NEW ZEALAND – Earlier this summer Oceania, the biggest lighting rental company in New Zealand, invested in 24x X4 L LED heads from GLP, which went out the same day they arrived to support the British & Irish Lions’ rugby tour down under. Over six weeks they were ever present on all regional games and the three All Blacks test matches.
LOS ANGELES – ADJ has expanded its AV Series of modular LED video panels with the introduction of the new AV4IP. Offering an IP-rated enclosure design, this high-resolution panel is ideal for both indoor and outdoor use due to its impressive brightness and color contrast. With the release of the original AV6 panel, ADJ disrupted the LED video market by introducing a system that offers unrivalled affordability and usability. Since then the range has expanded to include the higher resolution AV3 and both models have proved extremely popular both for fixed installation in venues ranging from clubs to churches as well as for use by production companies supplying tours and one-off events.
LAS VEGAS -Area Four Industries America’s presence at LDI 2017 proved to be an extremely successful follow-up to its first attendance at last year’s LDI show, where the newly launched company made its debut. Its impressive booth at this year’s show was constructed from the flexible and easy to assemble LITEC Libera series truss, which made the shape of the company’s iconic number four, and featured products from its MILOS, LITEC, EXE Technology and Mobiltechlifts brands.
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HELOTES, TX. MEGA-LITE introduces the Axis Mini Grid, a compact 3X3 pixel mappable eye-candy fixture with similar features as the Axis Grid. With 9 RGBW 10W LEDs capable of pixel control for unique eye-candy effects and pre-programmed color and pixel macros, this moving head can create a colorful, punchy beam.
TOUR: Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
DESIGN: “This is my 15th year as touring lighting director/programmer for Jeff Ravitz’s design for Ringo. My most important cues: light the audience, and light Ringo! The six other musicians are all stars as well, so they are also constantly in the light of their own lekos.”
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I love when people raise the bar, and a lot of that was done this year. It has become quite evident that discharge bulbs are quickly going the way of fossil fuels. Only the old folks will still think there’s money to be made in these things. Heck, one look at the LED Engin series of light sources that Osram has shows us how committed manufacturers have become.
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The LDI exhibition returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center Nov. 17-19, and with more than 350 exhibitors using the event for some of their most significant product launches of the year, there was plenty of innovation for the 16,000-plus attendees to check out.
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Over the course of 2017, the staff at PLSN checks out every new product that has to do with the live event industry and beyond. Besides the wide variety of lighting categories we have these days for fixtures, there are great innovations in everything from touring video systems to clamps and gadgets that aid us in our pursuit of the perfect tools for our shows.
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