ORLANDO – Techni-Lux is celebrating its 25th year in operation with a technology fair and open house. The event, featuring educational sessions led by Richard Cadena and Tony Hansen, is set for Jan. 14, 2016 at Techni-Lux in Orlando from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Guests will have an opportunity to go hands on with dozens of products, vendors and exhibits for entertainment lighting, video and special effects.
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The all-in-one Laser Show control software Laserworld Showeditor 2015 comes standard with the LAN interface Laserworld ShowNET and has a ready-to-go live laser show interface as well as professional timeline-show programming capability. The software user interface is available in the languages English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Romanian, with more languages to follow soon.
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Madrix announced that Version 3.5 of its LED lighting controller for 2D pixel mapping and real 3D voxel mapping is now available for download form madrix.com. In addition to English and Simplified Chinese, the main software and its accompanying Fixture Editor have been fully localized again and are now available completely in French and Spanish.
Read More »FRANFURT – The organizers of Prolight + Sound recently issued a press release expanding upon previously announced changes in Prolight + Sound/Musikmesse scheduling and exhibition hall layouts.
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NEW YORK – When it came time to consider creating a floor-based video projection system for their facility, the management team responsible for entertaining Knicks and Rangers fans knew the system would have to live up to the legacy of New York’s Madison Square Garden (MSG), aka The World’s Most Famous Arena. It would have to be better than anything else currently being used, so they called in WorldStage among other expert consultants and fabricators.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – The first deployment of Wings Engine Raw, the triple-stream 4K media server from AV Stumpfl, was auspicious. For the main presentation area for Audi at the International Motor Show, MATRIXMANAGEMENT GmbH deployed 17 AV Stumpfl Wings Engine Raw and three Wings Engine Stage media servers. They powered the visuals appearing on approximately 700 square meters of high-resolution 3.5 mm pitch LED displays.
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DUBAI – Eclipse Staging Services purchased two Green Hippo Hippotizer V4 Taiga media servers to add to their video inventory. Simon Harris, Green Hippos User Experience / Training manager went out to Dubai at the end of September to provide the busy video crew at Eclipse with three days of Hippotizer media server training. The company has been active in the expansion of its AV solutions in Africa as well.
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SYDNEY – LD Hartley T A Kemp chose Philips Selecon and Showline LED luminaires alongside classic Philips Vari-Lite tungsten to deliver color vibrancy and consistency on a production of English Eccentrics by the University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music.
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NASHVILLE – Corner AV designed and deployed Christ Presbyterian Church’s new video projection system. The AV setup includes an Eiki LC-HDT2000 15,000 ANSI Lumens HD Widescreen Projector for the main display and an Eiki EIP-X5500 DLP Projector for confidence monitoring. Corner AV’s Bob Nickerson, who played a key role, discussed the nature of the project.
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BIRMINGHAM, AL – Metropolitan Church of God turned to 4Wall’s UsedLighting.com for a lighting upgrade that included Chroma-Q LED Color Force 48” and 72” LED fixtures. The new gear saves a considerable amount of time by trimming the need for gel changes.
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ARGYLE, TX– Already one of the leading production-services providers in the golf tournament space, GoVision LP announced recently that it has expanded its offerings by acquiring the assets of Events Cable and Sound (ECS). Pictured here, from left, is GoVision’s Chris Curtis and ECS founder Bob Bockhold.
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TOKYO – Clay Paky and PRG KK, the Italian company’s sole distributor in Japan, held a workshop at the TFT Building Complex in Tokyo Oct. 14-15. It was mainly focused on the Scenius, the Clay Paky spotlight that recently made its debut on the world market.
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