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Philips Lighting’s VLZ Profiles are Picture Perfect for South Africa’s Idols

Philips Lighting’s VLZ Profiles are Picture Perfect for South Africa’s Idols

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Philips Lighting, today announced that its latest lighting fixtures are playing a key role in enhancing the quality of the television pictures for the current series of South Africa’s televised talent contest, Idols. Delivering crisp backlight beams and a high quality key light, the LED-based new Philips VLZ Profile fixtures from Philips Entertainment Lighting are providing a quality of light output that enables even more finely color-balanced television pictures for the latest series.

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Green Hippo Ensures that Lady Antebellum Looks Good

TAMPA – Lady Antebellum, with support from Kelsea Ballerini, is a formidable world tour offering. And SRae Productions with the help of Clear All Visuals was the team tasked with ensuring that the video & lighting lived up to the performers’ expectations. Matt Geasy of Clear All Visuals specified two separate setups, each with a pair of Hippotizer Boreal Media Servers. Both setups were used to feed the LED screens and each one was triggered depending on the performer, switching between two or three outputs.

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The Naked And Famous Take Brixton

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LONDON – When award-winning New Zealand electronic act The Naked And Famous (T/N/A/F) came to London in October at the end of a successful festival season, Entec was delighted to supply the lighting equipment for their special one-off show at the 1,700-capacity Electric Brixton. Liam Griffiths of Stage Techniques has been the band’s lighting designer since they emerged from Auckland with their first major single ‘Young Blood’ in 2010. “I went out on a European tour with them that year and we all hit it off from the start,” says Liam. “I’ve been doing it ever since. They’re a fantastic band to light.”

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d3 Technologies Grows Its APAC Footprint with Grand Opening of Redline’s New Office in Shenzhen, China

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LONDON – Redline, the Beijing-based d3 Sales Partner (Reseller), has expanded with a new office in Shenzhen, China.  The grand opening featured the official launch of d3’s gx range of media servers and Notch generative real-time visual effects in the APAC region. Redline’s Shenzhen office will enable the technical solutions specialists to provide greater support and customer service to a growing roster of clients in South China.  It also establishes a higher profile for the d3 product range in the region.

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CHAUVET DJ To Showcase New Eve Series Fixtures, Along With Atmospherics and Washes At LDI

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LAS VEGAS – A collection of powerful new par washes and atmospheric effects designed to offer cost-effective design solutions for the event lighting market are among the innovative offerings that will highlight the CHAUVET DJ booth (1415) at LDI 2017. Covering a range of color options, the new Eve units include the 130W tri-color Eve P-130, the 140W variable white Eve P-140 and the 150W ultraviolet Eve P-150 UV.

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FLEX Theatre at Carroll College Upgrades to Elation LED Lighting System

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HELENA, MONTANA – The theatre program at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, has been producing wonderful productions for the last 35 years, in spite of entertainment technology that is at least that old. The program recently updated their 120-seat FLEX Theatre with a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient Elation Professional LED lighting system that opens up all new possibilities for student creativity in the new theatre space. Formerly housed in an old gymnasium with a lighting rig made up of antiquated Fresnels, scoops, and ellipsoidals, the theatre department’s move to a new location gave the program the opportunity to reimagine the space using new technology.

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TMB Celebrates 400+ Years of Pro Cables Assembly Experience

LOS ANGELES – In a modest ceremony this week at TMB Los Angeles, the 10-year anniversaries of three of the company’s cable assembly technicians were celebrated.  All three are part of a distinct companywide group of professional, highly-skilled cabling technicians, of whom TMB is justifiably very proud.  Also a matter of great pride at TMB is its Pro Cables division’s worldwide cabling staff of over 50, with an average tenure of close to eight years, representing over 400 years of combined experience!

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HARTING Media Event 2017

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Elgin, IL – HARTING held its annual media event on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at North Central College in Naperville, IL. This year’s event focused on a business update from the company and several key initiatives – including IIoT initiatives, a new industry-changing campaign, and a special announcement from HARTING and the college.

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Luxium Launches Ziba, a Wireless PAR Fixture

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Portland, OR-based Luxium Lighting is introducing Ziba, a compact, battery-powered, long-life, and wire-free luminaire created for event producers. Equipped with a Luxium six-channel LED engine, Ziba is designed to offer both full-color adjustment and selectable white CCT settings with the best efficacy available resulting in a small and smart 3.5 pound event light that can run at the full brightness of over 1500 lumens for more than 11 hours.

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TV Academy Honors ARRI ALEXA Camera System with Engineering Emmy®

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LOS ANGELES – At the 69th Engineering Emmy® Awards Ceremony in Hollywood, the Television Academy recognized ARRI with the most prestigious television accolade for outstanding achievement in engineering development for its ALEXA digital motion picture camera system. On October 25, 2017, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, actress Kirsten Vangsness, who presented the award, said: “The ALEXA camera system represents a transformative technology in television due to its excellent digital imaging capabilities coupled with a completely integrated postproduction workflow.

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Venuetech New Elation Professional Distributor for the Middle East

MIDDLE EAST – Elation Professional is pleased to announce that Venutech Audiovisual & Lighting Systems (www.venuetech.ae) has been appointed the exclusive distributor for Elation Professional products in the Middle East. Venuetech has been a leading provider of professional products and services to the entertainment industry in the Middle East since 2003 and has seen immense growth since its founding. Headed by one of the Middle East market’s most experienced and esteemed personalities, Nour Assafiri, Venuetech’s team of industry professionals is focused on all aspects of the audio, video and lighting market, from sales to technical support.

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CHAUVET Professional Showcases Expanded Ovation Series At LDI

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LAS VEGAS – CHAUVET Professional’s Ovation series is taking the color mixing magic of its RGBA-Lime LED system to new places. At the upcoming LDI show, the company will be debuting the industry’s first full-color RGBAL Fresnel and house light fixtures. Joining them at the Ovation booth (1415) will be other groundbreaking products, including a variable white Fresnel and ellipsoidal.

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