Product News

Blizzard Lighting’s vertical fogger, the 1500W AtmosFear Hex Jet, can send bursts of fog up to 25 feet in the air, and these plumes are set aglow with a dozen 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs.

Chauvet Professional’s Ovation E-260WW promises a level of brightness and output that exceeds an HPL 750W ellipsoidal fixture, yet gives users all the advantages of LED fixtures, including a 50,000-hour LED source life to lower maintenance costs.

Elation Professional’s Fuze Series of dynamic LED wash luminaires makes use of single-lens RGBW COB LEDs for an extremely homogenized field of light. The fixture series also offers a wide palette of colors, making the Fuze Series a promising lighting solution anywhere a wash of high-quality colored light is required. The Fuze Wash Z350 is pictured here.

Since the joining the Laserworld Group in the beginning of 2016, a lot of development has happened at tarm: Not only have several new laser systems been developed and published, but their processes have been streamlined and optimized. With the launch of their new website, tarm clearly focuses their core products and services. The products section provides technical details on the new show laser systems and the laser show section provides details on the laser show services tarm and partners within the Laserworld Group can offer.

City Theatrical announces the launch of a new RGBI QolorFlex LED tape developed for professional lighting designers who often need deeper blue accents, backgrounds, and shadings in set lighting.  City Theatrical’s RGBI LED tape alternates a 5050 RGB chip with a 450nm indigo chip, giving extra powerful, deep blue output.

Blizzard Lighting’s Blok 2 uplighting fixture comes with a pair of high output 25W RGBW + UV 5-in-1 COB LEDs and 30° and 60° lenses. The combination promises impressively bright color mixing capabilities. The built-in, rechargeable Intelion lithium-ion battery and 2.4Ghz AnyFi wireless control let users cut the cord and place these fixtures anywhere they are needed.

Chauvet Professional’s Strike 1, which follows the company’s launch for its Strike 4 multi format warm white fixture, is a single pod light that can be used anywhere as a blinder, strobe, wash and flood fixture. It uses a 230W warm white LED source for an even brighter and more intense output than each of the four pods within the Strike 4 unit (each of which are 100W). The Strike 1 is also rated for indoor and outdoor use.

Roland Pro A/V is introducing a new application for its XS-Series Matrix Switchers for use as high-quality, pixel-accurate cropping switcher/scalers for LED video walls. The XS-Series can switch eight HDMI or analog video inputs to up to four LED video walls, each with their own independent aspect ratio and scaling settings.

Chauvet Professional’s Maverick series, including the MK2 Wash, MK1 Hybrid and MK2 Spot, Includes a W-DMX receiver card in every fixture as a standard feature.

Blackmagic Design says its Blackmagic Duplicator 1.0.2 update will dramatically increase the performance of H.265 files on the latest playback devices. Since the Blackmagic Duplicator 4K was launched in April, new H.265 playback devices have been released and customers have also been providing feedback on the playback performance of the H.265 files. This feedback has been used to improve the codec in the Blackmagic Duplicator 4K, and this software update provides these improvements to all Blackmagic Duplicator 4K customers.

ADJ’s Chameleon QBar Pro is designed to produce wall-washing effects and also be used to generate mid-air beams. Offering WiFLY DMX control, 64 color macros, 19 built-in programs and 6 operating modes, it promises a new level of creativity in venue up-lighting.

Le Maitre’s G300-SMART smoke machine features “Internet of Things” technology and supports both Wi-Fi and LAN connectivity for setup, monitoring and diagnostics. Building on the foundation of Le Maitre’s flagship smoke machine, the G300, the G300-SMART retains features including the G300’s versatility, durability and ample output of dense white smoke. Smoke output is 51,000 cubic meters per hour. The G300-SMART also comes with an easy-to-read backlit LCD display for improved user interaction. It has DMX in and out, 0-10V control, and fluid out and fluid low reporting. With Wi-Fi on board, users get a new level of flexibility. They can set and change the configuration of the machine via their mobile device, such as a phone or tablet. Users can set interval, duration and pre-delay times, and also control the flow level, turn the unit on or off and diagnose/debug any errors wirelessly. Once connected via Wi-Fi, the G300-SMART also can be monitored and controlled over the Internet through Le Maitre’s evolving Machine Interface Portal.