LONDON – PLASA announced that Peter Heath has been named to the new role of Managing Director, starting April 11, 2016. He joins PLASA from Roland Corporation, where he worked in various senior roles for nearly 20 years.
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BELLEVILLE, NJ – Arena Seating noted that its managing director, Niall Gaffney, will now serve as general manager of the New Jersey division of Arena Americas, April 2016. With each of the Arena Americas divisions geographically split into four areas, Gaffney will be responsible for managing and delivering growth across the Northeast Division.
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Barco is expanding its line of HDF projector for large venues and events with a 3-chip DLP, 30,000-lumen model that offers WUXGA resolution. The HDF-W30LP FLEX projector uses a high-brightness laser phosphor light source that promises a low total cost of ownership, partly through an extended working life.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Coemar products will be on display at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany April 5-8, Stand F67 Hall 3.0.The company will feature its expanding Reflection LEDko series of fixtures. Pictured here is the company’s Reflection LEDko TM White 3200K, designed to serve as a substitute for traditional profile moving head.
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PPR Lighting’s XPar 150 features an advanced 150W LED lamp, offering full RGBW color mixing. Weighing a mere 6.2kg it is easy to handle and with its IP67 rating has been designed for outdoor use, thanks to its high-intensity die-casting aluminum chassis. The XPar 150 is also supported by a host of features. These include Colour Temperature of 2700K-10000K (linear correction); Beam Angle 30°; Field Angle 60°, 0-100% linearly adjustable dimmer and 0.3-20 fps strobing. The new product is shipping now.
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AMSTERDAM – Belgian lighting designer Carlo Zaenan of QBE crafted a rig that included 256 Robe moving lights for the 2016 leg of the recent ‘Symphonica in Rosso’ concert series. The six performances were presented by Dutch singer Marco Borsato at Amsterdam’s 17,000 capacity Ziggo Dome.
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Blizzard Lighting’s Motif series includes the Motif Vignette, which comes with eighteen 10-watt Quad-Color LEDs. The fixture’s cast aluminum housing allows for natural convection cooling, so there are no fans needed, making the Vignette well suited for sound-sensitive applications. The fixture also comes with dual mounting brackets, an IP rated AC power input cord with cable cap, 3-pin extended IP rated DMX in/out plugs and a set of IP rated DMX in/out cables. They are available in either black or white colored housing. Each fixture also comes with a deflection shield to reduce outward view of LEDs.
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LOS ANGELES — Rapper Pitbull performed his latest single, “Bad Man,” on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Feb. 16, the night following the Grammys, where Pitbull also performed (and won an award). Fallon’s show, normally based in New York, was filming in Los Angeles Feb. 15-19, and Pitbull was joined by Robin Thicke, Joe Perry and Travis Barker along with a cadre of dancers and some hyperkinetic lighting looks achieved with the help of Elation Professional’s new ACL 360 Roller effect lights.
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WINSLOW, U.K – Winslow Public Hall, home to amateur dramatic group The Winslow Players, was updated with new lighting supplied by Oxford-based Lancelyn Theatre Supplies, now part of National Stage Technology. The new rig includes Philips Selecon PL LED luminaires, chosen for their energy effiency, bright output and color changing capabilities.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – LSC Lighting Systems will be exhibiting at the 2016 Prolight + Sound exhibition on booth C66 in Hall 3.0 level 0. The company is enhancing its Mantra Lite console with new software to be released at the show, and as a complement to the Mantra Lite, a new Mantra Wing will be previewed. Due for release in June, the wing adds an additional 12 fixture faders and 10 further playbacks as well as an extra DMX 512 Universe hardware output.
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KENT, UK – Robe continues its support of students involved in the technical and creative aspects of lighting, and once again made nearly 40 moving lights available for the 2016 Concert Lighting Project at Rose Bruford College in Kent, UK. This practical module offers second years on the BA (Hons) Lighting Design course at the leading UK theatre and performance college the opportunity to explore and engage in non-theatre lighting genres like live music.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – RC4 Wireless will debut its RC4 LumenDimPix and RC4 LumenDimIO at Prolight+Sound 2016, Hall 3, Level 0, Stand C91. The LumenDimPix functions as the company’s RC4Magic MMXpix, but with LumenRadio CRMX inside. The LumenDim10 is a CRMX transmitter/receiver to go with RC4 LumenDim devices.
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