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4Wall Purchases Lighting Assets of Paramount On Location – New York

NEW YORK, NY-  4Wall Entertainment, a national provider of entertainment equipment rentals and sales, has purchased the lighting assets of Paramount On Location – New York, a provider of TV/Film equipment rentals to major motion pictures and television shows in the New York market.  Paramount will continue to service clients in Los Angeles and surrounding markets. As part of the transaction, 4Wall has also entered into an agreement with the newly formed company Insight Equipment, Inc. 4Wall will be the primary provider of all lighting and grip equipment for Insight, while also continuing to serve and maintain all current clients in the film and TV market.

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Felix Lighting Stays on Leading Edge with ProPlex

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LOS ANGELES – This year, Felix Lighting has added significantly to their rental inventory of ProPlex Devices and Cables.  In addition to their ProPlex IQ Two 1616 and 416 Nodes, Opto-Splitters, hundreds of Ethernet cables and ten runs of ProPlex Fibre cable, nine EZ-LANs form the heart of the California company’s state-of-the-art portable networking systems.  “ProPlex makes complex show networking easier and more reliable, and our lives easier,” says Ryan Herrera, VP of Business Development at Felix Lighting.

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Chris Reade Lights Vidya Vox Tour with Chauvet Professional Fixtures

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DURBAN, South Africa – Vidya Vox, born in India and raised in Virginia, has been captivating fans around the world via YouTube with her unique music, which started with a mashup of Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” with traditional Hindi and Tamil music in 2015. The artist is now on tour in support of her first EP, Kuthu Fire, lit with a Chris Reade and Jay Ballinger-designed light show that features a Maverick MK2 Spot, Rogue R2 Wash and Strike 4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

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LD Victor Fable Chooses Elation LED for “Survivor: Game Changers” Finale

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LOS ANGELES – For the season finale of “Survivor: Game Changers” earlier this past summer lighting designer Victor Fable decided the time was right to add more LED fixtures to the lighting rig of the popular competitive reality television series and turned to new generation LED fixtures from Elation Professional for the task. “We wanted to move to more LED and try something different without taking away the success of past live shows,” said Fable, who has traditionally used a profusion of discharge lamp fixtures on “Survivor” finale shows. “We wanted to see how much could be rolled over to LED and see how much more bang we could get with the extra fixtures it allowed us to use.”

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Bergen Avinor Now Benefits From Power of AV Stumpfl Wings Player and Avio Master

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WALLERN, AUSTRIA,-  In August 2017, Avinor opened the new terminal at Bergen Airport in Flesland, Norway. Construction has been ongoing since 2014. Designed to be modern, spacious and logical and feature a wider range of restaurants and shops, the new terminal adds 63,000 square metres of space to the existing 22,000 square meters. It also benefits from state-of-the-art video provided by audiovisual systems integrator Stagelab with Bright Norway, and powered by AV Stumpfl’s Wings Player Pro and Avio Master show control system.

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Lady Gaga Tour Expected to Resume Nov. 3 with Lavish Production Design, Robe Gear

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MONTREAL – Although Lady Gaga’s Joanne tour has been on hold since Sept. 11 as the artist recuperates from body pain caused by fibromyalgia, her fans are wishing Gaga a speedy recovery, and the tour is set to resume with a show in Montreal on Nov. 3, 2017. Along with Gaga herself, fans will be treated to a one-of-a-kind production design, which includes lighting effects from more than 200 Robe lighting fixtures supplied by Solotech for LD/production designer LeRoy Bennett’s design.

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Gerriets Introduces VARIO 2.6 – The Dance Floor That Lasts

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EWING, NJ – VARIO 2.6 is a dimensionally stable, 2.6 mm thick, heavy duty dance vinyl perfect for all styles of dance. It is designed for long term installations in high wear environments making it a perfect choice for dance studios and heavily trafficked stages. In semi-permanent and permanent installations, it is recommended to be used over a floating floor such as our ERGODANCE sprung floors or for placement over VARIO Elastic to give extra cushion to each step. Vario 2.6 is one-sided, comes in three different colors and is available in full rolls only.

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Specialz Assists Designer Cate Carter on Current Tour Designs

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LONDON -“The ethos at the heart of Specialz is the company’s completely open nature to a designer’s ideas and concepts.  Backed up by a breadth of experience, skill and, what could be best described as industry savvy, Dave and his team offer a unique service to us as a client.”  states Cate Carter , who needs little introduction as one of busiest and most successful LDs over the last decade; her portfolio is long and illustrious with the likes of Editors and Ellie Goulding currently out on tour.  Carter’s company, Bryte Design is a design production house run in conjunction with her business partner, lighting designer Mike Smith and Visual Producer Pablo Beckett.

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Delvcam Introduces a 4K Media Player with 10 HDMI Outputs

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MOUNT MARION, N.Y. – Delvcam, a US based design and engineering firm specializing in professional LCD video production monitors, introduces the DELV-4KMP110 Media Player with ten 4Kx2K@60Hz HDMI outputs and an Android 6.0.1 operating system. Dan Coscarella, product manager at Delvcam, stated, “Our new media player delivers high resolution graphics feeding HDMI extenders, displays or projector 4K UHD ecosystems at a cost-effective price.”

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Kraig Knight and Joe Adams Join Elation Professional as Regional Sales Reps

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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional is pleased to announce that industry professionals Kraig Knight and Joe Adams have joined the company’s growing sales team as Regional Sales Representatives. Both Kraig and Joe come to Elation from manufacturers rep firm PSLP (Professional Sound and Lighting Products), where they represented Elation products for years. Kraig Knight serves as Elation’s new Regional Sales Representative for the Rocky Mountain region while Joe Adams covers Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

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Macroblock Collaborates with ABSEN and LOPU to Demonstrate Diverse Applications of Smart Power Saving

SHANGHAI – Macroblock attended LED China 2017 at Shanghai New International Expo Center during September 20th -22nd. This is the most important trade show for the LED display industry in China, and all LED display manufacturers show off the best products. In this battlefield, manufacturers have recently competed smaller pitch products with superior image quality.., and so on. However, focusing on users’ need to differentiate products is the key to winning in the competition.  Aiming at 24/7 operation applications, Macroblock develops LED driver IC, MBI5353 with a “smart power saving” function. The “smart power saving” function reduces power consumption in the black areas of displayed images and then decreases electricity consumption of LED displays.

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Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound 2018 Strengthen Ties And Put Greater Focus On Professional Encounters

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FRANKFURT – Musikmesse (11 to 14 April 2018) and Prolight + Sound (10 to 13 April 2018) bring together companies with retailers, professionals from the musical-instrument, event and media-technologies sectors, as well as musicians from all over the world. In 2017, the two events attracted a total of around 100,000 visitors from 144 countries to Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre. For companies of all sizes there is a wide spectrum of options to showcase products, ranging from all-inclusive booth packages at an entry-level price and open air live-demonstrations to the integration of brands and endorsers in the event program of the two shows.

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