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The difference between watching a movie on a television and watching it in a cinema is partially screen size, but mostly ambient light. A cinema screen fills your peripheral vision with color and contrast while the room around it reflects the same tones. The Govee TV Backlight 3 Lite replicates that effect by capturing the colors on your TV screen in real time with a camera and projecting them onto the wall behind the set. Amazon currently has it at $69, down from its regular $89, the lowest price this backlight system has reached.

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The camera captures the colors at the edges of your TV screen continuously and sends them to the LED strip behind the set, which extends those colors onto the surrounding wall in real time without any compatibility issues with streaming services, games, or video sources. The fish-eye correction function addresses the distortion that camera-based backlights typically produce at the edges of the frame, expanding the effective capture range and delivering more accurate color matching along the sides of the screen rather than just the center. The upgraded chip provides stronger processing performance than the previous generation, which keeps the color response fast enough to feel synchronized rather than lagging behind the action.