When everything is running, the wall around this television comes alive with light. A 100 inch Hue gradient strip sits behind the screen and two tall light bars flank it, and all of them shift color and brightness moment by moment to follow the tones running along the edges of the picture. Fast, colorful scenes look like they would be a treat with the whole wall pulsing in step with the frame.
Putting it together took some care. The TV is an 83 inch LG G3 hanging flush to the wall on its stock mount, and that mount leaves only enough room for lighting behind the panel. The maker trimmed two sections off the strip to make it fit, and it now stops roughly three inches short of the TV's outer edge. A white soundbar sits directly under the screen, two matching white speakers sit at the ends of a wooden credenza below, and a pair of Sonos Fives handles the front surround duties.
One choice stands out to me: the maker skipped any lighting along the bottom, since a mounted soundbar there would leave almost no space for light and mostly wasted glow. That seems sensible rather than forcing something into a dead zone.
The trade-off is zoning. The strip has just 7 zones, and that limited zoning is the maker's single complaint. On a panel this large I suspect the segments show. Even so, the maker rates this arrangement a B-, a big step up from the older 75 inch strip that earned an F on the same TV.