i am using the diodeer too.. 4 white strips...
kinda pricey i guess.. but should be cheaper than cinemaquest's solution tho.

agree with the fatigue thing and the screen looks somewhat darker.

Well I've been doing a lot of looking around and also found the CinemaQuest Ideal Lume. It's 90USD rite? Where did you get yours?

I have read that some people also use rope light but I'm sure it's not 6500K. I found some LEDs for sale on RS Malaysia. Osram LEDs that are rated at 6500K but I've not come across anything that says D65. I thought of making the LED strips myself. Of course I will post some pictures and tips if I make them.

My wall is slightly cream in colour so will that matter? Of course I can paint my wall white if it helps the PQ(with the bias lighting).

Again, I am purely doing this to cheat my eyes so that the blacks look better on my Sammy. I use it mostly at night so I'm hoping bias lighting will do the trick.

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Added on March 4, 2010, 8:51 amI saw them in the catalog. Cost RM199! For 4 small white strips. I don't mind the price but my tv is 50" so it might be too small for it.

This post has been edited by DemonTweakZ: Mar 4 2010, 08:51 AM

buy 2 strips then.

how much $$ to fit the 50" if using cinemaquest?

Wow! 2 packets of dioder will set me back RM400 weh.. hahaha..
I'm not sure about the cinemaquest but on the website, it says USD80. Not sure about shipping tho and how anfieldude got his.

I bought mine 2 years ago and its still working ok. Most likely, will get some replacement bulbs this year. Its great, I am using 2 behind the display. Colour temperature that I measured using my spectrophotometer was 6500K +/- 200. Also more importantly the actual white point measured was very close to 0.3127, 0.33. That's important. I tried using a normal Philips energy savings lite that was rated at 6500K but I measured something like 8000K. And the white point measurement was way off.

Did you buy it off the CinemaQuest website or did you find it here?

Hi,

may i know where can buy these LED strip? is that just use the normal power socket?

Off the website. They ship internationally.

Why not use white CCFL lights? Coolermaster CCFL is only about rm40 for 2 tubes. Even if we buy 2 packs it'll only cost rm80. Then get a rm10 universal adaptor n set it to run 12V n voilà!

TS! Have you consider installing a T5 light at the back of your TV? It looks like a thin and small version of our common pendaflour light. I'm currently using one right now.

This post has been edited by night: Mar 19 2010, 09:37 AM

I have tried out the T5 lights. I will post some pictures later. My first impression is that the blacks really seem to be darker! Wonder if the temperature of the lights make any difference at this point.

The colour temperature is off and more importantly x,y reading is nowhere close to D65 white.

Oh really? But will it matter because my wall colour is cream. As it is, I see an improvement on the black levels.

Do post a pic of it. Really want to learn from others. I find the T5 more practical to use. If the light got burned, all I need to do is just get a new set of tube and get them change.

T5 Photo.... pls...

So as I said I would, here's my bling'd out TV..

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Added on March 31, 2010, 6:49 pmI bought my china made T5s for 20 a piece near my place. Not bad la. I don't think I have such good eyes to notice any difference in PQ (if any) if I were to use 6.5k or these unrated ones.

This post has been edited by DemonTweakZ: Mar 31 2010, 06:53 PM

Wow .. nice! Like how the wall is not completely smooth so there's that wave/shadow effect! Great mod!

The T5 really make the LCD look more focus..

i don't think the waves on the walls will be noticeable, guess pictures not doing justice to it..

Yeah, can't really notice the "waves". But with the lights on, it definitely looks so much nicer. Next TV to get will definitely be a Philips!