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WorldStage Serves Up Immersive Visuals for Upfront for The CW Network

The CW Upfront for The Vampire Diaries

WorldStage Serves Up Immersive Visuals for Upfront for The CW Network

NEW YORK — Valencia Production Partners (VPP) produced the high-energy 2011/2012 upfront for youth-oriented network The CW with support from WorldStage companies Video Applications, Inc. and Scharff Weisberg Inc. VPP, which has staged upfronts for The CW since its debut seven years ago, moved the venue to the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center where the young actors associated with the network’s returning and new primetime series were joined by immersive visuals.

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JuceBox from Juice Goose

JuiceBox from Juice Goose

Juice Goose’s JuiceBox is designed to serve as a solution for those looking for more power distribution options, particularly those who don’t have racked equipment. Since a single outlet on an extension cord isn’t usually enough, Juice Goose is introducing its new JuiceBox 6, a power distribution box that can be set on the floor far away from a wall outlet, in the middle of a stage or anywhere else where AC power is needed. The company notes that it’s like “having a rack mounted power strip without the rack.”

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Kylie Minogue on tour, photo by George Masek

Kylie Minogue Tours with Support from Solotech, MDG

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Kylie Minogue’s 77-date, six-month Aphrodite – Les Folies World Tour 2011 visited 28 countries before wrapping up recently. The tour’s lighting, video and sound supplier for the European and North American legs, Solotech, provided MDG’s TheONE and Ice Fog QTM units for atmospherics, at the request of LD, Nick Waterhouse.

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TV One MX-5288 8x8 DVI Matrix Switcher

TV One MX-5288 8×8 DVI Matrix Switcher

TV One’s new MX-5288 is an 8×8 DVI Matrix Switcher that allows distribution of eight DVI-D (w/o HDCP) sources to eight devices independently or all at the same time. With the MX-5288, all video paths are buffered to prevent cross talk and 480p through 1080p HDTV signals, plus VGA (640×480) through WUXGA (1900×1200) signals are accepted as valid inputs and outputs.

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Million Dollar Drop on GTV 9 in Australia

LD for TV Shows in Australia Using Clay Paky Sharpy, Alpha Spot 1500 Fixtures

MELBOURNE, Australia — Rohan Thornton, head of lighting for GTV 9, has been specifying the Clay Paky Sharpy and the Alpha Spot 1500 fixtures — when they’re available, that is. “On all productions I now instantly specify 16 of each model — I would ask for more but that’s all there is available for hire,” he said, noting that “they are becoming so popular I can’t get hold of them.”

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