term. The problem lies mostly in that the emitters themselves need a frosted or other 'diffuse' filter on them. the individual color leds are far enough apart that they dont blend properly (which makes the color banding the other reviewer noticed with the casings intact more noticeable). I recently tested in store at lowes the cyron led sticks (very similar to this but with a worse controller) and it did the same 'banding' and 'off white'. Unfortunately it seems that with cheaper RGB chips this is what is expected.If you want something to have a colored accent, or color shifting lighting effects this is a decent little set. If you're looking for video bias lighting behind your display (reduces eye strain among other things) keep looking elsewhere or find a straight white led set, be sure it is 'daylight' or 6500k.
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