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hey I'm right Chris from seeing that and this is decree 100 watt replacement LED bulb this is a bigger brighter bulb than anything that Cree has done before with 1600 lumens worth of light output now it gets that from 18 Watts giving it a very impressive efficiency of eighty eight point eight eight lumens per watt that's great that's a very efficient bulb and that's just as good as what Cree has done before meaning that this might be destined to get Energy Star certified it's not there yet though now if you take a look at this bulb you'll see that it is noticeably bigger than the previous generation of Cree bulbs here it is next to the 60 watt replacement LED that Cree put out about a year ago you'll see that the bulb is a lot bigger but also those heat sinks are a lot bigger dissipating quite a bit more heat all right so let's turn the lights out and get our light box out here's the 60 watt replacement from Cree and then here in the middle is the 75 watt replacement that they put out a couple of months ago and here on the right we have the hundred watt replacement and you can see a pretty clear growth in the light output it's got 800 lumens than 1,100 lumens and then 1600 lumens you can see that difference you'll also see that there is a slightly less yellowy tone to the hundred watt replacement it has the same color temperature as these two bulbs are all 2700 K low end of the spectrum kind of warm tone but because of that extra brightness the yellow enos doesn't really come out quite so much it looks like a more neutral tone of light so let's get that 75 watt replacement out of there and replace it with the Philips 100 watt replacement this is a very comparable bulb to what Cree is offering they both have 2700 K color temperatures they both put out about the same amount of light that Philips bulb is 1680 in the Cree is 1600 so it's a little brighter on the Philips side of things price wise they're also very close the Philips bulb is priced 2497 whereas the Cree bulbs going to retail for 1997 that said Philips is already Energy Star certified and that means that this bulb will be a little cheaper in areas that offer energy rebates Cree isn't there yet they just submitted it and it takes a couple of months so might not be until this summer when you can get it for cheaper than 1990 but for now philips has the pricing edge in those regions here we have the two bulbs in paper lanterns here beside me I've got the philips bulb on my right and the cree bulb on my left you can see they're almost indistinguishable there are very equal in terms of brightness and color quality and you can barely tell the difference so either way you're going to get a good quality reading light or really for any household purpose all in all I think this bulb is a great addition to crease lineup of LED offerings it's got the 10 year warranty that we like so much it's got a good deal of brightness and the price point 1997 is better than most if not all of the competition with the cree 100 watt replacement LED i'm CNET's rad Chris