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Willow Creek Community Church Online Viewers Get HD Upgrade with Hitachi HDTV Cameras

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SOUTH BARRINGTON, IL — As one of the largest churches in the U.S., Willow Creek Community Church places a very high value on the power of video to connect with its congregants both within and beyond its campuses. When the church upgraded its production equipment to high definition at its main site in South Barrington, IL, it selected HDTV cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to capture and enhance the rich, immersive visual experiences for which its worship services are known around the world.

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Easton Corbin on tour

Easton Corbin Tours with Bandit Lites

NASHVILLE – Country music star Easton Corbin has been bringing his smooth twang to audiences around the country with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. His newest single, Girl Like You, has been climbing the charts as fans await his much anticipated fourth studio album. Lighting designer Andy Knighton utilized GLP Impression X4S on Bandit created ‘Go-Go’ Truss, a custom designed A-type truss where a pipe can be mounted down the center allowing smaller fixtures to be more portable.

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South African Media and Arts School Chooses Elation Lighting for New Studio

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JOHANNESBURG – Johannesburg is the country’s hub for film, television and music. and that focus on the creative industries spells opportunity for those interested in fields like production, and multimedia technology. City Varsity school of media and creative arts plays an important role in the education of young talent in the region and access to professional equipment is essential. So when the school recently launched a new multi-cam studio at their Braamfontein Johannesburg campus they chose to outfit it with Elation Professional broadcast-optimized lighting.  

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Robe Launches pixelPATT Fixture

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CZECH REPUBLIC – Robe has launched the pixelPATT … a brand new uber cool LED fixture to extend and complement its popular PATT range of retro styled fixtures … which bring elegance and finesse to any visual environment. Twenty pixelPATT fixtures were seen for the first time in public last night at the 2017 Total Production International (TPi) Awards in London – one of the highest profile awards events for the entertainment technology and production world.

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MDG ATMe Haze Generators Go Along for The Ride

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UK – Two of the very latest MDG haze generators, the ATMe, recently joined up-and-coming British rock band, Catfish and the Bottlemen, playing arenas during a three-week tour of the UK in support of the band’s second studio album, The Ride. Newcastle-based Nitelites supplied the full lighting, audio and staging to the tour and hired the MDG ATMe haze generators from Impact Productions, which purchased two of the models specifically for the tour.

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L’espace Vision Builds Mega Multidock Ingest System Using Blackmagic Multidocks

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FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design today announced that Tokyo based L’espace Vision has created the Mega MultiDock, an ingest system built around 20 Blackmagic MultiDocks. The system is able to import media from up to 80 SSDs simultaneously and is primarily used for ingesting footage from its live concert recording service, which uses multiple Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio Pro SSD recorders.

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Oscars Recovered from Staging Mishap Prior to Envelope Mixup

LOS ANGELES — Oscar ballot counters PricewaterhouseCoopers issued a public apology for the envelope mix-up that foiled their “fail safe” system during the 2017 Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 26, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway received the wrong envelope and announced La La Land as Best Picture. (Moonlight actually won.) Prior to the envelope glitch, during rehearsals at about 11:30 a.m., one of the skyscraper staging elements toppled over, reportedly crushing a camera. Fortunately no one was injured, and the ceremony was able to proceed as originally planned.

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