ORLANDO, FL – Zenith Lighting named LD Ben Coker technical manager. Coker, LD for Porter Robinson and others, has extensive experience in stage and event lighting, having worked his way up as a stagehand, shop laborer, master electrician and LD.
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WASHINGTON, DC – For-A noted that it will highlight portable video switcher, video server, ClassX character generator and LTO video archiving recorder solutions at the 22nd annual Government Video Expo. FOR-A will exhibit in Booth 530 at the upcoming show, which takes place Nov. 29-30 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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PARIS – The Fun Radio Ibiza Experience, staged earlier this year, featured EDM artists including Robin Schultz, Nervo, Sam Feldt, W&W and headliners, Afrojack and Hardwell. Show director Romain Pissenem got an assist from Paris-based Ayrton in the form of more than 200 Ayrton lighting fixtures, including 100-plus MagicBlade-FX, 50 MagicPanel-FX and 50 MagicDot-XT fixtures.
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SGM’s IP65-rated Q-10, featured at LDI 2017 in Las Vegas, is a 60K lumen output RGBW LED luminaire that can function as a strobe, flood, pixel light and blinder with non-fading continuous output.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary – A range of Mojo Barriers aluminum crowd safety barriers are now based in Budapest with the announcement of a new Mojo distributor giving convenient, cost effective barrier rental for festival organizers and tours coming to Eastern Europe on Nov. 17, 2017.
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RIO – Four Robert Juliat Lancelot 4K HTI followspots took pride of place front-of-house at Brazil’s Rock In Rio Festival this summer. Held over two weekends at the Cidade do Rock at Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Olímpico da Barra, this amazing festival saw headliners Aerosmith, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Bon Jovi, Maroon 5 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers play to over 700,000 during seven fantastic nights.
LAS VEGAS – ER Productions has achieved the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the Largest Laser Show with a spectacular display at Live Design International (LDI) in Las Vegas. In celebration of its tenth anniversary, laser specialist ER Productions held the 30-minute laser showcase on 18th November that culminated in a seven-minute recording-breaking finale that incorporated 314 individual laser fixtures. An adjudicator from GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS was present to confirm the world record-breaking achievement.
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LAS VEGAS – The 2017 LDI Show started on a high note for Robe Lighting, with the company’s new MegaPointe moving light awarded a 2017 PLSN Gold Star Product Award for “Best New Hybrid Light” – an auspicious start for what Robe North America CEO Bob Schacherl described as “our busiest and most energized LDI to date. The turnout of clients was amazing and validates our sales and marketing approach for the North American market.”
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DUBLIN, Ireland – Mountain Productions, a leading North American supplier of staging and event production, continues to expand with the launch of their e-commerce website, MTN Shop, in Europe.
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LONDON, UK, – The new Hippotizer + range of Media Servers, launched at LDI today, brings a host of added benefits to the maker’s powerful machines, and the first UK outfit to take delivery of the latest models is Anna Valley. Anna Valley has provided both fixed installation and rental services to the event, retail, corporate and entertainment sectors in the UK for over 25 years.
LAS VEGAS – ACT Lighting, Inc., a leading importer and distributor of technology to the entertainment industry, has completed the acquisition of RHC Holdings Corp. (“RapcoHorizon”). This move follows ACT Lighting’s recent acquisition of AC Power Distribution, a manufacturer of UL-listed portable power distribution for film, video, touring and exterior event venues. The RapcoHorizon acquisition further solidifies ACT Lighting’s position as the market-leading value-added distributor of premier entertainment technology products.
Read More »LONDON, UK,– The new Hippotizer + range is literally just out of the blocks, but it has already broken Green Hippo sales records. The announcement of the new product line, which builds on Green Hippo’s Hippotizer family of Media Servers, produced an unprecedented number of sales enquiries, and dealers and distributors have been (delightedly) overwhelmed by early orders.