Ambient Light

Ambient Light (Pro) surrounds the video with a soft, blurred glow of whatever colors are on screen, updated in real time. It's the bias-light effect that makes a dark room feel cinematic — and a genuinely smart move for OLED screens.

What it does

The screen edges fill with a live, blurred wash of the on-screen colors that shifts as the video plays. In a dark room it pulls your eye into the picture and reduces the harsh contrast between a bright video and a black border.

Easy on OLED

When filling the screen with a mode isn't an option — you want the original aspect ratio, or the bars are baked into a protected stream — you're left with static black bars parked in the same spot for hours. On OLED that's the classic uneven-wear trap: the bright picture area ages while the black-bar regions stay untouched, and over time that difference can etch in as visible banding.

Ambient Light keeps those edge regions gently lit and constantly shifting with the picture, so the whole panel ages evenly instead of just the middle. It's the safer way to live with letterboxing on an OLED when a mode can't help.

DRM content

Ambient Light is automatically disabled on DRM-protected video — Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and similar — with a small "DRM Detected" note. This isn't a bug: browsers block reading pixels from encrypted video, so the glow simply can't be generated there. Every other UltraWideo feature still works on those streams.

Good to know

Because the effect is generated live from the video, it's at its best in a dark room on content the browser can read — most of YouTube, Twitch, and the open web. Pair it with Enhance Quality for a richer picture overall.