Elgato LED Strip | Is It Worth It?
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Elgato is offering their own streamer-friendly LED light strips. Jean-Luc tests them out and sees how to compare to Philip's lightstrip.
Elgato continues their line of lighting products designed for the at-home streamer with the Elgato Light Strip, their take on RGBW lights. At a price of $60 USD, these offer competition with leading competitors like Philips, whose lightstrip runs $80. So let’s take a look at how Elgato stacks up.
What Comes in the box
The light strip itself runs a length of 78.74 inches, offers a brightness of up to 2000 lumens and the color range of 3500 - 6500 K. For comparison, Philip’s light strips run the same length, has a lower lumen output of 1600, but offer a wider color range of 2000 - 6500 K. In short, Elgato offers a bit less color range but is brighter than the Philips.
Setup
The setup is pretty straightforward. Simply apply your light where you want it. I went with placing it behind my computer desk, and then you’ll need to install the Elgato control center app, either on your phone or computer. Sync the lights to your wifi and you’re good to go. I did encounter an issue where after setting up the lights and the control center on my windows desktop would keep crashing every time I pulled it up. But after a fresh reinstall, I haven’t had any issues.
I prefer controlling them on my phone anyways because you can save six sets of colors as favorites for easy switching, which you can’t do on the desktop version. However, if you happen to own a stream deck, you can program that to work with your light strips. You can set up a power button, color presets, and adjust brightness and temp. It's pretty neat but kind of a bummer that you need the stream deck if you want to set up presets using your desktop. At least the phone app is still an option.
Flicker-Free
One of the big selling points of these lights is that there are flicker-free. Typically LED lights can flicker when shown on camera and you’ll need to adjust your shutter speed to reduce this. You can see this happening here with the Philips light strip. Meanwhile, Elgato’s do not. This makes these a better choice if you're using these lights to decorate a studio or the background of your streaming setup
Outro
If you’re someone like me that likes decorating your space with RGB lights, the Elgato Light Strip is a pretty easy recommendation from me. They are good quality, easy setup, and brighter than the offering from their main competitor Philips, in addition to being $20 cheaper. If you're looking for some LED strips, I would definitely consider these.
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Very illuminating, Jean-Luc! I know which LED light strip I would buy. Great vid!
Back to back banger vids
very helpful. looks more than a toy and cable management looks better on theses strips, rther than on rgb fans !
Will these make me better at video games?
@StressfulMage
Ай бұрын
Yes
Hello, very good video. I'm just looking for lighting for my setup, but where did you buy the support for your microphone? Because I have the same one but on a base. Thanks!
Saw some Fallout NV in the B roll footage. Good taste.
Wow, great!
I feel like a few would agree but I think Jonathan should react to the guns In Hunter Call Of The Wild.
I was hoping that they replicated the colours on screen on the wall behind the monitor. Is that even a thing?
@MichalBrat
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. I bought them from a company called Govee, not worth it. Installation leaves a lot to be desired and the color reproduction (at least on my OLED TV) is way off. It is more disturbing than immersing.
@christophertaylor8624
3 жыл бұрын
Hyperion 🔥🔥
@kaislate
2 жыл бұрын
@@christophertaylor8624 I agree. Hyperion is the way to go. Everyone likes to point out that it doesn't work if you use built in smart tv apps since there is no HDMI signal to capture but honestly... If you are using built in apps on your TV you're not at this level.
Wow couldn't be more obvious that this is a sponsored video 😆
What speakers are those on your desktop?
@a_t_
3 жыл бұрын
Audioengine a2+
Why don't elgato and corsair just do a whole ass collab so everything can just run on ique?
But any of these light strips react to the contact that is being projected in the tv/monitor?
@GadgetGekko
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, check out the Govee Smart LED Light Bars 😀👍
But, what are "inches"?
Unless it matches the colors on your screen you can get the same for like $10 on Amazon
@liam4184
Жыл бұрын
not if you want it to work with apple homekit. And cheaper amazon ones tend to not be as bright or colour accurate
These do not compare at all at what philips can do though
I'll stick to merkury. 15 dollars for the same product lol.
I ordered a similar $20 product on eBay and it came with a remote that alters the color in different variations ... which is no difference from what you show here.
Yes! Nzxt has better options!
@NecroMorrius
3 жыл бұрын
As long as they don’t catch fire
I found one that was like 30 bucks and it does everything this does
@bigmike1547
3 жыл бұрын
Link
@PauloR2T
3 жыл бұрын
Link
Why didn't you just say they're 2m long?
@RingoFreakingStarr
3 жыл бұрын
Cus freedom units.
Not addressable. Non starter.
$60 that’s not bad
Why does this guy have such a "wet" voice
@bigmike1547
3 жыл бұрын
😭dead
@king11456
3 жыл бұрын
YOOO😭😭😭
My boy playing Fallout NV
First
@marcford9564
3 жыл бұрын
No
@dumbproduction13
3 жыл бұрын
No
@caonerdozo
2 жыл бұрын
No
Too much BS FILLER: IT AINT WORTH THE PRICE!
We all need LGBT lights
@ToxicGamer3000
3 жыл бұрын
Uh ha ha
Elgato = overpriced