Just curious if anyone thought that the ambilight technology really made the viewing experience better or is more of a novelty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight
saw amiblight in demo and wasn't particularly impressed....maybe I didn't give it enough time or under the right conditions.
In my living room, I place a 40watt T6 lamp behind the TV, facing the wall. It is a light you would use on a piano to light the music. It provides just enough back light to relieve the set from the otherwise dark wall in back. It is a screw in fluorescent, though I had been using one of the daylight balanced incandescents, which didn't last long enough.
Poor man's ambilight? sure, why not? It does reduce eyestrain.