Lightware USA will showcase four new products from Hungary-based Lightware Visual Engineering at InfoComm 2016. They include a new matrix switcher; a 4K, TPS and HDMI 1.4 input board; an HDMI distribution amplifier; and 4K TPS I/O boards. Pictured here is the DA2-HDMI-4K-Plus-A. Lightware USA, the US sales and support office for Lightware products, will be exhibiting in Booth C4819 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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LONDON – From touring productions to festivals and corporate events, Colour Sound Experiment has come a long way from the company’s early years as a supplier of early moving lights to dance parties and raves. As one of the first companies to invest in intelligent light fixtures in the UK, Colour Sound continues to operate a firm policy of investing in the very latest products on the market to keep the warehouse stock list bang up to date. It comes as little surprise then that the company has chosen to invest in a number of Robert Juliat Merlin 2.5K HMI Followspots.
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Ayrton’s IntelliPix-XT, which joints the company’s XT Series of fixtures, offers nine RGBW multichip LED emitters arrayed in a 3×3 matrix and uses 126mm diameter optics to produce 2° beams. The combination of emitter and 126mm optics with a next-generation power supply unit results in over 95% efficiency, ensuring IntelliPix-XT can run continuously at full power without any loss of performance.
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The new Mega-Lite Tuff Baby P-60 is an LED lighting fixture that’s weathered for outdoors and can still be used indoors. This compact IP 64 rated unit packs a punch with 4 quad RGBW 15-watt LEDs. The addition of white LEDs allows for pastel hues that cannot be achieved with RGB LEDs alone. It has a 8º beam angle and also comes with a removable diffuser that creates a 30º diffused beam angle. The Tuff Baby Q-60 has 3-pin XLR DMX connectors and a weather seal screw type power connection. The fixture has a double mounting yoke for simple rigging or ground stacking. It is controlled via DMX 512, featuring 7 channels, audio trigger and master slave control options.
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Mega Systems, Inc.’s new Dicolor Phantom Panel is a new range of vivid LED displays designed for outdoor production. The product line includes 3 different pixel pitches to accommodate differing viewing distances, including 4.8mm, 5.9mm and 6.9mm. This product uses black face LEDs for a high contrast display. Each Phantom Panel has an aluminum casting on the bottom of the panel to keep the modules from making contact with the ground. This feature also helps protect the LEDs during on-site assembly. Phantom Panels also have a double locking pin to make assembled panels secure during setup, and with one push, the button releases for easy tear down.
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NEWARK, NJ – Pete’s Big TVs (PBTV) once again supported BET’s broadcast of Black Girls Rock!, having been involved since the inaugural broadcast six years ago. An industry leading turnkey video production company serving clients worldwide, PBTV’s team, led by vice president Guy Benjamin, worked closely with production designer Anne Brahic, principal of Lucki Designs, Inc. and screens producer Laura Frank, principal of Luminous FX, to supply the ideal gear for the video-driven production design.
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Blizzard Lighting’s Weather System EXA updates the company’s popular Weather System offering with 6-in-1 LEDs and wireless control so that users can control their own light show completely cord free. Along with RGBAW+UV color mixing, this lighting package includes independent fixture swivel and tilt positioning, a wireless rechargeable battery powered footswitch, an adjustable T-bar lighting stand and carrying case.
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NASHVILLE — The 18th annual Grammy Block Party, hosted by country music artists The Warren Brothers, was offered for free to Recording Academy members and $50 for guests. It drew close to 1,000 to Cumberland Park from 4:30 to 10 p.m. on May 10 and featured the Cumberland River as a backdrop. Erik Parker, production designer with Chris Lisle Lighting Design, lit the live performances at the outdoor event with a rig that included new and classic fixtures from Martin, including Martin Atomic 3000 LED Strobes and classic MAC Auras.
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Alcorn McBride’s V16Pro, to be unveiled at InfoComm 2016 June 8-10 in Booth N1037 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, builds on the company’s top of the line controller and follows the release of WinScript Live 4.0 for PC and Mac.
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MONTERREY, Mexico — For Bisoü, a nightclub that opened earlier this year, Elation’s Mexican partner, Adimsa, worked with architect Filipao Nunez and club owners/brothers Victor and Emilio Califa on a lighting system that includes an assortment of Elation and ADJ gear including ACL 360i, Rayzor Beam 2R and Sniper 2R fixtures.
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SAN REMO, Italy — Padua, Italy-based pianist Paolo Zanarella helped promote the 2016 San Remo Music Festival by hitting a few high notes earlier this year — on a piano hoisted some 50 feet (15 meters) into the air at the San Remo Casino (Casinò di Sanremo). LD Gian Marco Maccario from Pico Service used Clay Paky fixtures to light the one-night event.
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KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco announced the opening of its new headquarters in Belgium on May 27. Located at the Beneluxpark in Kortrijk, the 230,000 square meter ‘One Campus’ is a circular building wrapped in glass and surrounded by green spaces. It’s also connected to three other state-of-the-art Barco facilities.
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