This is based on a Philips invention for their TVs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight) however, the difference is th

This is based on a Philips invention for their TVs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight) however, the difference is that this HTML5 video doesn't occupy most of the users vision. Since these TVs are high-end (and thus large) and are viewed at a distance the picture fills the majority of the screen. However ambilight as a fraction of the screen that's much closer to my face felt very distracting. If the effect was more subtle it might be better, but especially bright colours like reds were pretty distracting.