Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm really quite pleased with this product. Were it not for a couple of aberations I would have given 5 stars without hesitation. First the PROS: The system was fairly sraightforward and was easy to apply to my flat screen (40" Samsung), taking approx. 30 minutes less were it not for the aforementioned abberations which i'll get to in the "cons". The power / remote sensor LED strip conviently plugs into the USB port of the TV, make sure to start with this strip for proper placement of the remote sensor (I went for line of sight for assured connection with the remote). Also, make sure when connecting the LED strips to line up the connection pins designated (Red,Blue,Green, Ground) exactly all the way through or the completed array won't light up. The lighting effect is bright and clear, with various choices as to color (16), adjustalbe (9 levels) of brightness, and dislplay mode ( 4 ). All in all an exceptional presentation of lighting effects, with a user friendly versatile remote. CONS: The LED strips came wound on a film style reel. Four strips two 30" two 18" including the power/remote strip and three connector strips (all male ends). Here is wherr the CON comes in, The LED strips should have all had Female connections at both ends. My set had the power strip with pins at the distal end meaning I could not use a connector strip to connect to the next LED strip. I connected the strip directly to the 30" strip which had dual female connections. A connector was used to connect the next 18" strip. For some reason the 18" strip Also had a male (pinned) connector at the distal end so I was again forced to connect to the last 30" LED strip directly which took some twisting and repositioning. I can only guess that I was issued incorrectly configured strips during the packaging process. The result wasn't very aesthetic but the system functioned flawlessly so all's well that ends so. Minus 1 star here for my inconvience. In summation: a great and fun lighting system, that I would reccomend and purchase again. Update: Received comment from Bason concerning the issue with male and female ends on the LED strips. It was in somewhat broken english but I'll do my best: it seems the strips are shipped with both male and female ends so that they can be connected on the shipping reel their packaged on. The four pins on the distal end of the strip can be pulled out to give a female connection at both ends thereby enabling the use of the male/male connector strips. This would have been useful information to have had, say oh, in the instruction manual. Bason said that customers had given 1 or 2 star reviews because of this issue and they planned to update the instructions over this omission. Good idea! Hope this is helpful info.