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Is your TV ready for some smarter lights?

If you’re looking for some new lighting schemes to enhance the change of seasons, Philips Hue is releasing its newest smart lights to highlight your home theater.

Play and Signe are the two newest lights from the creators of the popular color-changing lights you manage via app. These new lights are designed to create a new level of ambient lighting in your home theater.

“Our latest products provide new ways for people to create personalized lighting experiences in their homes,” according to Jasper Vervoort, head of marketing and product management for Philips Hue’s company Signify. “Whether it’s ambiance creation or making gaming and music truly immersive, our new Philips Hue Play and Philips Hue Signe collection are designed to transform your living space.”

Philips Hue Play is a 9-inch versatile bar of color-shifting light that creates an indirect light effect. Place it under a cabinet or mantel, next to the screen, behind the television, or anywhere you find it’s best to project ambient light. It provides up to 16 million different colors. The bar comes in both black and white. You can buy it as a single unit, a single unit and power supply, or as a base kit with two Plays, two base stands, and a power supply. Each power supply – similar to a laptop battery – supports up to three Plays.

Philips Hue Signe is a thin, vertical lamp that casts colored light onto walls. It comes in two sizes of fixtures: a table lamp and a floor lamp. It comes with a standard plug for power. It literally paints your walls with light, and can be placed directly next to the television or anywhere in a room to create the right ambient lighting effect.

Both Play and Signe are controlled using the Hue app. They can also be managed by voice commands with Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple’s Siri. And they need the Hue Bridge to translate Zigbee signals. You can also sync up the lights with Amazon Echo Plus. 

Both Play and Signe will be available for preorder by the end of this month, and shipping out in October.

To learn more about what smart lights could do in your home theater, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love show you what can happen.