Philips Hue Buying Guide (2023)
Philips Hue has a large catalog of smart lighting and accessories, but they don’t come cheap. Here are our top picks.
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Chapters:
0:00 – Best of Philips Hue
0:43 – Light Tube
3:12 – Gradient Signe Lamp
4:27 – Tap Dial Light Switch
6:21 – Monitor Gradient Light Strip
7:25 – Festavia String Lights for Xmas
9:11 – Hue Lightguide Bulb
9:36 – More Smart Lighting Incoming
hey Justin good to have you back reviewing Phillips Hue products again!
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Thanks Justin. Unfortunately music synchronization on the Hue is merely volume level sync. Pulsing to music. Very cheap. True music sync technology is 4 decades old (color organs) and are simple frequency responsive bypass filters. Color bands are chosen for different frequency bands blue lows and red or yellow highs. It’s mesmerizing. Hue is missing the boat, it would be so easy to filter the frequency spectrum by color and send the corresponding hue colors out to the devices. They have 90% of the solution already.
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I don’t think visually impaired need these lighting stuff!
I have tonnes of smart home tech at my house and no Philips Hue due to their products being overpriced. Smart tech isn’t new or niche anymore, so Philips need to get with the program and be competitive in the market price wise.
Can you mount the gradient light tube vertically? Or does it only work in the app horizontally below or above the tv. I would love to use it in the corners of my room with the sync box
I always felt Hue lights were overpriced, and I still think they are if you just want a bulb that you can change color and turn on and off with a schedule. But I moved into a new house and wanted a dark hallway to light up based on motion from either end of the hall. I also wanted different colors and dimming levels based on the time of day. Hue was the only one that had the correct type of light fixture that I had in the ceiling, plus motion sensors that work together, plus the color and dim levels. It works flawlessly and I’m really pleased with the look and function even though it cost an arm and a leg.
Glad to see you’re creating more content regularly again
I’m a huge fan of the Philips Hue Playbars! I have 4 of them in my home office and find them super flexible for ambient lighting and moving them around as needed.
“Adhere to the wall”
I find it weird that a blind person would like to set lighting and there’s buttons to help them.
Could you please shine your light on the CRI value of Hue in comparison to the cheaper Wiz? The more expensive Hue lights have CRI of 80. The cheaper Wiz lights have a CRI of 90. Isn’t that ironic? On paper, the Wiz bulbs have better light quality than the Hue bulbs, at least here in Europe. What’s behind that?
Justin, which kidney should I sell first to buy Hue products?
Hue Sync Box needs HDMI 2.1 before I buy one.
The light guide bulbs do look so sick. I just wish they’d come out with a sync box with hdmi 2.1 alreadyb
Cool 👍
What are your favorite smart home light fixtures? 👇
Great video, Justin! Glad to see you back on YouTube – have missed you on Justin_tech!
Hello Justin! Can the colors, gradients and brightness of Goovie floor light be controlled through Philips Hue remote or a smart plug? Or just turn on and off functionality
Govee vs Hue? That is the question. I’m running hue but have been thinking of switching to govee. Just seems like a better bang for buck.
I love the light sabre/uh tube lamp and the floor lamp the mos (remote is a bonus). Great dancing/jammin’ skills my man. Thanks for the helpful review.
Even at 2x he’s talking too slow. Ugh.
I had a lot of issues with the HDMI sync box, had to return it. Not sure if the box would just turn off or lose connection, tv screen would go black like it’s switching input. Then one day it just lost connection for days and would blink. I only had it for about two weeks, sad I really liked watching movies using it.
7:21 The Philips Hue Sync app is available for Mac for syncing with you’re screen. It works for mine M1 Mac 🙂
I have windows and Mac. The Philips hue app works just as well for Mac as it does for windows. It works for games, videos, and even music.
I’m a LIFX fan. Hues are good tho 😊
I like Philips Hue but wow that’s all so expensive
Hue is a rip off 😂
rip to those display handhelds that could be in a pair of hands playing a game
Lights for visually impaired person.🤔
I hate that everybody assumes that we are all gamers
what is the name of the game you’re playing on the ps5 please?
Pretty sure Hue sync does work with Mac. Am using it with the iMac right now.
I have a piano that Id love to sync with lights when music plays from it.. (I don’t want to hook up a computer) it has a speaker in it.. what do you suggest?
Phillips change their terms of service on pre-existing customers. They require stealing your data from you after changing the terms of service I won’t be supporting this company.
Useless video
Looks like your pretty vulnerable with lighting that only works with a mobile phone? Is that smart lighting? Could think of many situations where that could mean trouble. If I have forgotten my phone at work for instance, or if the wi-fi is down etc.
Honestly? These things look cool, but I can’t justify the price. I have a lot of smart lightbulbs throughout my house which are great, I just wish they weren’t so expensive.
I personally feel like Philips Hue lights are really overpriced. I have yet to see a product and feel it is worth the price tag, especially since every product I have seen has a cheaper option that works on google, apple, and amazon ecosystems. Also it looks like when the lights are trying to match games/video it is not actually getting information from the media saying show this color it seems it just takes the color shown the most on the screen and lights up that color making me feel like regular light strips that change color with music work really close to the same. I have that for my gaming set up and feel it gives the same level of immersion at least. once media is made that tells the lights what colors to do so that way lightning can be separate or if you come out of a cave the light would go from dim to really bright back to dim if it did then that it would be worth the price to me.
I have a question about the light tube. Since it lights up the whole wall behind tv, does it interfere with the gradient lightstrip ? I mean specifically when both lights being in sync mode. Or do they compliment each other?
Does anyone know if the Gradient sync box can handle 120hz 4k Gsynch yet?
Missed your Hue vidoes! A "hue"ge thank you for the walkthrough 😉
I like the outdoor range to brighten up my yard. Works great with a hue switch so anyone can turn them on or off without a phone.