WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications, provider of pioneering real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks, worked with XL Video GmbH on Daimler’s first demonstration of the Mercedes-Benz “Future Truck 2025,” the world’s first truck capable of driving autonomously.
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Barco’s RLS-W12 projector is a 12K lumens single-chip DLP projector designed for medium-sized venues and events. It offers WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) resolution, extended warping and blending and HDBaseT technology to provide video over a single Cat 5 cable. It has an optional rental frame for the rental and staging market as well.
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DUBAI, UAE – Matrix AVE were the first technical solutions company in Dubai to invest in Robe’s Pointes shortly after the fixture’s launch last year, sourcing the fixtures via Robe’s Middle East operation headed by Elie Battah. Currently based in Dubai Investment Park (DIP1), Matrix AVE was founded 16 years ago by Rajesh Pereira and specializes in producing themed events. They also supply technical production for a number of other corporate events, conferences and social events.
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NASHVILLE – More than doubling the registration total from its first year in 2011, the 2014 Touring Career Workshop (TCW), held in Nashville Nov. 24, was the busiest to date. In addition to a successful turnout for the event, led by LD/programmers Erik Parker and Chris Lisle (pictured here, L-R), TCW 2014 collected significant donations for their charitable partner, the Oasis Center, and presented the “Sammy Old Skool” Award, in memory of production professional Sam Harden.
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MINSK, Belarus – Prime Hall, a new 2,000-seat, multi tiered concert hall located inside Zamok, the biggest shopping mall in Minsk, opened earlier this year with more than 130 discharge and LED fixtures from PR Lighting.
Read More »READING, UK – St. Joseph’s College has recently refurbished its chapel with energy-efficient Philips Selecon PL LED light fixtures provided by Lancelyn Theatre Supplies. Lancelyn supplied 16 PL luminaires including 10 Selecon PLfresnel1 LED luminaires, three PLprofile1 LED Zoom (18-64 degree) luminaires and three PLprofile1 LED Zoom (24-44 degree) luminaires complete with gobo holders.
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COPENHAGEN – The Royal Danish Opera House marked its 10th season anniversary with an exterior lighting design by Royal Danish Theatre LD and technical manager Tommy Larsen. He chose 30 P-5 wash lights to illuminate The Royal Danish Opera House for each opening night of a new show.
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Blackmagic Design’s Blackmagic Camera 1.9.9 is a major software update with multiple new features for the Blackmagic URSA digital film camera, developed with input from cinematographers. New features include 80 fps 4K recording, new 3:1 compressed RAW, frame guides, slow-mo playback, CFast formatting, scrolling menus and more. Blackmagic Camera 1.9.9 can be downloaded now from the Blackmagic Design web site. Company CEO Grant Petty, pictured here, explains the details on the update in a company video.
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WARSAW, Poland — For the Professional Windsurfers Association’s PWA Indoor Windsurfing World Cup, held at Warsaw’s National Stadium Sept. 5-7, LDs Adam Tyszka and Sebastian Pachciarek used dozens of SGM SixPack pixel arrays in two separate groupings. The IP65 rating for the RGBA LED fixtures helped alleviate water ingress concerns for the fixtures placed closest to the pool.
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UFA, Russia – For Russia’s Milk Music Festival, Kilowatt Rentals and Staging provided festival LD Yan Prokofyev with an ETC Cobalt 20 desk to control the moving lights, LED luminaires, audience blinders and strobe lights used to highlight the folk singing, dancing and musical groups performing on the open-air stage structure during the event.
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