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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d3 Technologies’ d3 r11.3 software release supports 16K resolutions and includes new features such as Enhanced Video Capture, Video Input Patching, Audio Output Patching and Improved SockPuppet DMX Integration. The new d3 r11.3 can now be downloaded by existing d3 customers from the company’s website, and new products will be shipped with the new release installed.
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AUCHTERARDER, Scotland — The 40th Ryder Cup, held at the Gleneagles Hotel near here Sept. 26-28, got an elaborate video assist from Creative Technology that included 21 LED screens, each ranging in size from 8 to 100 square meters. CT also provided a 16 by 3.5 meter projection screen for the Media Centre and extensive gear and crew for the event’s video processing and broadcast needs.
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