Responsive backlighting is one of the best ways to improve your Apple TV setup. It can also be a costly endeavor. Lepro offers a more affordable solution: the Lepro STV1. The new product is launched today.
Lepro STV1 uses an ultra-wide camera to provide responsive backlighting to your TV
The main selling point is that Lepro STV1 doesn’t need an HDMI sync box that costs several hundred dollars. Rather, it’s a “new camera-based TV backlight designed to make home entertainment more immersive by extending on-screen color into the room around the TV.”
Lepro explains how the ultra-wide camera monitors the colors on your TV to reflect and extend them with color-matching backlighting:
To capture the colors of an entire TV screen – up to 85 inches – at a short distance using a single camera, STV1 uses an ultra-wide-angle fisheye lens with a field of view greater than 180 degrees. Correction of leprous lenses
applies distortion correction and region mapping to the captured image, helping to restore the fisheye camera view into a more accurate representation of the screen. This allows the STV1 to more accurately identify color areas and match the backlight to the correct areas of the TV picture.
Additionally, the Lepro STV1 touts what the company describes as AI lighting features.
Beyond screen sync, STV1 expands to broader entertainment scenarios with LightGPM™ 4 AI Lighting Designer. Users can create lighting scenes from text, voice or image messages, making it easy to generate team-inspired lighting for game day viewing, tailoring to a movie night ambiance or customizing the room for different occasions.
Additionally, the lighting system turns off when the camera detects a blank screen.
The Lepro STV1 is available in two versions. There is an 11.8-foot-long version for 55- to 65-inch TVs priced at $89.99. STV1 is also available in a 16.4 foot length version for 75 to 85 inch TVs for $109.99.
Overall, the Lepro STV1 seems like an interesting and more affordable way to bring immersive backlighting to your Apple TV setup at home.
The Lepro STV1 is available for purchase starting today.
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