LOS ANGELES – For visuals that ranged from vintage scenery and film clips to futuristic time travel, the video production crew for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (the Oscars) used 34 Hippotizer HDs and a total of 53 discrete active outputs. Hippotizer's UberPan multiple display software component controlled video feeds for over 70 projectors.
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Lehigh Lighting will be introducing their latest lighting control console at USITT in Charlotte, NC, the Rendition II. The Rendition II console includes both hardware and software upgrades to the original Rendition console series. Hardware features include 1.6 GHz processor, 2 GB compact flash hard drive, dual monitor and touch screen support, four USB ports, and fader wing support.
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Time Square Lighting has launched two new theatrical-style LED fixtures to the market, the BD202 and the BD203. Both fixtures produce the equivalent output of a cenventional 75-watt halogen MR16 fixture while using just 21 watts of power a piece.
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CARDIFF, U.K. – For the Welsh National Opera production of Die Fledermaus, LD Howard Harrison is using eight Chroma-Q Color Force 72 LED battens as part of the broader lighting rig provided by White Light. The U.K. tour of the production followed an initial run at the Wales Millennium Centre.
Read More »TUSTIN, CA – Video Applications, Inc. (VAI), a WorldStage company, has secured GSA's Advertising and Integrated Marketing Solutions (AIMS 541) contract for A-to-Z Project Management; Intra-Agency Coordination; Pre/Post-Event Site Survey(s); and Audio, Video, Lighting, Scenic and Production Services.
Read More »NEW YORK – Stagetec USA, a subsidiary of Salzbrenner Stagetec MediaGroup, started 2011 with the opening of an office in New York City. Located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the new office has been equipped with an Aurus and a Crescendo console and several Nexus systems.
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CINCINNATI – The School for Creative & Performing Arts (SCPA) installed four Robert Juliat Topaze followspots in Corbett Hall, its 750-seat auditorium. SCPA offers a comprehensive arts education with a college-prep curriculum for students K-12 in the Cincinnati Public School District. Its graduates have performed on PBS with the Cincinnati Pops, and the school served as the setting for a MTV reality series.
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CALGARY, AB – Daktronics rental partner GoVision provided a large-screen LED video wall and ribbon board displays to support the 2011 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic, held Feb. 20 at McMahon Stadium. Both gear and crew weathered the outdoor conditions and single-digit temperatures.
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BOSTON – 4Wall New York provided lighting equipment to the Boston Pops and longtime conductor Keith Lockhart for 39 Holiday Pops performances that took place in Symphony Hall over a 19-day span.
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SYDNEY – From 1936 to 1970, the Trocadero, or "Troc," for short, was Sydney's main big band orchestra venue. Gone for four decades, the venue returned for a four-day period at Sydney Town Hall. The festival offered visitors a huge dance floor and swing music performed by Sydney's all-girl Sirens Big Band. LD Matthew Marshall and programmer Peter Rubie used a Jands Vista T4 running Byron beta software to control a rig that included close to 50 moving lights plus LED and conventional gear.
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CHICAGO – Reed Rigging recently acquired its first XLNT CyberHoist motion control system, including two InMotion3D control systems and eight XLNT CyberHoist CH500 half-ton intelligent chain hoist motors, for its rental inventory.
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ENSCHEDE, The Netherlands – LumenRadio named Rolight theatertechniek BV as exclusive distributor for their CRMX products in the Netherlands. Rolight's other brands include MA Lighting, Philips, Zero88, State Automation, Coolux and their own Admiral Lighting.
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