AUSTIN, TX – High End Systems, a Barco company, announces the hiring of Chris Ferrante as an International Sales Manager. Ferrante returns to High End Systems after spending the last two years working in the concert touring department of XL Video LTD in the UK. In his new role at High End Systems, he is responsible for the territories of the UK, Ireland, Southern Europe, the Middles East, Africa, and India.
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LONDON – HSL supplied lighting equipment and crew for Alexandra Burke's UK tour for Production North, All Night Long. It was Burke's first solo headline tour, and Phil Wiffin provided the lighting design, working with Helena Spencer's video content, Sisco Gomez' choreography and Burke's energetic performance.
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LONDON – It took more than a tornado to bring Dorothy's house from Kansas to London's West End. For the new production of The Wizard of Oz, Stage Technologies and Delstar Engineering designed, supplied and installed the control elements that helped The Really Useful Group produce the highly-technical show. (The three companies had also worked together on the production of Wicked nearby.)
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ABU DHABI, UAE – JM Rental Ltd. provided LED displays for IDEX 2011, a major defense and security related event held in late February. Working with Showtec Communications PTE LTD for RedFilo Event LLC, JM Rental provided 696 panels of Lighthouse Technologies 7 mm visual pitch R7-ER as a backdrop for the daytime opening ceremony for the 10th annual event, which was attended by more than 1,000 VIPs including Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the UAE.
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MIDDLETON, WI – Last month, ETC's Serbian distributor Studio Berar welcomed over 600 visitors to an open house at Belgrade's BelExpo Center. ETC Regional Manager for Southern Europe Fulvio Cotogni and Field Project Coordinator Davide Gabbani presented a full range of equipment, including Congo, Eos and SmartFade lighting control families, Selador LED luminaires and Source Four automated and conventional fixtures.
Read More »Wallingford, CT – Austin City Limits Live, a live-music venue that hosts the long-running Austin City Limits television show as well as 60-100 concerts and other live events annually, has taken delivery of three Robert Juliat Victor 1159 1800W followspots. The fixtures, which were supplied by Texas Scenic, made their debut at the gala opening of the new venue.
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CHATSWORTH, CA – Digital connectivity solutions provider Gefen announced its newest solution for an extra long-range extension of HDMI devices. The GefenPRO ELR Extender for HDMI with PoL offers a long-range, multi-signal method of extension up to 330-feet (100m) over just one CAT-5 cable, a significant improvement over previous solutions, which required two cables to reach shorter distances.
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YORK – When Graeme Sewell of Vortex Lighting Ltd saw the spotlight at a major industry exhibition he was determined to be the first to use it and gave Sharpy its debut with the Huge Party Band at two recent sell-out concerts in York. ‘I realised that Sharpy was significantly different from anything else on the market,’ Sewell explains. ‘We are a relatively small operation in the North of England and perhaps because of this I’ve always been a firm believer in the less-is-more approach. Sharpy fits the bill perfectly: less weight, less cost, but more power!’
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ORLANDO, FL – Alcorn McBride will introduce an enhanced feature set to the SetPlayer video playback line at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. The SetPlayer series is designed for on-set video applications, providing a solid-state alternative to server channels. The single channel SetPlayer (SP1000) has a 40 Mbps maximum bit rate and works with existing VDCP controllers. New to the line is MediaFlow; a compatible encoding software which delivers a complete workflow solution. This software provides a step-by-step method for encoding any source file to transfer it to the SetPlayer unit.
Read More »Trace Lighting's latest version of LimeLIGHT features a number of updates aimed squarely at installers working in anything from clubs to conference centres. In latest version, LimeLIGHT offers the ability to put the already touch screen friendly arrays of buttons on a separate monitor. These button panels have long been a useful part of LimeLIGHT’s playback interface for club work, being particularly suitable for controlling attributes such as colour or anything not requiring fader control. Their utility is enhanced in this release with simple touches such as the ability to change colour to highlight their function. Another feature added following feedback from installers is the ability to “Lock” the console; until a password is entered the system can only be used for playback – the programming cannot be altered.
Read More »FRANKFURT, Germany – Philips Entertainment lamps isadding a new lamp to their Platinum line-up of lamps at Prolight + Sound 2011 in Frankfurt Germany, the Philips MSR Platinum 35. The new lamp is built off their Philips MSD Platinum Reflector lamp design with a short arc and compactlamp design suited for smaller luminaires.
Read More »{mosimage}Traxon Technologies' High Resolution Media Systems, available in a variety of pixel pitches, can be combined to create a range of screen sizes and resolutions. Daisy chain topology and simple cabling help reduce installation and maintenance costs, and features include a high refresh rate and a lightweight, modular, slim-profile design.
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