Artel Video Systems, a provider of media transport solutions for direct fiber, IP, and managed optical networks, will be at InfoComm featuring their DLC510 Multipurpose Dual-Port L-Band Demodulator and Satellite Scanner, DLC910 Quad SD-HD-3G SDI Multiviewer and IP-Based and 4K/UHD Solutions, among other products. Pictured here is Artel’s FiberLink 3500 series gear.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Suomen Videoviestintä SVV Oy, a Helsinki-based AV company that supports the lighting, audio and video production needs of concerts, corporate functions and trade fairs in and around Finland, has invested in in AV Stumpfl’s upgraded Wings Engine Raw 8K media server.
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LONDON – White Light provided an AV assist for DevWeek, a software developers conference held April 18 to 22 at Central Hall Westminster near the center of London. White Light was responsible for providing the lighting, audio and video support for any event taking place in Central Hall Westminster’s Great Hall.
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LOS ANGELES – At 82 years young, legendary singer, recording artist and front man of The Four Seasons Frankie Valli is still playing live and touring two weekends a month for most of the year … with Robe as the first choice of moving light on the rider. Valli has had multiple chart-topping singles and albums throughout an incredible six decade career and has also been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Read More »TROY, NY — Richard Cadena, an ETCP-Certified Entertainment Electrician and Trainer, will lead the first professional-development seminar to be held at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. The workshop will be conducted in EMPAC’s Studio Beta from June 27-29, 2016.
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ADJ’s new Asteroid 1200 is designed to send super-tight beams and distinct pixel-mapped patterns hurtling through the air and down onto the dance-floor. Packing limitless dual-directional continuous rotation and quad-color LEDs into one portable source, the Asteroid 1200 promises a full array of pixel-mappable visual effects.
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John McKernon and City Theatrical have announced that Lightwright 6, the newest version of the industry leading, multi award winning software for managing entertainment lighting paperwork, is now shipping and is available through City Theatrical dealers worldwide. Lightwright is an iconic industry standard on Broadway and in other areas of live entertainment, and was created to help designers and electricians record and keep track of the vast amount of data needed to install and maintain a lighting installation. As the lighting world has increased in complexity due to the proliferation of moving lights and LEDs, the organizational demands on lighting designers, design assistants, and electricians has continued to grow. Lightwright 6, for the first time, fulfills a longtime industry dream of controlling the flow of lighting data from design to console without needing to enter data multiple times by hand, while documenting up to 45,000 universes of data.
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Blizzard Lighting’s ThunderStik linear wash light has five 15W RGBW Quad-Color OSRAM LEDs with pixel control and a narrow 5-degree beam angle. The fixture also features a quiet-moving 250-degree motorized tiltable head (with three-phase motors) and Y-axis rotation as well. ThunderStik also comes with a set of lens filters to diffuse the fixture’s sharp output to a soft color blend, increasing the beam angle up to 30 or 60 degrees. Users can control the ThunderStik in either Reduced Mode (12-channel) or Standard Mode (32-channel). Both allow smooth 0-100 percent linear dimming, multiple strobe effects, macro effects, RGBW color mixing, separate background color control, built-in patterns, and speed controllable scanner effects. This fixture is equipped with a four-button LCD control panel, compact and sleek housing, powerCON compatible power in/out connections, 3-pin/5-pin DMX in/out jacks and integral Omega mounts. The fixture is also backed with Blizzard’s two-year warranty. MSRP is $899.99.
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SAN JUAN, PR – Musique Xpress provided a collection of high-output fixtures from Chauvet Professional for David Ayala’s light show accompanying Reggaeton artist Arcangel’s recent ‘Los Favoritos’ concert in Puerto Rico. The rig included 24 Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving beam/spots, 20 COLORado 4 IP RGBW linear washes and 18 Next NXT-1 moving RGBW panels.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Barco and High End Systems will be enhancing the visuals at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest this year. During the semi-finals and finals in Stockholm, Sweden, a full stack of high-brightness Barco projectors, 10 of which are equipped with Barco’s High End Systems’ MMS-200 moving mirror systems, and Barco’s E2 screen management system will be used by the design team to light more than 40 artists.
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SYDNEY – Chameleon Touring Systems added Solaris Flares from TMB to their inventory of gear for clients in Australia. The RGBW LED fixtures were chosen in part for their versatility (they can wash, blind and strobe) and performance specs (only about 1000 watts of LED generating more than 30,000 lumens of output at a 1200Hz refresh rate).
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LONDON – Show designer Bryan Leitch and lighting director Jamie Thompson from creative visual design specialist Mirrad chose more than 120 Robe moving lights among other fixtures supplied by Colour Sound Experiment to light YesLive 2016, a an awards event with live music performances staged at the London Roundhouse. The annual YesLive show helps inspire 15 to 17 year-olds to get involved in activities via the National Citizen Service (NCS) initiative.
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