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hey I'm seeing that's right Crist here with the new Phillips 60 watt replacement LED and this is a very inexpensive bulb just five dollars off the shelf at Home Depot and here at launch for the first 90 days you can get it at 241 pricing so kind of a heck of a deal if you've been holding out for good led pricing even at that low price point it's a pretty strong performer it puts out over 800 lumens of light at a power draw of 8.5 wats giving it an efficiency of 94 lumens per watt that's very nice stacks up well against the competition and I turn it on here you can see a nice yellowy 2700 k color temperature and I also like that the bulb is nice and round has plenty of downward light projected so if you're using this in a bedside reading lamp that'll do the job just fine now some of the downsides here this boat does have a shorter lifespan than a lot of its competitors many of those promised to last 25,000 hours that's about 22 years at three hours per day that this one will last you 10 years at that same rate also Phillips makes no promises when it comes to dim ability they rate the bulb explicitly as non dimmable saying just don't even bother trying to dim it we did and actually found that you can dim it using both new and old dimmers but your mileage may vary sometimes it flickered sometimes it's strobe even so if you want something for a dimmer switch I'd go something else the bottom line though is that this is a pretty outstanding bulb at less than five dollars a piece if you've been waiting to try out LEDs if you've been holding out to switch your whole house over this might be the right time to get in thanks for watching and be sure to check out the rest of our light bulb coverage at cnet com foresee that appliances I'm right Chris you