Cyron lighting

[Uncle Leo]

Is this stuff only available online? I want it for my system and would rather buy locally.

Are the lights sound activated?

Are their other similar brands?

[Bad8511]

I believe Costco has them. If you call Cyron, they can ship same day. I don't think yhey are sound activated and I have not come across any similar brands. Alot of people use rope lighting available at Lowe's or Home Depot.

[quirkmanly]

Originally Posted by Uncle Leo

Is this stuff only available online? I want it for my system and would rather buy locally.

Are the lights sound activated?

Are their other similar brands?

Ikea (if you don't mind driving into Orlando) has a range called Dioder (light strips or these hockey puck looking things). Blu-Ray Fever uses them, here is a link to their gallery.

https://www.blu-ray.com/community/ga...lu-Ray%20Fever

[Uncle Leo]

Originally Posted by Bad8511

I believe Costco has them. If you call Cyron, they can ship same day. I don't think yhey are sound activated and I have not come across any similar brands. Alot of people use rope lighting available at Lowe's or Home Depot.

Thanks, did not think of Home Depot!

[DavidAg02]

Originally Posted by Uncle Leo

Is this stuff only available online? I want it for my system and would rather buy locally.

Are the lights sound activated?

Are their other similar brands?

Amazon has the basic lighting kits, but if you want anything special you have to go directly through Cyron.

The lights can be sound activated if you get their special $200 controller which will also do tons of other things like allow for IR control, dimming, custom colors, etc.

[liquidice]

Leo, I'll tell you though, most of these people with the color lights don't use them while watching a movie. There may be a few, but mostly they are used for effect, like maybe when just listening to music. The reason you don't want to use colored lights behind your display when watching a movie is that the background color will mess with the display colors, in your mind at least. Ideally, you want to use a bright white color for true bias lighting, 6500k is perfect. That bright of a white will make the whites stand out when movie viewing, and your blacks that much more blacker. I have a white rope light I got from Lowe's for 8 bucks that wraps around the back edge of my 50" display. It is not 6500k white, but does help with eye strain when viewing in a all black room. Here are some pics of galleries from other members. You can click on the following members names to see there entire gallery, I recommend it.

JJxiv1215:


Uberbot:


And Johk for the 6500k bias lighting:

[PootieThang]

I have them and they're amazing. They do have a music mode which is indeed sound activated.

[blurayuser09]

Originally Posted by liquidice

I have a white rope light I got from Lowe's for 8 bucks that wraps around the back edge of my 50" display.

Can you give a link to that rope light item? I'm looking for something like that for my computer desk as well.

I was looking at the Cyron website:
http://cyron.com/Merchant2/merchant....tegory_Code=HT

Which of these products are the ones that most people are using? I have a 50" Pioneer Kuro, and I'm not sure which would be a good choice.

Do the Cyron lights or Ikea Dioder lights have a setting for white light, among the other colours?

[Steve]

I have a Cyron kit (pics in my HT gallery) and as liquidice pointed out, I don't use the color modes for movie watching. About 99.9% of the time they stay on white. The white really helps IMO for movie watching and I recommend you get some kind of lighting for your setup, but the closer you are to 6500K the better.