LONDON – PLASA 2010 got underway Sunday, Sept. 12, after a surge in visitor registrations. New features to this year's show include a two-day rigging conference Sept. 13-14, but the overall focus remains, as always, on the latest new product introductions. A listing of some of the new lighting and projection products on display follows.
Artistic Licence's range of Art-Net to DMX / RDM converters, along with a selection of Artistic Licence DMX/RDM Splitters, were at the RDM Compatibility Corner stand. The company's Rail-DMX-DALI and Rail-DALI-DMX releases were also featured at AC Entertainment Technologies' New Product Section stand, and the company's Flexi-Strip self-adhesive LED strip was featured at the Zero 88 stand.
Christie is featuring its Nitro Solutions digital luminaires. The modular series of motorized moving yokes can provide up to 20,000 ANSI lumens of video projection, and, with the optional Xenon or LED lighting heads, the system can produce up to 50,000 lumens of lighting.
The Chroma-Q Color Force LED lighting range has been extended with the Color Force 12, a multipurpose fixture that provides the feature set of the Color Force LED battens range in a compact version well-suited for floor, wall or truss mounting. It is 300mm / 1 foot long, and can be used for pipe end, shin buster and wash applications. It can also be used to extend Color Force 48 and 72 LED batten installations, with minimal distance between fixtures and a output in excess of 2,000 lumens for wall washing up to 8 meters / 26 feet.
Clay Paky added to the Spot HPE, Wash and Beam fixtures in its range of 700W Alpha projectors with the Alpha Profile 700 and its new framing system. The company also introduced its Shotlight Wash, with 1500W discharge lamp washlight and 3000W Xenon lamp strobe in one device, and Sharpy, a new 170W lamp beam moving light. Also new are the Mirage QC auto-lock quick-clamping and quick-connect system and Dyna-Cue-Creator.
Clear-Com featured its intercom platform, HelixNet and an enhanced version of Tempest2400 digital wireless intercom system.
Cooper Controls launched its latest console, the ORB XF, which adds fader control for intensity channels and live submaster playback. The company also featured new products from U.K. brands Cogent (architectural LED products) and LightProcessor (lighting control products).
Eurolite is featuring its new Pixel Panel with tricolor LEDs.
GDS is featuring the LiteWare HO (High Output), which offers 80Watts of LED power, and the new TCP-IP CueSystem, a networked cue light system which launched at ProLight + Sound earlier in the year. GDS is also showing the BluesSystem and MainsSystem working lights, MotorControl – a four-way, modular motor control system, The Stage Managers Console and Mobal, a Socapex fault diagnosis and correction tool.
i-Pix is showing six new products in its BB (Building Block) range: BB1 Narrow Beam, BB2, BB2x2, BB3 and 4 Way and 6 Way Power Bars.
J. R. Clancy and theatrical technology dealer Hoist UK are exhibiting together in a partnership dubbed the "Best of All Worlds."
Kinesys is offering the new DigiHoist product range, a line of fixed speed chain hoist controllers. Digital communications allow multiple controllers to be daisy-chained together, eliminating the need for bulky multicore cables. Self-healing emergency stop connections remove the requirement for shorting plugs, and monitoring of the hoist's status means that information about hoist presence and the state of the limits can be displayed to the user, and acted upon immediately to provide Group Halting if limits are hit while moving.
Lightfactor is using its exhibition space to display products from DTS, LDR and Novalight from Italy, LightProcessor and Cogent from the UK, SFAT from France and VXCO from Switzerland.
MA Lighting released its grandMA2 software 2.0, which offers layout pool and layout view, MAtricks, auto create, NDP integration, advanced tracking sheet options, "fast call," dynamic channel faders and more.
Midiator is launching its Vision Pro console, demonstrating how it connects with lighting consoles, media servers and other show devices.
Pixled is featuring its F-6 6mm screen, a bright, lightweight 6mm LED surface that is curvable in all directions – convex, concave and horizontal/vertical, with no tools required. Offering 4000 NIT brightness, the product has an IP65 rating and is suited to indoor and outdoor use.
Robe launched a new green initiative – "Think of the Future – Consider Nature" – with new products in the Robin line including the LEDWash 600 and 300 fixtures, the MMX Spot, the 600 Plasma Spot, the 600E Spot, the 600E Wash, the 600E Beam, plus CityLine 48 and CityFlex48 fixtures.
Women in Stage Entertainment (WiSE), an organization established to address under-representation of women in the entertainment technology sector, had plans to host "Tea O' Clock" on the White Light stand from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
Wybron's Cygnus VN extends the Cygnus line introduced last year. The line now includes the MF (Medium Flood; formerly the 200W Wash) and VN (Very Narrow) products.
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