DETROIT – The annual North American International Motor Show, NAIAS, also known as The Detroit Motor Show, was officially opened to the press on Jan. 11, 2016. Swedish manufacturer, Volvo, were there to reveal their latest model. Mediatec supported a reveal for the new vehicle using CreateLED’s AirMAG-3x.
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PixelFLEX’s FLEXLite NXG updates the company’s FLEXLite product line with improved pitch resolution options, higher refresh rates and a new die-cast frame.
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LONDON – After the 2016 Brit Awards took place at London’s O2 Arena, Warner Music staged an after-show event at the Freemason’s Hall in London’s Covent Garden area. Maestra London, led by Justin Hammond, production designer Jenny Woollard, project & event manager Aisha Tarayan and technical managers Adam Jones and Edwin Higgins, worked with event designer Jason Morais from Warner Music on the set, lighting, rigging, audio and all the scenics and décor for the gathering.
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GENT, Belgium – Back in the late ’90s, the Flemish all-girl band K3 burst on the scene and quickly became Belgium’s answer to the Spice Girls. Now, after almost two decades of countless successful singles, tours and television appearances – including representing Belgium in the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest – the group’s members have decided to move on to the next phase of their careers. Adding punch to the dynamic lightshow for their farewell tour are Chauvet Professional STRIKE 4 LED fixtures supplied by PRG Belgium.
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KARBEN, Germany – Full-service production company satis&fy, based in Karben, Germany, has added more than 100 Elation Platinum FLX hybrid moving heads to its inventory, along with a number of EMOTION moving head digital lights. Pictured here is Elation’s Marc Librecht (left) with satis&fy’s Martin Heuser (right).
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Avolites’ feature-rich Titan V10 will be featured at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt next month, from April 5-8. The company says Titan V10 OS is packed full of a new features including a full 3D visualizer powered by the Capture engine, which is designed to let users create and edit shows right inside the Titan interface and lay out fixtures in the space using the console’s encoder wheels. V10 also allows the user to view intensity values in one place via the Intensity Grid. This clearly shows levels, source of information, whether increasing or decreasing and tracking information. Avolites will also be exhibiting its ‘supercharged’ Ai R Series of media servers and feature its Ai V9 software, with an all-new Audio Engine, a Dynamic Content Page, a new User Interface, and 58 new and updated effects. Avolites will be on Booth E80, Hall 3 Level 0 during the show.
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ETC is enhancing its line of Unison Echo products with EchoAccess and the company’s DMX Scene Controller. Both are compatible with all currently shipping Echo hardware products. Users can configure and customize self-contained systems, presets and zones while maintaining system-wide control. Combined with EchoAccess, the DMX Scene Controller allows for lighting hue, saturation and color to be modified locally or remotely for architectural lighting installations. Existing Echo products have also been updated in terms of capabilities and features in order to better meet energy codes, such as ASHRAE 90.1, CA Title 20/24 and IECC.
Read More »GOTHENBURG, Sweden —Latour Industries AB has signed an agreement to acquire 24.7 percent of the shares in LumenRadio AB through a directed share issue and acquisition of existing shares. Other large shareholders in the company are Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund and Almi Invest. LumenRadio develops, manufactures and sells equipment for wireless radio communication.
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LISBON, Portugal – The Voice Portugal, a Portuguese language version of the well-known TV singing competition, has incorporated d3 Technologies’ 2x2plus media servers in its production setup for on-stage visuals. The 2x2plus is designed to meet the needs of smaller shows and fixed installations with 2U solution that incorportates the d3 creative software suite.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA – For the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, LA-based NYX Design put GLP’s X4 Atom, X4 Bar 20 and X4 Bar 10 fixtures into service. Said to be one of the biggest film premieres ever staged, with the red carpet stretching for half a mile, the film was shown in three cinemas simultaneously.
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BALTIMORE, MD – Light City Baltimore is a festival of light, music and innovation. The inaugural event will light up Baltimore’s Inner Harbor from March 28 – April 3 with art, music, performances, and an innovation conference. Central to the event, will be the 1.5-mile BGE Light Art Walk, with 50 illuminated experiences and art installations, musical performances, street theater and concerts, all free and open to the public. The event will kick off with the Light City Lantern Parade coordinated by the Creative Alliance on March 28 at 7 p.m., beginning at the Maryland Science Center and following the BGE Light Art Walk.
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GLENDALE, AZ – Image Engineering spent the beginning of 2016 working on the two largest football games of the year, the National Football Championship (pictured here) and the Super Bowl. At the National Football Championship Image Engineering provided lighting, cryogenic and flame special effects for the Clemson University and University of Alabama player introductions. These effects energized the players and fans helping to set the stage for what was a riveting game. An audience of over 70,000 fans were in attendance and over 25 million viewers watched on television.
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