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DTS Lighting Takes Stratosphere Theater To New Heights

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LAS VEGAS — The Stratosphere Theater, within the Stratosphere hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, is a busy place, with up to three different productions a day, all of which feature unique lighting requirements. Director of entertainment Chris Townsend credited DTS for the performance of 28 new Max L moving lights that have been installed in the venue since January.

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Staging Concepts' new Uplift Stage features a drill operated design.

Staging Concepts Updates its Uplift Stage with Drill-Operated Design

Staging Concepts, a provider of custom staging solutions based in Minneapolis, launched its second generation Uplift® Stage. Reconstructed with a new design, the product now requires no manual lifting and is 100 percent drill operated. The platform is a scissor stage that is raised and lowered with an electric drill, allowing users to setup quickly, efficiently, and with the least amount of effort.

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Advanced Absorbs APG Displays To Create New Videowall Division That Offers Full Integration Services

ORLANDO — After spinning off APG Displays’ rental business into APG Rentals in 2016 to provide a more dedicated rental service, Advanced, a leading North American systems integration firm, announced on March 21 that all of its APG Displays sales and installation sectors will be integrated into a new division of Advanced, the Advanced Videowall Group.

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St. George Leagues Club Casino in Sydney

Sydney Casino Redesigns Video Content Distribution with Gefen Solution

SYDNEY – Gary Garr, executive manager of the St. George Leagues Club Casino in Sydney, Australia worked with WED Group services & integration manager Matthew Joyce on a video upgrade that included a redesign of the casino’s content distribution system. It now includes Gefen’s 1080p Video Over IP solutions to distribute video graphics to the casino’s 100 displays.

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Elation Professional Proteus Hybrid and Proteus Beam fixtures are now available.

Elation to Feature Proteus Line at 2017 Prolight+Sound

Elation Professional will feature its new Proteus line of IP-rated arc-source moving heads at this year’s Prolight + Sound exhibition, set to take place at Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany from April 4-7 at Hall 4 Stand F60/61. Both the Proteus Hybrid and Proteus Beam (pictured here, L-R), are now available.  Proteus is a next-tier product line of IP-rated moving lights built specifically to empower designer creativity. Compact, robust and budget-friendly, Proteus fixtures are designed to unleash creative vision and excel under any conditions. Proteus will debut alongside other Elation innovations like the new Artiste DaVinci, a full-featured and high-output theatrical-grade LED moving head spot luminaire. A number of other cutting-edge products are set to impress as well including the new Platinum 1200 Wash, Elation’s brightest LED wash to date, and the flexible 7-color Platinum Seven LED wash luminaire.

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Bonobo tours to support new album

Migrating with Bonobo

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LONDON – Colour Sound Experiment supplied a lighting and video floor package for the latest run of live shows by talented music producer Bonobo (Simon Green), with a brand new lighting look for the stage designed by Will Thomas.The tour is in support of Bonobo’s recent UK Top 5 album, “Migration”, released in January on independent label Ninja Tune Records. Will Thomas has previously worked on Bonobo’s extensive “Black Sands” and ‘The North Borders” tours, which culminated at the end of 2014 with a sellout show at London’s Alexandra Palace.

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Chauvet Acquires ChamSys

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SUNRISE, FL — Chauvet & Sons LLC has acquired ChamSys Ltd., the U.K.-based designer and manufacturer of lighting controllers. ChamSys provides Chauvet with a strong presence in the controller market, complementing Chauvet’s lighting fixtures and LED video panels. ChamSys will continue to operate from its facility in Southampton, U.K., led by ChamSys founders Chris Kennedy and George McDuff, who will serve as managing directors, and sales director Tony Cameron.

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ETCP To Launch Portable Power Distribution Technician Practice Exam on April 1, 2017

NYC – The Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) will launch a practice exam for the Portable Power Distribution Technician certification examination on April 1, 2017. The web-based practice exam will consist of fifty questions is available from that date forward for forty dollars at etcp.esta.org/practiceexams. Candidates should go to the “Candidates” link and then follow the menu to ETCP and choose this exam.

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GLP GT-1 Now Shipping

SUN VALLEY, CA – Following a number of successful field trials, GLP’s GT-1 hybrid fixture is now ready for official release and has begun shipping. Already proving hugely popular, the GT-1 is a true hybrid fixture, working as a Beam, Spot and Wash fixture with highest levels of performance. Incorporation of a new 440W Osram discharge lamp dramatically improves the output, while its high-quality optical system produces a beam that features an enormous 22:1 ratio zoom range from 3.5° to 57°.

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Viewers tuned in to see stars such as, John Travolta, French actor Gerard Depardieu, singers Anastacia, Tony Hadley and Simon Le Bon discuss the music that’s important to them.

d3 Performs Projection Mapping as ‘Music!’ Makes its Mark on Italian TV

ROME – On the Italian TV special, Music!, a wide array of international celebrities shared the stories of the songs of their lives and gave their own live renditions of the tunes. STS Communication, d3’s new rental partner in Italy, provided technical resources for the show, including using d3 to projection map the large dome that topped the set. Music! aired on Italy’s Mediaset Canale 5 in primetime for three evenings in January with 4.6 million viewers per episode.

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