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Zylight Pro-Cyc Color 350-Watt Cyclorama Light

Zylight Pro-Cyc Color 350W Cyc Light

Zylight is debuting its Pro-Cyc Color asymmetric wall washer later this month at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas (Booth C7947). Designed for TV studios and theatres, the 350-watt Pro-Cyc Color produces a soft, even field with enough output to cover 25-foot cyc walls. It shines pure white for a clean chromakey wash, and features Zylight’s Color Mode to produce millions of colors without gels or filters. Built for floor use or truss mount, the lightweight Pro-Cyc Color features solid aluminum and steel construction. Up to four Pro-Cyc Color fixtures can be daisy chained through their powercon connectors. The Pro-Cyc Color features integrated DMX operation as well as an intuitive control panel for smooth 0-100 percent dimming.

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ETC’s ColorSource Linear 4 Completes The Family

ETC’s ColorSource Linear 4 Completes The Family

MIDDLETON, WI – ETC’s ColorSource® Linear family is now complete with this week’s launch of the ColorSource Linear 4 fixture. This is the third and longest variation of the ColorSource Linear fixture and measures a full two-meters in length. Like the Linear 1, (half-meter) and Linear 2, (one-meter) fixtures, Linear 4 comes in both original and deep blue array options. Both offer a richness of color, and quality of light output you’ve come to expect from ETC ColorSource fixtures.

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Stephen Page, Nick Walton, Rob Leach, Pete Robinson and Rob Ashworth

dbn Lighting and Audile become dbnAudile

MANCHESTER, U.K. – Lighting and rigging specialist dbn is joining forces with full service event technical company Audile, to create dbnAudile. The merged company promises to combine a wealth of experience, skills and talents across the disciplines of lighting, audio, rigging and creative video all under one roof in central Manchester. Pictured here, from left, are Stephen Page, Nick Walton, Rob Leach, Pete Robinson and Rob Ashwort.

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ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium Honored with PIPA Award at Prolight+Sound

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FRANKFURT, Germany – The ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium received the Prolight + Sound International Press Award (PIPA) for “Best Product of the Year” in the lighting control category.   Based on voting by over 100 journalists from specialized publications, the award was presented on April 6th at the Prolight + Sound show. “This award is a tribute to the ChamSys design ethos,” said ChamSys Managing Director Chris Kennedy. “ChamSys has been built on giving the end-user as much freedom and flexibility as possible, because we respect the creativity that’s inherent in the design process.”

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USITT 2017 Brought Technical Theatre to St. Louis at America’s Center

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ST. LOUIS – USITT’s Annual Conference & Stage Expo took St. Louis by storm over the span of March 8-11 bringing 5,500 attendees and 307 exhibitors to the city, making this our biggest yet. This is second time St. Louis has hosted the Annual Conference, bringing in an economic impact of $5.88 million, with attendees filling 10 hotels in downtown St. Louis and patronizing local arts venues and dining establishments throughout their stay.

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VER Appoints Katie Shelton in Key Role on Broadcast Team

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UK – VER are pleased to announce the appointment of Katie Skelton to the position of Commercial Manager on their UK Broadcast Team. Katie brings with her a wealth of industry knowledge gained through working with some of the world’s largest Broadcasters and Production Companies.

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PR Lighting’s Big Six Includes New Aqua Splashproof Series

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FRANKFURT – PR Lighting enjoyed high visibility at this year’s Frankfurt Prolight+Sound Show — largely due to an inspired product showcase centered around their new AQUA waterproof moving heads. This was promoted heavily at the Show via banners and large posters in heavily populated areas of the concourses and walkways. The AQUA 440 Beam, the waterproof version of the XR440 Beam, takes advantage of the popular new high output Osram 440W discharge lamp to deliver a punchy and parallel 3.1° beam.

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Prolight + Sound 2017 One To Remember for Elation Professional

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FRANKFURT – Trade show success can be measured any number of ways, but by any standard Prolight + Sound 2017 was historic for Elation Professional. Bolstered by a new distribution relationship in Germany with LMP Lichttechnik Vertriebs, as well as the announcement just prior to the show that over 800 Elation lighting fixtures will feature on the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, this year’s Prolight + Sound was truly one to remember for Elation.

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Perth Concert Hall Installs Elation Sixpar 300s

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PERTH, Australia – The recent refresh of the entire Perth Concert Hall lighting rig (made possible through the State Government’s Department of Culture and the Arts Infrastructure Improvement Program) saw Head of Lighting Alex Spartalis with a lot of decisions to make. The choice to make the PCH home to nine Elation Sixpar 300 RGBAW+UV LED fixtures was not one of the difficult ones. With the whole rig headed to LED, Alex had to audition a huge range of luminaires, and the Sixpar 300s were an easy winner.

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FOR-A FA-9600 Multi Purpose Signal Processor

FOR-A FA-9600 Multi Purpose Signal Processor

FOR-A’s FA-9600 Multi Purpose Signal Processor will be featured at the 2017 NAB Show, booth, #C5117. The company will also debut the MCC-4K Motion Compensated Converter and LMCC-8000 8K/4K Linear Matrix Color Converter. The 2017 NAB show will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center April 22-27, with exhibits from April 24-27.

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