GoKawiilReactive backlighting is one of the best ways to enhance your Apple TV setup. It can also be an expensive endeavor. Lepro is stepping up with a more affordable solution: the Lepro STV1. The new product launches today.
Lepro STV1 uses an ultra wide camera to provide reactive backlighting for your TV
The key selling point is that Lepro STV1 doesn’t need an HDMI sync box that costs several hundred dollars. Instead, 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 colors on your TV to mirror and extend with color-matching backlighting:
To capture color from an entire TV screen – up to 85 inches – from a short distance using a single camera, STV1 uses a fisheye ultra-wide-angle lens with a field of view greater than 180 degrees. Lepro Lens Correction
applies distortion correction and zone mapping to the captured image, helping restore the fisheye camera view into a more accurate representation of the screen. This allows STV1 to identify color zones more precisely and match the backlight to the correct areas of the TV image.
Additionally, the Lepro STV1 touts what the company describes as AI lighting features.
Beyond screen sync, STV1 expands into broader entertainment scenarios with LightGPM™ 4 AI Lighting Designer. Users can create lighting scenes from text, voice, or image prompts, making it easy to generate team-inspired lighting for game-day viewing, match a movie-night mood, or personalize the room for different occasions.
Additionally, the lighting system turns off when the camera detects a blank screen.
The Lepro STV1 comes in two versions. There’s an 11.8-foot length version for 55- to 65-inch TVs that retails for $89.99. STV1 also comes in a 16.4-foot length version for 75- to 85-inch TVs that retails for $109.99.
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