{"video_id":"kT1yOKlt-pM","title":"Bias Lighting (Ambient Backlighting) as Fast As Possible","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2018-05-06T14:58:16Z","duration_s":321,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.2,"text":"thanks for watching techwiki click the subscribe button then enable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.2,"end_s":9.599,"text":"notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos it seems","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.759,"end_s":14.799,"text":"pretty uncommon to come across something that's both aesthetically pleasing and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.08,"end_s":20.72,"text":"practical i mean unlike the pink lamborghini i have here in my garage","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.92,"end_s":25.6,"text":"all those RGB memory modules you bought for the inside of your pc","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.039,"end_s":31.519,"text":"aren't really all that useful even if you 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subscribe button then enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos it seems pretty uncommon to come across something that's both aesthetically pleasing and practical i mean unlike the pink lamborghini i have here in my garage all those RGB memory modules you bought for the inside of your pc aren't really all that useful even if you use the flimsy justification of oh but they warn me my CPU is hot by turning red but what if i told you there was a way to trick out your workspace that also has practical benefits i'm talking about bias lighting and that doesn't mean a fancy browser extension that highlights articles and social media posts with a political agenda though that would be pretty neat bias lighting is simply light that's placed behind your display and is a very common way that hobbyists make their computer and home theater setups really stand out on those websites that feature nothing but glam shots of personal entertainment stations i mean that backlighting makes it look so dramatic and artsy don't you think well even if you could take or leave the look considering biased lighting for your setup makes practical sense for a few reasons first of all some users report that it reduces eye strain and while it might seem counterintuitive that adding more light would make things easier on the eyes the idea is that your computer screen is often much brighter than your surroundings especially if you're not in an office environment with oppressively bright fluorescent bulbs that means that your eyes have to be constantly adjusting between the brightness of the screen and the relative darkness of what's behind it leading to eye strain and a feeling of fatigue bias lighting is supposed to help normalize the amount of light entering your eyes without overdoing it and even if eye strain doesn't particularly bother you bias lighting can also allow you to get the best possible picture out of your display you see you can partly relieve eye 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