The Best TV LED Light Strips

Large TV with a person and bright colours showing on the screen as well as neon vivid pinks and yellows emanating from behind the TV

Looking to upgrade your TV setup? Something as simple as Smart lighting can add a customisable and modern style to any space, to make it truly stand out.

Whether you want to wow friends around the TV in the living room, create ambience in the home cinema, add a little style to your bedroom or even kick things up a notch in the gaming room, an LED light strip is a great budget-friendly way to add a distinctive style to your space.

Neon lighting and colourful LEDs are a huge home trend at the moment, as they allow you to transform any space with the addition of light. So now you can effortlessly match the TV’s glow to the furniture, or even to the content on screen for a more immersive viewing experience.

In this Roundup Blog, we have picked out our top 5 LED lights to add a glow to your TV, ranging from budget-friendly to premium with everything in-between. So without further ado, we present our top picks for TV lighting.

Best budget light strip for under £20 - TP-Link Kasa KL430E

Tv on the wall with a purple glow coming out of it, connecting to a router in the front of the image

Price: £16.49

Length: 1m

Connectivity: Wi-Fi connected (No Hub Required)

Voice Assistant: Alexa and Google Assistant

This awesome strip can light up any space with a cost of less than £20! Not only can you create endless amounts of colours for a strip that will match any space, you can also connect it to other KASA smart devices for synchronised colour sequences all over the house.

This LED light strip also boasts an easy setup, plus compatibility with Alexa and Google Assistant for voice command capabilities, offering you a real bang for your buck. 

The only real drawback is that it is just 1m in length. Whilst this may be fine for most people, depending on the size of your TV, it may be slightly too short for some.



Best smart device compatible led light strip - 4lite WiZ

Double Bed with LED Lighting around and underneath it, LED colours are Purple and Yellow

Price: £49.99

Length: 2m

Connectivity: Through WiZ App

Voice Assistant: Google, Alexa, Siri, Samsung SmartThings

With the 4lite WiZ, not only do you have control over colours, you have control over the white tuner too!

You won't have any shortage of light with a 2m cable which is expandable up to 10m for lighting you can add to any size TV or room. In addition, these light strips have a lifespan of 25,000 hours, which is over 2000 days if you left them on for 12 hours a day! So you can enjoy the ambience for years to come.

One of the most impressive features on this smart light is its compatibility with a huge range of voice assistants, including Samsung’s Smart Things, Siri, Alexa & Google. This allows you to come home after a long day and change the lighting by simply asking.

However it's worth considering that whilst 2m is the ideal length to cover most TV’s, it may not be enough for some and therefore extensions may need to be brought, luckily these can be found on our website and are inexpensive. To grab a great deal on the extensions, click here. 




Best WiFi led light strip - Philips Hue  

A couple on the sofa watching TV, on the TV is a man with vivid lighting in their Tv and living room with colours blue and pink

Price: £67.99

Length: 2m

Connectivity: Philips Huge Bridge needed to connect via WiFi

Voice Assistant: Amazon Alexa and the Google Assistant

The Philips hue range is one of the most popular ranges globally, being hugely trendy amongst vloggers and streamers alike thanks to their vibrant colour capability and high output of 1,600 lumen.

Philips Hue Lights strips offer endless levels of adjustability as they can be cut, extended and shaped to fit any space you’re in. This is perfect for LED strips that are placed behind the TV as you can adjust them to perfectly match the size of the TV. What’s more, you can use the pieces of strip you have cut off with another base via the connector clip, so no part will go to waste.

A drawback of the Philips Hue light strip is that you will need to purchase the Philips Hue Bridge in order to enjoy the full capabilities of the lighting. However, this is a one-off purchase and then allows you to control all Philips Hue lighting via the bridge. If you were interested in buying the bridge at a great price, you can do so here. 




Best premium light strip/bar - Philips Hue Play

Two people sitting in a room chatting with right orange lighting behind them

Price: £114.49

Length: N/A

Connectivity: Philips Hue Bridge required to enable WiFi connectivity

Voice Assistant: Amazon Alexa, Apple Homekit and Google Home

The Philips Playbars are widely regarded as some of the best premium lighting on the market, and it’s no surprise when you consider the incredible glow they give off with bold and bright colours. The bar gives a different type of glow, offering more of a soft halo of light when compared to the LED light strips.  

Through your phone and the Philips hue bridge, you can easily choose from over 16 million colours, as well as 50,000 shades, so you’ll never be short on options. What's more, you can download colour sequences through ‘Philips Labs’ where there are a huge range of sequences available to choose from such as the transitioning rainbow colours.

Of course, you can synchronise your hue play bars with Philips LED light strips, Bulbs and any other Philips Hue lighting through the app on your smartphone and the bridge for harmonious colours and shades all over the home.

Not only can you control lighting through your phone or tablet, you can also set timers. Timers can be really handy when you’re on holiday or away from home, as you can set the lighting to follow the same lighting routine you usually would when you are at home, leading people to believe you are still home and potentially deterring intruders.

The only drawback of this is the price, which can be considered quite expensive when compared with other smart lighting. Plus, you will need the Bridge to be able to control lighting through your phone.

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Best LED smart light surface

Bed with Bar lighting above on the wall, pink and yellow coloured at right angle shape


Price: £168.49

Length: 300 x 35 x 20 mm (total of 6 beams and one corner included in pack)

Connectivity: WiFi and the cloud, no hub required

Voice Assistant: Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Assistant, Nest, Samsung SmartThings, IFTTT, Flic, Scout

Looking for something a little different? Why not consider a smart light surface, which uses unique beams to offer an ambient glow to your space. The beam kit works off the WiFi so does not require you to buy an additional hub of any sort, which is handy as you can work it straight out of the box.

This kit comes with 6 beams, a controller and one corner, and can be extended to 8 beams if you wish. The beams simply click together to give you creativity over how you organise your lighting, so you can create a layout that fits any space.

Not only can you control individual colours through the light bars, You can also create colourful mixed zones as well as awesome waveforms to really express your creativity and make your TV stand out.

A drawback of the light bars is the fixed size, as there is limited adjustability for shortening the bars, unlike many of the LED strips which can be cut. This means you must ensure your TV sizes up well with the bars, which could be tricky. 


 

So there you have it, our roundup of the best LED lighting for the TV. We hope you have found this blog post helpful. 

*Prices were correct and accurate at the time of publishing*

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