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Robe wins Parnelli for Indispensable Technology

Robe Enjoys Busy Award Winning LDI

[caption id="attachment_272517" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Robe Team[/caption]

LAS VEGAS – Robe enjoyed an action-packed LDI expo in Las Vegas, this year all the more memorable for collecting a coveted 2016 Parnelli award in the ‘Indispensable Lighting Technology’ category for the hugely successful BMFL WashBeam luminaire. Robe highlighted two brand new products for the first time at a U.S. exhibition – the Spiider LED wash beam – “the next big thing” from the Czech manufacturer, and Halo, an ingenious new LED ‘pixel technology’ device. Also new was the Spikie, a small, super-fast LED wash beam.

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Insomniac's Dreamstate event in Melbourn, Australia used Hog 4-driven Shapeshifters

Insomniac’s Dreamstate in Melbourne, Australia Makes Use of HES Shapeshifters with Hog 4 Control

MELBOURNE, Australia – American dance promoter Insomniac Events, the company behind the enormous Electric Daisy Carnival, teamed up with locals Symbiotic to bring its trance brand Dreamstate to Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on October 1 for a night of deep grooves and euphoric melodies, served up by Paul van Dyk, John O’Callaghan, Rank 1, Sneijder, Genix B2B Sunny Lax, and Mark Sixma. At the heart of Matt Chromatic’s design were High End Systems Shapeshifters.

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Clark Williams

Christie Forms Content Management and Processing (CMP) Group, Names Clark Williams Executive VP

CYPRESS, CA – Christie announced the formation of a new Content Management and Processing (CMP) led by newly named executive vice president Clark Williams. The new group encompasses the company’s content management and processing products, including Christie Spyder, Christie Phoenix, Christie Brio and Christie Pandoras Box. Williams will oversee CMP engineering and product management staff in Kitchener, Ontario; Phoenix, AZ and Cologne, Germany. He rejoins Christie after working as an industry consultant. Prior to that, he was president of Vista Controls Systems, which was acquired by Christie in 2007 and which Williams headed for several years at Christie. Also part of Williams’s team is Victor Vettorello, who has experience at both Christie and Vista Controls Systems.  He rejoins Christie as senior applications specialist for the upcoming Christie Spyder X80 debut.

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Roscolux #359 – the Color that Keeps on Giving

LAS VEGAS – On the show floor at LDI today, Rosco Laboratories presented a check for $4,500 from the sales of Roscolux #359 Medium Violet to Behind the Scenes, the charity that assists entertainment technology professionals in need due to serious illness or injury. This year’s contribution brings the total contributions from Roscolux #359 to BTS to $21,000.

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Blizzard Lighting Skybox Chroma

Blizzard Lighting’s SkyBox Chroma features dual-layered, separately controlled, six-in-one LEDs. The fixture has three 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs on the bottom and six 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs up top — nine 15W RGBAW+UV LEDs in all. The fixtures also come with a 2.4Ghz built-in wireless DMX receiver, long-life, Intelion lithium ion battery system with three user selectable power output modes and quiet variable-speed internal fan for cooling.

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From left, Elation's Proteus Beam and Proteus Hybrid fixtures

Elation’s Proteus Series Brings it Outside

Elation Professional’s new Proteus line of IP-rated moving lights, featured at LDI 2016 in Las Vegas, incorporate years of R&D to help LDs bring their designs outside into the elements. The line of moving lights will include compact, robust and budget-friendly moving fixtures. Pictured here, from left, are the Proteus Beam and Proteus Hybrid fixtures. The Beam has a 14R arc lamp and the Hybrid has a 21R bulb. Both are IP 65 rated for water resistance. They are expected to start shipping in January.

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High End Systems Unveils SolaTheatre, HEX and QUAD At LDI 2016

LAS VEGAS — High End Systems unveiled the new SolaTheatre, Hex and Quad fixtures at LDI 2016. The SolaTheatre is the first lighting instrument in the SolaRange family to feature completely fanless operation, making it well suited to the needs of studio and theatrical applications that require almost-silent performance. SolaTheatre brings the power of High End’s white light LED engine to television, film and theatre LDs worldwide. The Hex and Quad join Shapeshifter and Uno in the company’s effects lighting range.

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City Theatrical featured their SHoW DMX Multiverse at LDI 2016

City Theatrical Introduces New Products at LDI 2016

LAS VEGAS – City Theatrical featured their SHoW DMX Multiverse (pictured here), which is designed to provide new levels of wireless DMX data transmission in a tiny package; DMXcat, a device that helps users get information on the personality and starting DMX address load of a wide range of fixtures; and other new products including their QolorPIX LED Pixel Control for pixel tape systems, QolorPoint Mini Wireless Uplighter, B-Series LED Dimmers and Lightwright 6 software for managing entertainment lighting paperwork.

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Martin VDO

Martin VDO Face 5 5mm Video Panel

Martin’s VDO Face 5 video panel is a 5mm pixel pitch video panel for outdoor and indoor applications that can be used effectively with other Martin LED video products such as the company’s VDO Sceptron. VDO Face 5 is designed to samve users time when building shows and save money due to a substantially longer lifetime than comparable products.

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