LONDON — In addition to the Gottelier Award, given posthumously to Pasquale “Paky” Quadri, founder of Clay Paky, and accepted by Pio Nahum, pictured here, a number of manufacturers were honored for product innovation at PLASA 2014. They included (with products in parentheses) Clay Paky (Mythos), Elation (Sniper), Philips Vari-Lite (VL4000 Spot), Philips Strand Lighting (Emergency DMX Bypass Switch), GDS (ArcLamp), RC4 Wireless (DMX4dim Series 3), Neutrik (XIRIUM X) and Robe (BMFL). This year, the optional Gold Award was also presented, to LumenRadio for its CRMXchip. The awards ceremony was held Oct. 7, 2014.
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LONDON – The organizers of PLASA announced a new three-day format for the 2015 event, which is set to return to ExCeL London from Oct. 4-6, 2015. Also in the works: a new floor plan and an expanded educational focus.
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coolux recently released a free demo version of their Pandoras Box software. The demo software, which can be downloaded from the official coolux website, provides users with a free way to gain experience with the company’s real-time software. The new Pandoras Box demo version can be used for a period of 60 days.
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LOS ANGELES — The refurbished set for the long-running entertainment news program, Entertainment Tonight, includes two new video walls with an assist from Vista Systems’ Spyder X20 for image processing.
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LONDON — The industry stepped up at PLASA 2014 to care for its own by supporting Behind the Scenes UK, the new charity that will provide financial assistance to entertainment technology professionals in need due to serious illness or injury. Through its raffle and other charitable donations, the charity received close to £40,000. Pictured here is White Light’s John Simpson, who also serves as chair of the Behind the Scenes UK Board of Trustees, with Amber Etra, winner of the Third Prize, a £500 hotel voucher. The Second Prize (£1,000 Amazon gift card) went to Phil Hurley of Stage Sound Services Ltd in Cardiff. The First Prize was won by an American – Jerome Dunn of StageLight in Texas.
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BILLERICA, MA — Broadcast Pix named Piper Digital, Torrance, CA, as the company’s manufacturers representative. Based near the Hollywood and Burbank video production community, Piper Digital’s territory includes California, Arizona and Southern Nevada.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Canada — For the Fall-Winter 2014 edition of Vancouver Fashion Week, held at at Queen Elizabeth Plaza here Sept. 15-21, Showmax Event Services used lighting gear from Chauvet Professional and affiliated company Chauvet DJ to help draw attention to fashion designs from around the world.
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Building on the momentum Elation Professional created with the company’s Satura Spot LED Pro, the company has announced the next in the energy-efficient Satura Series, the LED-based Satura Spot CMY. It is designed to serve as a high-powered LED spot luminaire with zoom, CMY color mixing and dual gobo wheels.
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