It really depends on what effect your looking for. The strip has a look that is somewhat between a string and a rope light. These look great for outlines and pump out a lot of light. The only issue is that not much light wash is given back onto the house and this is where RGB floods come in handy. For me i found it better this way as it gave me much more control of where the light was.
The LED piixel strings (Super strings here) i found to be great for things like bushes, mega and mini trees and things where you want the light to wash and be viewed from all angles.
The LED rectangular and square nodes are great for roof fill ins and using for things like coro stars.
These are only my own suggestions after using these lights in 2010, everyone will have there own ideas on how to best use the different types of RGB elements
Below is a video of my RGB display this year and how i used the different types of available RGB lights
1: For the outlines of the garden, roof and windows i used standard non digital RGB strip controlled through a DC controller.
2: For the gutters i used the digital RGB strip (like the CCR) to help give the illusion of the whole house being all pixels, I also used the digital strip for both the mini and large matrix
3: For the roof tiles i used the rectangular RGB modules
4: For the spiral tree i used the pixel strings
5: And then finally used 12 RGB floods across the house to give light wash back onto the house.
All the strip was mounted on electrical 25mm conduit and then attached to the roof, the light dispersion was great as the viseo shows and I did slightly angle the strip lights towards the audience
Video quality is not the best but you can get an idea of some of the different types of RGB lights used
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