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Wireless Solution Sweden Supports Students from USW

Wireless Solution Sweden Supports Students from USW

SWEDEN – The Swedish manufacturer of W-DMX™ has recently supported the students of University of South Wales in the UK, completing BSc. degrees in Live Event and Lighting Design. Wireless Solution provided Wireless technology to the final year students that wanted to integrate W-DMX™ into their final-year projects. The USW degrees encourage students to create a lighting fixture that could be commercialized – this includes specifying, designing and creating a product prototype, before presenting it in a trade-show environment, along with other engineering students.

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Christie Bridges “The Space Between” With Dazzling Showcase That Delivers a Highly Interactive Experience For Audience Engagement

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CHINA/BEIJING – The multi-award-winning Christie® Boxer 4K30 3DLP® projectors and Christie Pandoras Box media and show control servers are playing a crucial role in delivering eye-catching media contents in the Christie booth #EB1-01 at InfoComm China 2017, April 12-14. “The Space Between” demonstrates the flawless integration of Christie’s acclaimed projection technologies with advanced image processing systems.

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Atlona Welcomes Scott Smith as Commercial Regional Sales Manager for Southeast U.S.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Continuing to add proven talent to bolster its rapid growth, Atlona has hired Scott Smith as Regional Sales Manager, Commercial, for the Southeastern United States. Based near Atlanta and bringing more than 20 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, Smith will work closely with Atlona’s direct dealers, distributors and representatives to support and expand the company’s commercial business in the territory.

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ASTC USITT Venue Renovation Challenge 2017

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ST LOUIS – Entrants to the 5th annual ASTC USITT Renovation Challenge presented their projects on March 10th at the 57th USITT Conference in Saint Louis, Missouri. The challenge is designed to engage undergraduate and graduate students in real world theatre renovation problem solving.  Students work under the guidance of a faculty advisor and a mentor from the American Society of Theater Consultants. Each team selected an existing venue, developed a scope of work for improvements and presented their ideas to a live audience and Jury of ASTC members at a USITT Conference Session.

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Show Featuring Germany’s Five Eurovision Finalists Lit with GLP GT-1 Hybrid Fixtures

COLOGNE, Germany — LD Jerry Appelt designed the lighting for a live broadcast on Feb. 9 that presented the five finalists vying to represent Germany at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Appelt specified 52 of GLP’s new GT-1 hybrid fixtures for the production, which took place in the studios of Cape Cross Studio + Filmlichtgesellschaft GmbH, in Cologne-Mühlheim.

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MediorNet MultiViewer App from Riedel

Riedel Products to be Shown at the 2017 NAB Show

LAS VEGAS – At this year’s NAB Show, with an exhibition floor open from April 24-27 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Riedel Communications will unveil its latest innovations in real-time signal distribution, networking, and intercom solutions for broadcast and live performance. Riedel’s product line reflects the company’s continued support of standards and interoperability, ongoing development and expansion of software app-based solutions, and groundbreaking concept of decentralized signal routing.

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Zylight Pro-Cyc Color 350-Watt Cyclorama Light

Zylight Pro-Cyc Color 350W Cyc Light

Zylight is debuting its Pro-Cyc Color asymmetric wall washer later this month at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas (Booth C7947). Designed for TV studios and theatres, the 350-watt Pro-Cyc Color produces a soft, even field with enough output to cover 25-foot cyc walls. It shines pure white for a clean chromakey wash, and features Zylight’s Color Mode to produce millions of colors without gels or filters. Built for floor use or truss mount, the lightweight Pro-Cyc Color features solid aluminum and steel construction. Up to four Pro-Cyc Color fixtures can be daisy chained through their powercon connectors. The Pro-Cyc Color features integrated DMX operation as well as an intuitive control panel for smooth 0-100 percent dimming.

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ETC’s ColorSource Linear 4 Completes The Family

ETC’s ColorSource Linear 4 Completes The Family

MIDDLETON, WI – ETC’s ColorSource® Linear family is now complete with this week’s launch of the ColorSource Linear 4 fixture. This is the third and longest variation of the ColorSource Linear fixture and measures a full two-meters in length. Like the Linear 1, (half-meter) and Linear 2, (one-meter) fixtures, Linear 4 comes in both original and deep blue array options. Both offer a richness of color, and quality of light output you’ve come to expect from ETC ColorSource fixtures.

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Stephen Page, Nick Walton, Rob Leach, Pete Robinson and Rob Ashworth

dbn Lighting and Audile become dbnAudile

MANCHESTER, U.K. – Lighting and rigging specialist dbn is joining forces with full service event technical company Audile, to create dbnAudile. The merged company promises to combine a wealth of experience, skills and talents across the disciplines of lighting, audio, rigging and creative video all under one roof in central Manchester. Pictured here, from left, are Stephen Page, Nick Walton, Rob Leach, Pete Robinson and Rob Ashwort.

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ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium Honored with PIPA Award at Prolight+Sound

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FRANKFURT, Germany – The ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium received the Prolight + Sound International Press Award (PIPA) for “Best Product of the Year” in the lighting control category.   Based on voting by over 100 journalists from specialized publications, the award was presented on April 6th at the Prolight + Sound show. “This award is a tribute to the ChamSys design ethos,” said ChamSys Managing Director Chris Kennedy. “ChamSys has been built on giving the end-user as much freedom and flexibility as possible, because we respect the creativity that’s inherent in the design process.”

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