Govee debuts TV Backlight 3 Pro and Prism lights at IFA

At the IFA trade show in Berlin on Tuesday, smart lighting maker Govee unveiled a pair of flagship products it says aim to sharpen both home-theater immersion and year-round outdoor ambiance: the TV Backlight 3 Pro, a screen-matching backlight with a three-camera HDR sensor, and the Permanent Outdoor Lights Prism, a weather-rated outdoor strip that packs three LEDs into each light head. Govee said both systems will ship in late September and support Matter and the companys DreamView syncing technology for multi-device lighting scenes.

Govee described the TV Backlight 3 Pro as the companys most advanced screen-sampling system. Instead of a single camera, the image sensor includes three tiny cameras that capture long and short exposures and merge them in HDR to sample highlights and shadow detail, producing what Govee called "theater-quality picture texture." The trilens sensor feeds a revamped high-density LED strip that the company says delivers about 30 percent more brightness than previous models, 16-bit color processing and improved white-light accuracy via a five-way RGBWW integrated circuit design.

The backlight also uses Govees LuminBlend color-management algorithm and an...