Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box, Surround Lighting for TV Entertainment & Gaming Compatible with Alexa [Energy Class A+]
1 Sync Box 2 Activate Sync Box
| Weight: | 454 g |
| Dimensions: | 18.2 x 9.9 x 2.3 cm; 455 Grams |
| Brand: | Philips Hue |
| Model: | 929002275802 |
| Part: | 929002275802 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Pack Quantity: | 1 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Signify |
| Colour: | Black |
| Quantity: | 1 |
Franchement top , mais les branchements ! Franchement pas facile du tout une bonne prise de tte lol mais un rendu excelle
Insieme a una strip led gradient o play attaccati sul retro del televisore rende il film uno spettacolo.
4 ingressi per collegare Chromecast,firestick, PlayStation o quant’altro e un’uscita da collegare alla TV tramite cavo HDMI.
Necessita di hub hue.
Habe schon viele HUE Leichtmittel im Einsatz und mit der Sync Box macht das Filme schauen noch mehr Spa. Alles mit meinem AV Receiver verbunden und die Sync Box als Bridge genutzt. Funktioniert bestens. Wer den Euro brig hat und sich dazu noch den Guardien Light Strip kaufen mchte, macht hier nichts falsch.
Purchased this from Amazon warehouse at a decent price. Was slightly worried when I received due to the condition of the outer box as it looked in a bad way but on install all works fine. Anyway, I have the Hue kit in my house which is fantastic and it all runs very well through my existing Hub. I have a new Philips OLED TV – I decided to go with the higher spec TV rather than the backlit version and I always had this sync box in mind to complete the setup. It is fantastic and took me around 30 minutes to set up as it is so straightforward if you have the app and hub already. Download the sync app, follow the instructions and enjoy. I had already done research on the pros and cons so I connected my main two devices to ports 2 & 4 which have the most bandwidth. After setup, I spent some time adjusting some of the Sync box settings to my liking and I suppose this part could be frustrating as it is totally dependent on your other devices that are connected plus how you like the kit to work in your environment. The end result in fantastic and in my opinion worth every penny.
Update 11th October.
Issues with the box not auto switching on & off with TV. App controlled, it worked fine but had to manually switch on and off each time which is not ideal. After hours of messing about I also purchased some new quality HDMI from Amazon to see if that solved it. Made no difference so I gave up and returned to Amazon as faulty. I will definitely purchase another as the set up was fantastic. I wont be risking a warehouse return again and will buy a brand new one instead. Lesson learnt.
Love the products. My whole space is now filled with these products. They are expensive and mostly frivolous, but I love them! The sync makes any first person games a good deal more immersive.
I have mine synced up with 5 Hue Playbars. I love it. Take a a little setting up to get the box to work just how you want it too, and the video doesn’t show it at its best sadly but for gaming and movies, amazing. I love it. I would definitely recommend. Sadly it’s costly, but I have smart home stuff everywhere so it was only a matter of time before I added it to my setup! I just want another now for my bedroom!
Love it easy to fix, start up and use, dim the rest of the lights and watch your film come to life, we added some other lightbars in the room and sync them all! Totally awesome
Installed on my LG G1 OLED. It fits well, I’d recommend doing some measurements before you install the brackets so don’t do it whilst the TV is on the wall! I don’t have the sync box. But the zoned light effects are great, against a white wall the light is soft and well diffused.
Are Philips hue products overpriced. Definately. Are they good? Hell yes. I’ve tried cheap stuff, other brands of smart bulbs etc and nothing compares to hue. This latest edition is brilliant. This really brings movies and games to life connected to the hue sync box. Well worth i
Por lo general funciona bien con fuentes RGB estndar, hasta 4K 60fps sin ningn problema.
Tras las ltimas actualizaciones tambin es compatible con HDR10 HDR10+ y Dolby Vision. Aunque en estos modos, de vez en cuando da algn pantallazo o parpadeo en negro en el TV, que se queda analizando la seal del HDMI. Suele pasar alguna vez cada 5 horas.
Con las fuentes en Dolby Vision puede llegar a dar algn problema a la hora de interpretar el contenido y puede llegar a desincronizarse. Hay un modo para forzar la compatibilidad que recorta un poco el rango dinmico, quedando la imagen un poco menos contrastada.
La reproduccin y representacin de los colores funciona prcticamente idntico al sistema Ambilight. Tan slo echo de menos ms opciones de personalizacin a travs de la app oficial. Ya que no los permite ajustar a voluntad el brillo mnimo de las luces. Quedando prcticamente apagadas en escenas oscuras. Tampoco incluye modos pregrabados de ambientes. nicamente funciona como sincronizador y hub de diferentes fuentes. (Hasta 4 entradas HDMI).
El precio oficial es caro. Quizs se echa en falta un mando o controles bsicos desde la propia caja. Dependemos de la app oficial desde mvil o PC.
Se puede utilizar en conjunto con la app HUE. Incluso se puede poner en marcha la sincronizacin desde all .
Lo estoy utilizando con 2 barras Hue Play + un foco Hue Go. El efecto es bastante espectacular, aunque lo ideal es utilizarlo con una tira Hue Gradient. Lstima que la inversin total entre las luces, Sync Box y Bridge (imprescindible el bridge) normalmente supera los 400 euros. Ms de 500 si utilizamos tiras Hue Gradient.
Couldn’t imagine having this system without the sync functionality. Excellent!
This is a superb addition to any home cinema system! I have loads of Philip’s Hue lights, and this made sense to enhance the TV area of the sitting room.
I have my Apple TV plugged into this and then this plugs into the TV. There’s room for four things to be cabled into this.
Connection was easy through the Hue app, which walked me through everything very easily. Begin by trying to add the Sync Box in the standard Hue app and then it tells you to get another one, but starting here means you’re walked through everything.
Up to ten lights can be used by the box, and so I have the strip behind my TV, a large strip behind my sofa, an Iris, and the seven spots in the ceiling. You configure where they all are in relation to the TV (again v easy) and the. You’re good to go.
It’s a discrete box, and is really easy to use.
An impressive piece of kit. Well done to Philip’s.
This device is great when gaming or watching a movie. It is very very simple to use and works well. It needs a philips hue bridge to work. Highly recommended if you have alot of philips hue devices
Easy to fit and looks great. Love the different lighting effects and it even links up through the wireless lighting system of my Numark Mixstream Pro DJ controller.
Night and day difference. We aren’t using the HDMI box (ridiculous cost if you ask me) but it’s ambient background is amazing. Previously we had three of the bars attached, but the light is just sensational by comparison. Expensive? Sure, but worth it. If you want to sync to content, I’d just hold out until the HDMI accessory becomes worth what it actually is – which is at least 25% of the RRP!
Initially I was a little disappointed as, like others, I experienced the Sync Box losing connection. However, after a little digging I found this could be easily resolved by:
– replacing the supplied Philips HDMI connecting the Sync Box to the TV, with a good quality/fast lead – I know, it’s ridiculous given the cost!
– Use the two fastest HDMI ports (2 & 4) on the Sync Box for the most demanding inputs (i.e Firestick/games console etc), Philips confirmed these have more bandwidth. Something like a Freesat/SKY box will work happily in one of the other ports
– if you are using a Fire Stick/Roku this should be connected directly into the back of the Sync Box without the use of an extender cable
Since this was done our box hasn’t missed a beat during movies or whilst listening to music/video content via Prime Music.
It is expensive, but for those already heavily invested in Hue coloured bulbs this is a no brainer.
Brought this as my partner loves lighting and has a few of the Phillips ones. He loves it and the way it enhances what we’re watching.
Ok so I didn’t expect this to work as well as it does
Easy to set up and works with all my hue lights.
Love it.
Hue product are notoriously over priced, but then again they just work. This beats my play bars 100% . My biggest problem is my fire cube or 4k max stick having to be put to sleep to keep the device off. Outside of that who needs to go to the movies. This thing works awesome with a big screen and dolby atmos soundbar.
Amazing how much this adds to watching tv. Easy to setup and works great with the rest of the hue range
The light is nice and bright and easily adjustable via the Hue App. We regularly have it on even if the tv isn’t just to create some cool ambiance.
Expensive, but totally worth it.
Check out the video to give you an idea of what it looks like.
Absolutely great lights, extremely bright, we don’t even use the ceiling ones as this is much more comfortable, can dim it from our phones and it’s just amazing! Great value for money!
Il costo veramente disarmante per un apparecchio del genere. Funziona e l’effetto di “sorround luminoso” mi piace molto, per che esagerazione Philips!
Il prodotto Comunque molto facile da installare e configurare. Dopotutto funziona solo con luci Philips quindi tutto ben integrato. Su questo nulla da ridire: impeccabile. Per che pretesa sui nostri portafogli !
Easy to install the only one thing I found. you have to go to the original Hue app to make the light switch off when you are finished with him.
Il dispositivo ben presentato nella sua scatola, alimentatore per tre dispositivi Hue, adattatori di alimentazione europei e britannici, cavo HDMI credo sia 1 m e ovviamente istruzioni
Devi avere il bridge hue, ma pensa di acquistarne uno e ovviamente le luci hue, fai attenzione a non altri e costa un altro occhio. clinclin clinclin clinclin
necessario eseguire l’installazione tramite lo smartphone. Le app Hue e Hue si sincronizzano da sole, se non hai un cellulare, sai gi che devi comprarne uno hahahaha. segui i passaggi indicati, semplice.
Dispone di quattro ingressi hdmi, tutti i dispositivi video che si desidera utilizzare con l’ambilight devono essere collegati e una singola uscita hdmi che installata sul televisore, attenzione funziona solo se il video passa attraverso il dispositivo, l’antenna ad aria non lo far vai, vediamo se risolvono.
In breve, fa molto bene il suo lavoro, ho installato una striscia sfumata ed fantastico.
Lo consiglio? perch no. Se vuoi avere Ambilight sulla tua TV, il migliore.
Riflessione; Per qualche soldo in pi puoi acquistare un televisore Philips con Ambilight, che sono quelli che hanno il brevetto esclusivo.
Mais.. dgrade fortement la qualit du signal HDMI.. dcalage au niveau des voix mais le plus rageant c’est la perte de quali
Great when it works, it’s a little too hit and miss. Slight lag but not that noticeable unless the screen is fast moving.
The price for this is ridiculous when you couple in the price of ghe lights as well.
If you’re looking at this, then you obviously have a Phillips hue setup. You may have tried Sync My Lights, or some similar app and been disappointed- well so did I, but I went ahead and got this as soon as it was released, and it has been brilliant.
It really does make films more immersive- if you set the room lights dim and have this set up with just the light around the tv, it gives the best effect; so realistically, you’re going to need at least 2 colour changing hue lights by the tv. I have 5 lights around my tv, and it works brilliantly. You can include all the lights in the room, but that tends to get a bit distracting, especially if the lights are behind or beside you. Also, I normally keep the intensity on ‘subtle’. A faster setting works well for video games, but can be distracting if you’re watching a movie/program. Generally, you don’t notice it directly, and it just subtly expands your perception of the screen area- except when the scene keeps flicking between 2 shots with very different brightness, in which case it is a bit noticeable.
It allows for 4 hdmi inputs, which it can switch between automatically, and has a single output, -so you feed all your devices into this, then from this to your tv. You can’t make smart tv apps work on this, as it needs to ‘intercept’ the hdmi feed to know what colour to use.
The speed and accuracy of the colours is brilliant, and it is very reliable- it can occasionally glitch or freeze for a moment, but this is not frequent and sorts itself out quickly.
Overall, it’s a quality product, and the price tag matches that- but then; if you’ve spent a ton of money on your tv and lighting already, why not add just a little more..
Really enhances the movie experience. Fire cube and switch plugged into it. Decided I prefer a block colour when watching normal TV so cable box not plugged in. Really easy to set up. I have 7 play bars on a 75 inch TV. Took a star off value as it is expensive although do not regret buying i
This little box is great! The tv sync to the hue lights is amazing (for me!). Wife doesn’t like it, and the price is quite high for something that really is only used when watching a movie, which these days isn’t that often.
I really like this product. Price is steep, but if you already own Philips Hue, this is nothing surprising.
It gave me 4 hdmi ports to save me switching on a monitor. Works great on anything plugged in, my video shows YouTube running on an xbox series x.
3x light bars and a light strip.
After many hours to troubleshooting, cables changed and TV settings, I have found how to solve the problem..
I have a Samsung TV. Follow these steps to ensure the HDMI UHD Color setting is disabled:
Open the TV settings with your remote
Go to the General tab
Select “External Device Manager”
Select “HDMI UHD Color”
Uncheck the circle for the HDMI port that is connected to your Hue Sync Box to turn off HDMI UHD Color.
This resolved the issue immediately for me and I have not seen it come back. I turned the setting back on to make sure and the error happened right away.
Now everything is working fine.
I’ll start off by saying that once you have the right setup, this product really does work the way it’s supposed to, however in order to achieve this there are a few things you need to know.
First the obvious, this product is expensive! and you should only consider paying the price if your already invested in the Philips Hue ecosystem, and by that I mean already owning a ‘Hue Bridge’ (49.99) and a few ‘White & Colour Ambience Bulbs’ (84.99 Pack of 2) at the very least, there is almost no point in owning this product if you only have Philips Hue bulbs that can only move between warm and cool light, you need colour for this to be effective.
To achieve the very best effect, and what I would argue is the intended use from Philips, your going to need the following products:
Philips Hue Sync Box: 229.99
Philips Hue Gradient Lightstrip: 159.99 – 199.99 (Price varies depending on the size of your tv)
Philips Hue Bridge: 49.99
Adding this up your now coming in at between 439.97 – 479.97 and that’s without having a couple of additional lights dotted around the room for a fully immersive effect.
Additionally, once you’ve justified the price your going to need to ask yourself if you have the patience and reasonable tech knowledge to set it all up and your going to need WiFi to achieve this.
The setup process itself isn’t too bad if you know what your doing, you download two apps, the first is to locate all of your devices and link them together and the second is to adjust sync preferences and turn it on/off. When I began using Hue products a few years ago they all ran through your WiFi, meaning a good WiFi speed was necessary, however I’ve recently heard that the new versions can run via local Bluetooth built into the various products, but I’m yet to confirm this, so it may still be the case that you need a good speed for it all to work well.
When I first set this all up I noticed some delay and stuttering with the lights in accordance to the image displayed on my TV, to fix this I moved the Sync Box and Hue Bridge next to each other and placed them both close to my WiFi router, the experience was then everything and more than I imagined.
To round this all up I’d say the ‘Philips Hue Sync Box’ is a definite recommend to anyone already invested in the Philips Hue ecosystem and is looking to treat themselves. That being said I’d advise those of you who fit this description to put the ‘Gradient Lightstrip’ on your wish list for later down the road to fully amp up the experience.
If you don’t already own any Philips Hue products I’d advise starting your hue journey somewhere else with something like a starter kit including some bulbs and the bridge to get used to the experience and slowly build things up from there, that’s how I started and a few years down the road I now have a fully ‘hued’ entertainment room. 479 is a steep starting point for anyone not familiar with these products or how well they work within your home.
It took about 2m to fix to back of TV then another 2m to edit my entertainment area in the Hue app so couldn’t have been easier.
Great bit of kit.
Only downside I had was after initially setting everything up and using it for the first time (about 5 hours), the next time I pulled up the sync app, it wouldn’t connect.
Work round was accessing my router and disabling the 5ghz bandwidth whilst I done a factory reset of the sync box, connected everything back up and followed the app instructions again. Turned the 5ghz back on after an hour. No problems since
Great lights works well woth my xbox one S but when used with my 4k on music mode the lights still flash when no sound is detected hope this is fixed soon otherwise great addition to my tv (samsung 7 series 55 inch 4k uhd)
Behind the front speakers (left and right) there is a play bar each with an iris light closer to the floor.
The way this is set up is blu ray > AVR > Samsung box > tv. It has no issues with 4K HDR content (tested in 2 set ups with a panasonic 4K)
I use it with a Logitech elite remote and set up was a breeze. Works 90% of the time, failing that the app can get it working. (You can control Upto 10 lights)
Viewing is so much more immersive, really enjoy watching films with this on, tv is also great. Gaming with this is ok, some may want it on some may want it off)
As for the ps5, if you have a tv that supports 2.1 you won’t be able to use these features with this box as it won’t support the FPS.
Le boitier comme toute l’architecture philips Hue est ultra simple installer et utiliser.
on le branche, y branche les hdmi des lecteurs dessus et hop a fonctionne.
Ensuite on installe l’application ddie, elle est trs simple utiliser, mme un enfant de 5 ans saurait s’en servir. Celle ci retrouve trs facilement l’environnement Philips cr avec les ampoules qui vont bien. personnellement j’utilise des hue play qui ont un superbe rendu et un lightstrip derrire l’cran pour donner de la profondeur.
Le rendu des couleurs est vraiment sympa, il est possible de configurer la vitesse de changement des lumires ainsi que leur intensit.
bref, un ambilight parfait lorsque vous n’avez pas la tlvision ou l’quipement qui va bien et vous vous voulez vous crer un environnement cinma avec une immersion totale.
un excellent produit que je recommande
handy device but needs the Philips hue sync app to gain full functionality and at times has difficulty switching to the right AV port that you want to watch
Handy features enable it to turn on and off automatically when needed. and the ability to set what lights you want to use for the sync device.
Unfortunately everything has to run through the device for the lights to sync to the screen so if you are just watching TV it does not work.
Had to make sure the HDMI cables are version 2 atleast, to make sure it works with 4k and apple tv. Works perfectly now.
Love the product but it doesn’t always respond when changing HDMI input which can be frustrating. Switching is slow to. Effects are good when connected. shame can’t integrate with Smart TV . Have to now watch all smart apps through TV Boxes .
Makes the movie experience so much better and immersive with lights that accentuate a movie scene. I would have loved it if it can support more than 10 lights in an entertainment zone.
Makes the movie experience so much better and immersive with lights that accentuate a movie scene. I would have loved it if it can support more than 10 lights in an entertainment zone.
I found the setup of this product a bit of a pain because my router has 2 bands. You have to ensure that you only stick to 1 band else the setup gets most of the was through but never finishes. I finally found this out by googling.
Once set up though this works perfectly with the pair of lights I bought for the TV. Movies & Gaming now have excellent synced lighting.
It is genuinely one of the best gadgets I’ve ever owned. The first time I used it I was speechless how good and responsive this was. Yes it might be expensive but I do think that people that want to improve their home theatre experience will be delighted with this.
I’ve started with 3 Play Bars behind the TV and then wanted to make the full room “Syncable” so I bought 3 Hue Go 2.0. These are usually really expensive but I waited to buy when there was an offer on Amazon and managed to get a good price each.
The Sync Box can be a bit temperamental though, I recently had a new Wifi upgrade from Virgin and they’ve sent us a new 1Gbps router. It messed it all up completely, the sync would drop every 10 mins although it was working fine before. After a lot of fiddling with the network I realised that the main issue was coming from the Hue Bridge (plugged to the router via ethernet) now being too far (in the bedroom) from the Sync Box. Very strange as it was the exact same setup with the old router and never had an issue before! So luckily I had an extender in the Living Room, plugged the bridge on the extender’s ethernet port and never had an issue since. Be aware that if you change your Wifi network or router, it might cause some issues. Make sure that the bridge isn’t too far either, you can check the connection status in the Hue Sync app, if it says “Good” then you’re fine.
I’ve seen reviews saying that were saying it wasn’t compatible with Dolby Vision. Indeed it wasn’t for a while after it launched but they now are supporting Dolby Vision just fine. I watched a lot of Dolby Vision content on Netflix recently and haven’t had an issue. The option “Dolby Vision Enhanced Compatibility” in the app needs to be turned ON (only if it doesn’t work), I did the first time, the lights wouldn’t show the right colours but ever since I ticked that option it’s been fine.
Pros:
– Improve home theatre experience drastically
– Incredibly responsive and accurate with what’s showing on screen
– Many customisation options including intensity, brightness, adding more lights, placement in the room etc.
– Compatible with most video formats such as Dolby Vision (in recent months), 4K…
– You can enjoy the most out of your TV by keeping the brightness at high level as the lights will help when room gets dark
– Very reliable, when setup correctly
Cons:
– Expensive (but still worth it in my opinion) won’t be affordable to everyone especially if you need a certain amount of lights. Wait for the best deals/Black Friday/Cyber Monday.
– Can be temperamental with some routers/network setups
– No Ethernet port, works via WiFi only
Current Setup:
1 x Hue HDMI Sync Box
1 x Hue Bridge
3 x Play Bars (Top, Left, Right behind TV)
3 x Hue Go 2.0
En revanche le prix est beaucoup trop lev, j’ai attendu une promo pour sauter dessus.
Sinon les fonctions CEC et ARC fonctionnent sans aucun soucis, et la 4K aussi. (Attention 8K non compatible)
Un autre petit avantage c’est l’alimentation qui est la mme que les hue play, du coup une seule prise pour mes 2 hue play et de boitier HDMI !
L’application Philips est une merveille, malgr que la premire fois j’ai eut un peu de difficult a inscrire mon boitier, j’ai du le faire plusieurs fois avant d’y arriver …
J’enlve 1 toile pour le prix (Comme tout ce que Philips vend), mme si la qualit est la, a ne vaut pas ces prix !
Very effective and easy enough to install- just a bit on the pricey side-but a great addition if you are into creating lighting atmospheric’s
Very steep considering, be adviced you need a hue bridge to use including lights.
Afinando ms, habra sido ya perfecto que las tiras de led Hue, modificarn su color cada 1-3 leds, el efecto habra sido espectacular.
An as, el efecto logrado es el ms increble que he visto.
En nuestro caso tenemos una pantalla de 135″ con cuatro tiras leds en vez de una sola de 10M.
As conseguimos cuatro tonalidades diferentes.
Tambin 3 luces de pie y otras tres en el techo.
Se puede modificar la intensidad y brillo.
Tena el problema de que la Nvidia SHIELD apagaba directamente proyector pero al hacer el Sync Box de intermediario, no lo permita, pero existen mltiples opciones de sincronizacin y de energa que lo han resuelto inmediatamente.
Incluso podemos configurar controles de otro mando infrarrojo que tengamos para que, con el, se puedan controlar opciones del Sync Box.
Como apagarlo, encenderlo, modificar el brillo, intensidad, el puerto de entrada….
Tiene opcin (beta eso s, y en ingls) para Alexa y Google Home.
Pero me quedo tranquilo porque veo que es un aparato que continuamente estn manteniendo y actualizando.
En definitiva, una pasada.
Tus pelculas suben a otro nivel, eso s.
No veo normal que est prcticamente al precio de una Nvidia SHIELD ya que las prestaciones y aplicaciones ni son comparables.
Lo compr por 224 de oferta y an as me pareci caro.
No quita que merezca muchiiiisimo la pena.
Adis cine, ahora s que s.