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I-X Center Contracts with Nanolumens for 22 Indoor LED Displays

I-X Center Contracts with Nanolumens for 22 Indoor LED Displays

CLEVELAND — Cleveland’s International Exposition Center, also known as the I-X Center, has contracted with NanoLumens to provide NanoWrap and fixed NanoSlim indoor LED signage. Karen Robinson, NanoLumens executive vice president of business development, made the announcement. The installation of the 22 indoor LED displays, ranging from a 30’ x 17’ flat screen to 8’ x 8’ wrap screens, is set to be complete by April 1, 2014. 

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Martin M6 Console

Martin Professional M6 Lighting Console

Martin Professional says its M6 lighting console is designed to control everything from conventional and moving lights to the most advanced media server. It incorporates new technologies with an multi-core processor, solid-state drives and custom-designed high-brightness touch screens. The M6 is capable of delivering up to 64 DMX universes directly from the console’s network ports without using external processors.

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PLSN editor Justin Lang

Take Control of the Camera Flash

Several arena tours visit the DC market during the winter.  I have attended a number of them, and I am always grateful to those that allow me in to chat with the production crew and cover the tours for these pages of PLSN. I am constantly amazed at what can be packed into trucks, unloaded in a day and torn down at the end of the night.  The lighting rigs alone are massive and give me chills of excitement every time.

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Fitz and the Tantrums on tour. Photo by Amber Stokosa

LD Chris Smith for Fitz and the Tantrums

Tour Legs: Feb. 10-18 (U.S.); March 3-16 (U.K./Europe); April 3- May 15 (U.S.)

Design Concept: “The shows in February will be one-offs, so I’ll spec out a system. The new tour design happens in April when we’re carrying gear again. We’re talking about adding more video elements and beam fixtures surrounding and encasing the band.”

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PLSN Feb. 2014 Video World by Paul Berliner

Moving Video, Moving Data

Just about a year ago, I wrote a primer on LED digitizers, which included a lengthy discussion of the processing required between the video source and the LED wall itself.  True, you simply can’t connect a video signal directly to an LED wall and expect to see a picture.  In order to create an image of the desired size, shape and aspect ratio, the wall (regardless of the manufacturer) requires proprietary video processing and a proprietary input signal, rather than a standard DVI, HDMI, or HD-SDI format.  To put it another way, the wall is looking for data — not video.

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Dataton WATCHPAX Media Player

Dataton WATCHPAX Media Player

The new WATCHPAX media player from Dataton, the creators of WATCHOUT multi-display software, is a plug-and-play standalone unit designed to be used in situations where you need content distributed to several locations but don’t need or want a computer at each location.

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