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Christie to Play Key Role at SIGGRAPH 2017

Christie CP4230

Christie to Play Key Role at SIGGRAPH 2017

LOS ANGELES – Christie continues its partnership with the ACM SIGGRAPH annual conference, supplying projectors and displays for sessions at the SIGGRAPH 2017 event, July 30 to August 3, in Los Angeles. Specifically, Christie CP4230 projectors (pictured here), Christie Boxer 4K30 projectors, and Christie Roadster projectors will form critical components for the informative keynote and panel sessions to ensure the utmost visual experiences as artists and creators showcase their work.

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FOR-A HVS-490 Video Switcher

FOR-A HVS-490 Video Switcher Now Shipping

FOR-A’s latest addition to its line of HANABI video switchers, the HVS-490 HD/4K-UHD unit, is now shipping. Offering an extensive feature set in a compact unit, the new HVS-490 production switcher offers 4K-UHD and 3G capabilities, and is designed for use in any live environment, including mobile shoots, events, and in-house corporate productions. Numerous customers in both North and South America have already purchased the new FOR-A switcher, including houses of worship, video equipment rental companies and event spaces.

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Analog Way Announces HDBaseT 4-Play Support On Four Midra Series Models

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Analog Way has announced HDBaseT™ enhancements to four systems based on its popular Midra™ product family.  QuickMatriX – H, Pulse2 – H, SmartMatriX2 – H and Saphyr – H now offer improved connectivity and HDBaseT™ (HDBT) support for the SI market.  They will maintain the same key software features users value for live events, fixed installations, houses of worship and educational facilities.

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Chauvet Professional Captures Spirit of Peru at Juan Diego Florez Benefit Concert

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LIMA, PERU –– He has been called the “heir to Pavarotti.” Dazzling crowds with his immaculate, crystal clear voice, he is universally regarded as “one of the greatest tenors in history.” Still, even as his celebrated career has taken him from La Scala to Royal Albert Hall, Juan Diego Florez has kept his heart in Peru. So, when his homeland was struck by a series of natural disasters this spring, the famous operatic star stepped up and announced that he would hold a benefit concert to help those afflicted by these events.

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Mega-Lite XL LED Strobe RGB

Mega-Lite XL LED Strobe RGB

Mega-Lite’ XL LED Strobe RGB has a three segment control SMD LED light. Equipped with 1260 .80W RGB LEDs, this fixture is an intense strobe unit that can strobe in mixed and primary colors. It is assembled with segment control, allowing a variety of random strobe and chase effects specially when used in numbers. The unit can be also be addressed to be used as three pixels giving you pixel mapping capabilities. To add to all of these amazing features, the unit also makes a perfect wash light.

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DMH-200

Futurelight DMH-200

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Futurelight’s DMH-200 promises to serve as a moving head with a powerful LED, first class equipment and wide zoom. The beam angle can be widened from 7.5° to 40°, making the fixture well suited for use on a rock stage or in a theater.

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Colour Sound Enjoys the Best of The Kooks

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UK – West London UK based lighting and visuals rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied a bespoke built touring lighting ‘specials’ package to alt rockers The Kooks for their recent  “The Best of … so Far” tour. This UK leg of the tour closed with a high profile gig at London’s Alexandra Palace for which additional lighting production was added, together with IMAG video.

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CPL at Glastonbury 2017

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UK – CPL (Central Presentations Ltd) enjoyed another glorious Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, supplying projection to Arcadia’s giant recycled metal spider, which hosted their phenomenal “Metamorphosis” show. The west Midlands based rental specialist also supplied a lighting and rigging package which was utilized across the lively Shangri-La late night area.

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Robe Pointes to Carl Cox at The HRBR Project

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NYC – It’s always exciting to be involved in a new event and the positive buzz, energy and hashtags spread as infectiously as the groove of the very first HRBR Project shows, a new music venue presented by RPM on Governor’s Island in New York Harbor. Kevin Mignone, owner of KM Productions, the company charged with producing the multi-week event, was determined to deliver the biggest and boldest show possible for the new outdoor space and brought on long-time collaborator, Mike Gionfriddo of Total Production Design (TPD), as the lighting designer to create a design with maximum impact. 

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Modular Rigging Solutions from Global Truss

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LOS ANGELES – The Prolight Concepts Groups portfolio has been further enhanced with the addition of a comprehensive range of interchangeable rigging solutions from Global Truss. The T piece drop arms and extensions, modular U frames, top bars, clamps and stirrups provide the perfect solution for creating vertical lighting fixture arrays, and present an adaptable, flexible system that offers an extra dimension to stage designs, and is also compatible with Global Truss ‘PL’ series Trussing.

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