KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco announced that it has acquired the products, intellectual property (IP) rights and know-how of Element Labs, Santa Clara, Calif., and that the "Element Labs" brand will no longer be used. Structured as an asset sales transaction, Barco obtains all product designs, rights and intellectual property of Element Labs, without assuming the liabilities of the former company.
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MILAN – Giovanni Pinna's lighting design for the latest Vasco Rossi tour includes 41 Martin MAC 700 Profiles, 27 MAC 700 Washes, 16 MAC 2000 Washes, 10 MAC 2000 Performances, 16 Stagebar 54s and 38 Atomic 3000 strobes. Limelite of Rome provided the Martin gear.
Read More »NEW YORK – Apollo Design Technology recently made the first donation to Behind the Scenes from first year sales of the winning templates in their annual Design-A-Pattern Contest.
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SHENZHEN, China – The founder and owner of Robe lighting – Josef Valchar and Ladislav Petrek – have invested in a new LED screen manufacturing startup – VuePix – with Australia-based entrepreneur Cuono Biviano, the owner of sales and distribution company ULA.
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Read More »TORONTO, Canada – BlackBox from CAST Software has added three new partners filling the categories of media server, stereoscopic camera and network technology: Coolux, Magna BSP Ltd. and SAND Network Systems.
Read More »LONDON – The Royal National Theatre and the English National Opera have both added new SHoW DMX wireless DMX systems to their permanent lighting inventories.
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MIAMI – For The Who's performance at the The Bridgestone Super Bowl XLIV Halftime Show, the 3,055 Barco MiStrips incorporated into the custom video deck displayed arrows and other linear graphics that defied the non-linear arrangement of the MiStrips themselves. The design team used a beta version of VideoMapper, a software component to be included in an upcoming version of Green Hippo's Hippotizer HD media server software.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA – For Los Angeles' KABC-TV's live pre-Oscar broadcast, On The Red Carpet, LD Richard Brown with Architectural Media Design used six of Elation Professional's ELAR 108 RGBW LED Par cans for hosts Michelle Tuzee and Marc Brown and their guests.
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SUSSEX, U.K. – Video solutions specialist SNP Productions supplied two Catalyst V4 PRO media servers and a complete projection package to Glyndebourne Opera for their production of Knight Crew.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – For a series of live TV shows staged to select the Slovak Republic's 2010 Eurovision song contest finalist, LD Martin Kubanka once again specified Robe moving light fixtures supplied by lighting rental company Q-99.
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LONDON, Ontario, Canada – Ultratec Special Effects has named Rachelle Robson customer service representative for the Special Effects Order Desk at the company's London, Ontario facility. Robson's responsibilities will include processing orders, confirming orders, providing product and shipping quotes, providing tracking numbers and other CSR tasks.
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