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Navori Labs’ CDN module establishes a connection between QL Professional and Microsoft’s Azure global cloud network.

New Navori Labs QL Modules Strengthen Large-Scale Digital Signage Deployments

LAUSANNE, Switzerland  – Swiss digital signage software specialist Navori Labs will release new modules for its QL digital signage engine this May. They promise to strengthen robustness for content management and delivery over large digital signage networks. The new QL Load Balancing, Failover and CDN modules, to be shown at Digital Signage Expo (March 16-17, Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth 2218), are intended for digital out-of-home networks comprised of 1000 or more Windows or Android media players. As pictured here, Navori Labs’ CDN module establishes a connection between QL Professional and Microsoft’s Azure global cloud network.

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Pyrotecnico Adds MA Lighting’s dot2 core Consoles for SFX Control

NEW CASTLE, PA – Pyrotecnico has invested in consoles from MA Lighting. The company took delivery of two dot2 core consoles with four dot2 F-wings. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America. Pyrotecnico plans to use the dot2 cores for DMX-controlled flames, CO2 jets, confetti and streamers, and DMX-driven laser technology for upcoming shows.

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For NYE Performance by Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, LD Jason Liggett uses Elation eMOTION Digital Light

PHILADELPHIA – For American rock band Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, which performed at the Fillmore in Philadelphia to ring in 2016, LD Jason Liggett used Elation Professional’s eMOTION moving head digital light. The eMOTION is Elation’s new plug and play DMX moving light with an on-board media server developed in cooperation with High End Systems. Utilizing only 32 DMX channels (54 in extended mode), it houses royalty-free digital art and videos with the ability to upload custom content.

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Photo by Louise Stickland

Rivers Church Opts for Robe Rig in New Auditorium in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG – For the new 3,000 capacity auditorium at Rivers Church’s Sandton Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, technical manager Ed Helliwell opted to install a Robe-centered rig. There are now 18 LEDWash 1200s, 10 Pointes, eight DL4S Profiles and eight miniPointes. They join  26 LEDBeam 100s purchased a few months earlier from Robe’s South African distributor, DWR.

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ModTruss being assembled on site

Filmwerks Teams with ModTruss for Super Bowl 50 Broadcast Structures

SANTA CLARA, CA – At Super Bowl 50, there was no shortage of temporary broadcast studios and stage structures to accommodate all the sports media covering the big game. Filmwerks International, based in Rocky Point, NC, handled the design, construction, and power for many of the studios. Filmwerks used nearly 1,000 pieces of ModTruss to erect seven broadcast structures including multiple NFL Network Super Bowl structures in the Media Center, field location, and at the Super Bowl City main entrance. Filmwerks also built the CBS Sports’ Stadium location and provided additional support for the flying camera systems.

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USITT Annual Conference Set for March 16-19 in Salt Lake City

USITT Annual Conference Set for March 16-19 in Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY – USITT’s 2016 Annual Conference & Stage Expo comes to Salt Lake City March 16-19. More than 5,000 members of the production industry are expected to attend the event, which promises to turn the Salt Palace Convention Center into a spectacle of lights, projection, costumes, props, sound and special effects from fog to flying.

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Blizzard TOURnado CSI COB

Blizzard TOURnado CSI COB

Blizzard Lighting expands its TOURnado family with the IP 65 rated TOURnado CSI COB. The fixture lets users add very bright Ultra Violet light with a wide 60° beam angle thanks to its installed 100W UV color COB LED. COB technology provides very intense light, which is produced via multiple small LED chips that are packaged together into one tiny, yet very powerful module.

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Sound Vision Marketing Managing Partners Tim Dykes (left) and Victor Clites (right), who are now servicing the elektraLite brand in Florida and Puerto Rico

Group One Limited Names Sound Vision Marketing Sales Rep Firm for elektraLite in Florida, Puerto Rico

FARMINGDALE, NY — Group One Limited tapped Sound Vision Marketing to serve as the latest independent sales representative for its elektraLite division. Tyler Wise, Group One’s national sales manager for the brand, made the announcement. Sound Vision Marketing Managing Partners Tim Dykes (left) and Victor Clites (right), who are now servicing the elektraLite brand in Florida and Puerto Rico, are pictured here.

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Photo by Georg Kronenberg

Marburg b(u)y Night Sets Medieval Castle, Other German Landmarks Aglow

MARBURG, Germany – Every year, during Marburg b(u)y Night, Marburg city center lights up: more than sixty public and private buildings become the stars of the show, and the shops stay open until midnight. The centerpiece of the event this year was the “Blickpunkt Schloss” project: the medieval landgraves’ castle was lit up on the hour and half hour starting from 6 pm with a time coded light and music show. Flashlight Veranstaltungstechnik GmbH saw to the event’s lighting needs. LD/programmer/operator Sebastian Haffer used 39 Clay Paky Mythos units with a grandMA light and onPC command wing for control.

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Nek's'Prima di Parlare' Tour Lit with Clay Paky Fixtures

Nek’s “Prima di Parlare” Tour Lit with Clay Paky Fixtures

TRENTO, Italy – Singer/songwriter Nek toured through his native Italy in October, November and December on his “Prima di Parlare” (Before You Talk) tour.  Sponsored by Radio Italia, the shows featured a set by Giò Forma’s Claudio Santucci that included a large LED wall and a lighting design by Francesco De Cave. The LD chose Clay Paky fixtures in the rig, including Sharpys and Alpha Spot HPE 700s, supplied by Agora.

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Philips Entertainment Lighting to Expand Showline Brand with Platinum Lamp-Based SL HYDRUS 350 at PL+S 2016

Philips Entertainment Lighting to Expand Showline Brand with Platinum Lamp-Based SL HYDRUS 350 at PL+S 2016

FRANKFURT – Philips Entertainment Lighting noted Pro Light + Sound highlights for 2016 that include the first Platinum lamp-based luminaire in the company’s formerly LED-only Showline group – the  SL HYDRUS 350. The SL HYDRUS 350 will be joined by some of the latest Philips Showline products, including the SL PUNCHLITE 220, the SL STRIP 10IP, SL BAR 510 and the SL BEAM 300 FX.

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Maddie & Tae

Larry Foote Lights Maddie & Tae Tour with an All-Nexus Rig

NASHVILLE – For country act Maddie & Tae, LD Larry Foote is providing a multitude of distinctive lighting looks with one fixture: the Nexus 4×4 COB LED panel from Chauvet Professional. Foote positioned the Nexus panels on upstage pipe and base stands. The ability to light individual cells on each fixture in different configurations allows for the same fixtures to provide many different looks and effects.

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