Furthermore, the individual LEDs on the strip vary in brightness with some definitely not as bright as the others; the analogy I would use is that some of the LEDs look like a lamp that has 4 bulbs and all 4 bulbs are working, whereas some of the LEDs look like a lamp that is supposed to have 4 bulbs but 2 of them are burnt out.

I received these LEDs free of charge for evaluation & review purposes.

Otherwise, these are great LEDs for a great price

I was a little skeptical at first about how bright or.nice these LEDs would look behind my TV

If I had to guess, these strips are made up of pieces that are factory rejects, where the really bad/non-operational LEDs get cut out and tossed, and even the marginally bright LEDs are left on smaller strips to be re-soldered together to sell to you and me as a purported full strip.

If I had to guess, these strips are made up of pieces that are factory rejects, where the really bad/non-operational LEDs get cut out and tossed, and even the marginally bright LEDs are left on smaller strips to be re-soldered together to sell to you and me as a purported full strip.

More importantly, however, the quality of the individual LEDs in the replacement strip was much better--the individual LEDs were much more consistent in brightness from one to the next.