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Posted on November 27, 21 by Hope Corrigan

Enjoy savings and RGB shine.

RGB light strips have always been a gimmick for me until I see their actual effect. This is a wonderful and dynamic immersive experience that, when matched with your game, will make your screen feel like jumping into your room. It is much cooler than I thought. But for high-quality lamps, it is usually much more expensive.

Philips Hue is known as one of the more expensive but more integrated smart lighting brands. They even collaborated with Loupedeck. Unfortunately, the higher price part is actually a considerable factor. We often talk about other brands that are still quite popular several times. I know this because I worked hard and slowly replaced all my lights with Hue bulbs. I like it, but my wallet doesn't like it.

Although this may not be our recommended lighting kit specifically for PCs, this Philips Hue Lightstrip starter kit is currently very cost-effective and meets non-Hue standards. It's less than half the price at $49.98 on Amazon, and the sale continues and is enough to get you started. 

Philips Hue | Light Strip Starter Kit | 80-inch Light Strip | Base Plug | Hue Hub | Compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant | Amazon $109.99 $49.98 (save $60.00) Buy some of the most expensive but great ones currently available Smart lighting can enjoy a discount of more than 55%. Regardless of your experience, this kit is a great way to introduce more RGB into your world. 

You can also get an 80-inch LED strip with adhesive, a base, and a Hue hub while it is $60.01 lower than the recommended retail price. The Hue hub is the connection point for the Hue lights, which means you don't have to add each individually to your router to fill it up. They also allow for additional functionality beyond the lighting, and the cost may be as high as the total cost of the kit. This is a very good deal, including all of them.

Light strips like this are easy to install and have stickiness on the back, but make sure to plan well before making major decisions. It’s also worth noting that these LED strips look rougher than you think. Many people use them to illuminate in a way that you would not see them directly, such as under a table. Others eventually put them after some sort of filter.

Another important note is that Philips Hue lighting does have a screen mirroring function on the PC through the app. This is a cool way to make your lights reflect what you see on the screen. However, some applications (like most streaming services) do detect this as a potential piracy issue and disable it. To obtain this effect without an application, and through the direct delivery of the video input, you need to obtain an equally expensive hue sync box. Sadly, we did not find anything in the Black Friday promotion.

Hope has been writing games for about ten years, starting with Vooks.net, Nintendo's fan site in Australia. Since then, she has talked too much about games and technology for publications such as Techlife, Byteside, IGN, and GameSpot. Of course, there is also in PC Gamer, where she can indulge in her inner hardware nerd through news and reviews. You will usually find that Hope is full of praise for some art, technology, or perhaps a wonderful combination of the two, if relevant, she will share it with you here. When she is not writing about other people's amazing creations, she is studying what she hopes to be her own one day. You can find her fictional relaxing far future sci-fi radio show/album/listening experience podcast on BlockbusterStation.buzzsprout.com. No, sadly she is not joking. 

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