Ambilight has become a familiar sight on Philips televisions, and the manufacturer introduced a new upgraded version of its system at IFA last year. No more LEDs, but true pico-projectors, now show the image shown on the television on the wall behind it. We will test the 65 inch Philips 65PUS8901 with Ambilux.

Philips has been bringing televisions with the Ambilight feature to the market since 2004. Through the use of lightstrips mounted on the rear of the television, the atmosphere of the image presented on the television is also visible on the wall. The first generation of Ambilight used CCFl lamps on either side of the display, but soonthereafter the switch was made to leds and alternate variations of the Ambilight system were brought to market that not only had strips on either side, but also on the top and the bottom of the television.

At the end of last year, Philips TV - a brand name which currently belongs to TP Vision - announced the next generation to this system. Ambilux no longer uses leds that provide a continuation of the ambiance image on the wall through a few sections, but chooses to opt for a system that uses a whopping 9 pico projectors, that project the actual image displayed on the television onto the wall. We gave the Philips 65PUS8901 a look.