ORLANDO — InfoComm 2013 took place at the Orange County Convention Center here, with 937 exhibitors showing off products and services within 470,000 square feet of exhibition space from June 12-14. This year’s event drew a record-setting 35,126 visitors, up 2.5 percent from 2012.
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Read More »DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Barco LiveDots, a Barco company, has entered into a strategic partnership with Dubai-based audiovisual expert Venuetech. Venuetech will be the exclusive distributor of LiveDots’ full LED portfolio in Saudi Arabia and a non-exclusive reseller for the GCC (Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates). In a company statement, LiveDots said it is “confident that Venuetech will help to expand its business in the Middle East market.”
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NASHVILLE — PixelFLEX, an LED solutions company based here, named sales and marketing veteran Monty Rains as its chief operating officer. Rains will be responsible for expanding sales channels, forging strategic partnerships and building structure and strategic processes to assist with the company’s growth.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs is supplying the complete video equipment package – LED screens, cameras and crew – for the Backstreet Boys reunion tour, which celebrates 20 years of the group with all five original members. The Backstreet Boys kicked off their “In A World Like This” tour May 25 in China.
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LAS VEGAS — Along with 2013’s double-weekend sellouts for the Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March and Coachella in April, the Electric Daisy Carnival, set for June 21-23, is also due to set a new attendance record, with Insomniac Events reporting the sale of 345,000 tickets — 115,000 per night — up from total ticket sales of 320,000 last year.
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TORONTO – CAST Group has released the first few details of forthcoming new release of wysiwyg R31, due to launch within the next few weeks. For features, most significant is the new Material System in Shaded Views, allowing material properties to be applied on a per-element level to any object in the file, adding more realism to real-time visualization, meaning more screenshots and fewer renderings. New material properties include Specular Level, Specular Gloss, Specular Color Source and Light Reflection, delivering ‘really virtually real’ images to enhance the creative process.
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NASHVILLE — The Nashville Sounds enhanced the fan experience during a recent night game by using lightweight and flexible LED video curtain panels manufactured by PixelFLEX. With more than 3,000 fans in attendance for Music Industry Night, a popular promotional event scheduled several times a season that features a pre-game musical performance, the Sounds kept fans in the action throughout the game by delivering video and player information across the PixelFLEX panels in right-centerfield.
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LONDON – Nick Gray of London-based creative visual design practice Renegade worked his lighting magic on the latest Eddie Izzard “Force Majeure” arena tour, which has just finished a three month tour around the UK and Europe. It’s the first time that Gray – well known for his work in the fashion world and as LD for rockers Kasabian – has designed lighting for the ‘surrealist’ funny-man, a task on which he collaborated closely with Izzard’s Artistic Director, Sarah Townsend.
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BASEL, Switzerland – Within five months of taking on the distribution of SGM in Switzerland, the long-serving ASL Electronic has already introduced another stalwart company, Winkler Multi Media Events, who have made a major investment in the Danish company’s LED portfolio.
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LONDON -White Light supplied lighting equipment and solutions for the Journey and Whitesnake 2013 UK Arena Tour. The popular bill featured the two bands, along with musical guest Thunder, together in concert for the first time in the UK. For the tour, which opened in Belfast and finished in London, White Light worked closely with Production Manager Rob Kern and LD Kevin “Deuce” Christopher, supplying a full production service including lighting fixtures, cabling, rigging and power distribution.
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