Product News

Arena Electrol from Da-Lite Screen Company is a motorized projection screen available in widths over 39 feet for large venues. It is designed with a built-in balancing system and steel cable guides for smooth, even screen retraction and a flat viewing surface.

ETC's Fire and Ice are color-spectrum-specific LED fixtures added to the company's Selador Vivid line. Fire features a warm wash of saturated reds, oranges and ambers. Ice provides, in one fixture, a palette of deep indigo, blue, cyan, green (and a touch of red).

Analog Way's Orchestra Remote Controller is designed to independently or simultaneously manage several switchers such as Di-VentiX II as well as the new Opus system, either as stand-alone boxes or as any combination, including soft-edge blending.

GDS (Global Design Solutions) is adding to its LiteWare range with LiteWare HO (High Output). LiteWare HO is an 80-watt version of its LiteWare wireless RGB uplighter introduced last year. It is compatible with the existing LiteWare range, shares the same footprint, and is calibrated to deliver color-matched output. It has an operational run time of 12 hours and will be available in late March.

Synthe FX has announced Luminair 2.0 wireless multi-touch DMX control software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It uses Art-Net protocol to control compatible lighting and media server equipment using the internal Wi-Fi hardware.

Stage Research's SoftPlot 9.2 is now compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. A new HTML Help viewer displays SoftPlot Help documents on Vista and later operating systems.

EZ-MAX Plus relay panels have been added to Leviton's Z-MAX relay panels product line. The panels are designed to reduce power use without requiring separate time clocks, cabinets, terminal blocks and contactors.

SnowMasters Special Effects Studios' Zig Oscillator allows special effects equipment to be mounted and oscillated up to 90 degrees, including snow, bubbles, smoke, scent and more.

Two updated training guides are now available for users of Vectorworks software. The guides, 3D Modeling in Vectorworks, Second Edition and Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual, Second Edition, were both written by Vectorworks user and author Jonathan Pickup.

The JBLED A4 from JB Lighting is a compact LED moving head fixture designed for use on smaller stages, clubs and other smaller venues. The A4 contains 60 Luxeon LEDs and features the same 8°-28° optical zoom system found in the JBLED A7.

American DJ's P64 LED Plus updates the company's P64 LED par can with master/slave capabilities. Now, all it takes is a 3-pin XLR cable to link multiple units of the fixture together, and they will all follow a "master" program making it easier for users to produce a synchronized light show.

Guard Dog Low Profile top-loading cable protectors are available in 1-, 2-, 3-, or 5-channel models. They are 1.25" high with a .75" channel height and feature Dog-Bone connectors for modular interconnectivity and storage.