Philips' Ambilight is no more in this country

Philips once made a huge fuss about Ambilight, a feature on its superb flat-screen TVs that created ambient lighting around the edges. This supposedly increased viewing comfort -- I don't know about that, but I really liked it.

Now I get the word that Ambilight is dead, at least in the United States. That may or may not be related to this news, but it's a shame regardless.

Here's Ambilight in action on a TV I recently had on loan from Philips, partly so I could -- insert irony here -- write all about Ambilight: