ORLANDO – At InfoComm Booth #3601, Barco is presenting four new LED display products, with a 6.1-million pixel wall featuring four pixel pitches animated with moving imagery. Pictured here is the company’s new X-Series product, which comes with pixel pitch options of 1.29, 1.58, 2.5 and 4mm.
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ORLANDO – At Booth 3635, InfoComm 2017, British image processing manufacturer Calibre is previewing their first multi-channel 4K seamless scaler-switcher, the HQUltra4000. The unit promises to enhance image quality, perform fast and reliable switching and allow for routing flexibility within a single 3RU box. The company is also featuring its HQView600, LEDView700 and HQUltra700 range of 4K scaler/switchers.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites is providing the lighting package for Jason Aldean’s They Don’t Know tour, which features five automated, hexagonal pods that move to various positions. Production designer Chris Lisle began working on the production in late 2016, where he sat down with the Aldean’s management to coordinate the looks of the show.
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LONDON – For Steel Yard London, a two-day dance music event staged in a temporary venue erected within Victoria Park, Hackney, HSL-supplied lighting gear lit Swedish DJ duo Axwell^Ingrosso’s set. Show designer Andy Hurst specified a floor-and-roof lighting package with more than 180 fixtures.
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SINGAPORE – Christie is showcasing its MicroTiles along with its Mystique projection-mapping capabilities at Asian Attractions Expo 2017, taking place at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from June 14-16, 2017. The company’s MicroTiles are also featured at other exhibitors’ booths at the show, including the Falcon Treehouse and TEA booths.
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MIDDLETON, WI — ETC recently broke ground on the latest expansion to their headquarters building in southern Wisconsin, a multi-story 75,000-square-foot addition. A rendering of the project is included here. The new addition is scheduled to be fully operational by spring of 2018.
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SHANGHAI – Christie is featuring a variety of advanced visual technologies NAB Show Shanghai, taking place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre June 13-15, including projection-mapping, real-time tracking ID-tags controlled by the Christie Pandoras Box media server along with the company’s Captiva Series 1DLP laser phosphor projectors and more.
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LONDON – For the first time, George Orwell’s classic 1984 was read in its entirety at Senate House, University of London on June 6. Having worked on numerous bespoke performances, WL was called upon to provide the lighting, sound and video equipment, supporting a lighting design by Robbie Butler that made use of Martin Aura XB, CORE Colour Point IP65 Battery Uplighter, ETC Source 4 Series 2 Lustr+ LED Profiles and Philips SL PAR150 Zoom RGBW Washes.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Bozzuto Management Company, a leading real estate management company, recently held an employee award ceremony at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Brett Angstadt of Showtime Sound lit the event with more than 120 Chauvet Professional LED fixtures.
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NASHVILLE – Elite Multimedia added Elation Artiste DaVinci LED luminaires to its inventory. Needing a high-powered LED solution that provided minimal power consumption, the new 270W Cool White LED luminaires were also chosen for their diverse features and design creativity, and are now in stock at the Nashville office of the live event and touring production provider.
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KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco is noting significant demand for its UDX projectors among rental companies. embraced by the rental community. The prospect of working with 4K laser phosphor projectors is proving attractive, particularly as the projector was developed with key players from the market itself.
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BURBANK, CA.— Bexel is upgrading its lighting inventory, adding 300 Litepanels Astra 6X LED panels. The new lights will be key components in Bexel’s ongoing support of customers who require turnkey lighting solutions in any location at outdoor sporting venues. As announced at the 2017 NAB Show, the next-generation Litepanels Astra 6X LED panel is 50 percent brighter than the first-generation Astra light and six times brighter than Litepanels’ original 1 x 1 panel, which broke new ground in the lighting industry when it was first introduced.
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