[mortenjorck]

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]

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]

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]

All the devices that connect to my TV are HDMI as well. Put a splitter/converter after your AV receiver and you're good.

[snogglethorpe]

Reading the site 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]

> (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&pa...