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It's great to see the Philips Ambilight concept democratized (I hope Philips doesn't have any applicable patents here), but the fact that this requires the vide

It's great to see the Philips Ambilight concept democratized (I hope Philips doesn't have any applicable patents here), but the fact that this requires the video source to be a Mac / Windows / Linux PC is going to cut the potential audience way, way down.

matmann2001 13y ago
I actually made a Standalone version of my own. All it needs is a composite video signal, so you can use it with any type of video source.
- Taniwha 13y ago
  that doesn't really help me - I have an HDMI-only home setup - multiple HDMI sources switched by the AV receiver drive a single TV, I'd have to somehow create a parallel composite switch from all the video sources - Bunnie Huang's NeTV can almost do this (and with a nod and a wink one could hack the fpga to do it) so the technology is available to an enterprising hacker - whether you can make a commercial product that does this without licensing HDMI (or licensing and still making it open source) and without getting sued is debatable
  - matmann2001 13y ago
    All the devices that connect to my TV are HDMI as well. Put a splitter/converter after your AV receiver and you're good.
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snogglethorpe 13y ago
Reading the site FAQ (http://lightpack.tv/faq http://lightpack.tv/faq), it sounds like the problem with making a "just read the video stream" implementation is the complexity and (surprise, surprise!) prohibitive cost of licenses required to support HDMI...
antiterra 13y ago
> (I hope Philips doesn't have any applicable patents here) I hope the same, but this looks extremely similar to what Philips did with amBX for PCs. I also know that Philips was headhunting earlier this year for an in-house counsel position centered around pursuing licensing opportunities with companies who might be infringing on their lighting IP. This one looks similiar: "Analyze competitors products through reverse engineering efforts to investigate instances of possible third party patent infringement." - http://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/job.htm?jl=869372458&paoIdKey=NDA= http://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/job.htm?jl=869372458&pa...

matmann2001 13y ago

I actually made a Standalone version of my own. All it needs is a composite video signal, so you can use it with any type of video source.

Taniwha 13y ago
that doesn't really help me - I have an HDMI-only home setup - multiple HDMI sources switched by the AV receiver drive a single TV, I'd have to somehow create a parallel composite switch from all the video sources - Bunnie Huang's NeTV can almost do this (and with a nod and a wink one could hack the fpga to do it) so the technology is available to an enterprising hacker - whether you can make a commercial product that does this without licensing HDMI (or licensing and still making it open source) and without getting sued is debatable
- matmann2001 13y ago
  All the devices that connect to my TV are HDMI as well. Put a splitter/converter after your AV receiver and you're good.

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snogglethorpe 13y ago

Reading the site FAQ (http://lightpack.tv/faq http://lightpack.tv/faq), it sounds like the problem with making a "just read the video stream" implementation is the complexity and (surprise, surprise!) prohibitive cost of licenses required to support HDMI...

antiterra 13y ago

> (I hope Philips doesn't have any applicable patents here) I hope the same, but this looks extremely similar to what Philips did with amBX for PCs. I also know that Philips was headhunting earlier this year for an in-house counsel position centered around pursuing licensing opportunities with companies who might be infringing on their lighting IP. This one looks similiar: "Analyze competitors products through reverse engineering efforts to investigate instances of possible third party patent infringement." - http://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/job.htm?jl=869372458&paoIdKey=NDA= http://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/job.htm?jl=869372458&pa...