Ushio America’s Xebex brand expands with a new short and medium throw followspot, the Sai-300. This LED followspot is portable in size and designed for ease of use, making it well suited for applications including houses of worship, school, ballroom, and multipurpose venues.
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Ushio America’s new HPL Super Life (SL) extends lamp life to 3,000 hours, 50 percent longer than other long life versions on the market.
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Christie’s Pandoras Box 6.0 media server, featured at the 2016 LDI show in Las Vegas Oct. 21-23, has been updated to let users split the workload of a project more easily. Other new features include workflow improvements with more functionality from within the preview window, and enhancements to Widget Designer, helping users benefit from custom user interfaces.
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DALLAS – InLight Gobos’ new mobile friendly website, inlightgobos.com, promises faster, easier navigation and ordering through mobile devices. The site gives users access anywhere at… Read More »InLight Gobos Updates Website with Mobile-Friendly Features
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LAS VEGAS – At Hakkasan Group’s Jewel nightclub, which opened this year within the Aria Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Dublin- and London-based Audiotek designed a lighting rig that includes Robe Pointe, DLX Spot and ColorStrobe fixtures.
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LAS VEGAS – Doughty Engineering, based in Ringwood, Hampshire, U.K> and Mount Juliet, TN, will be featuring its new Articulated Carriage at the LDI show this week. Visitors to stand 1946 will see the new product which Doughty has added to its Studio Rail 60 range and which has been designed with film, tv and theater in mind.
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INDIO, CA –– Desert Trip, a two-weekend, six-day extravaganza that ran from Oct. 7-9 and 14-16, featured top rockers including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters, and the Who. The event was produced by Goldenvoice, the company that runs Coachella and is owned by AEG, and took place on the same festival grounds, making the festival’s nickname, “Oldchella,” all but inevitable, given the average age of the rock legends performing there, most of whom started their careers in music more than 50 years ago. Syncrolite noted how its fixtures were used for Roger Waters’ visual design.
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IRVINE, CA — Jimmy Buffett’s “I Don’t Know Tour” ran from April 16 to Oct. 22 and featured a lighting design from LD Steve Hoover, who had designed and directed Buffett’s shows for years. On this trek, Bandit Lites supplied a rig that included Martin MAC 2000 Washes and MAC Auras, Vari*Lite VL 3000 and VL2500 Spots, Philips Showline SL Nitro LED strobes and GLP impression X4 S LED fixtures, with a grandMA1 Full for control.
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MINNEAPOLIS – On Sept. 18, the Minnesota Vikings kicked off their first home game of the 2016 NFL season at their newly constructed home field, the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. To honor the groundbreaking season opener, a special Minnesota themed halftime event was orchestrated to invigorate fans and bolster hometown pride. The plan was to pay tribute to late hometown popstar and lifelong Vikings fan, Prince. The halftime show tribute would include a visual montage of Prince’s career highlights projected digitally across the stadium field as the Minnesota Orchestra and gospel group, The Steeles performed Prince’s iconic hit, Purple Rain. Quince Imaging provided the in-stadium projections.
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LAS VEGAS – Zylight, a provider of LED lighting solutions, was named the exclusive distributor of the LDDE line of theatrical and specialty lighting in North and South America. Manufactured in Austria and known for high output and pinpoint control, LDDE lighting instruments are used at many of Europe’s theaters and opera houses. Co-exhibiting with distribution partner USHIO, Zylight will showcase the LDDE product line during LDI 2016 at booth 2329.
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DALLAS, TX – RMG is launching its MAX series of customizable LED display solutions for indoor and outdoor use. The new MAX series extends the company’s heritage in visual display solutions, which began more than 35 years ago when the company launched its first LCD display screens.
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LAVEEN, AZ — For the World Classic Rockers’ recent show performing hits from the late 1960s through the 1980s at the Corona Ranch and Rodeo Grounds outside of Phoenix, John Garberson, owners of Creative BackStage, deployed fixtures from Chauvet Professional including Rogue R2 washes, Maverick MK2 Spots and Strike 4 fixtures. The band performed on a Stageline 260 stage.
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