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Equipped with four 16-by-8-foot (WxH) Theatrixx video panels, the center display weighs 12,300 pounds and has a trim height of about 22 feet.

Ontario Ice Rink Hoists LED Screens with Assist from BroadWeigh Load Monitoring System

NORTH BAY, Ontario, Canada — North Bay Memorial Gardens Arena, which first opened in 1955, underwent a $12 million refurbishment before the 2013/2014 ice hockey season. The upgrade expanded the arena’s seating capacity to 4,246 and included a number of other upgrades, inside and out. The visual centerpiece for the Ontario Hockey League’s North Bay Battalion, which had just relocated from Brampton, Ontario with a 15-year contract, is the four-sided video display hoisted into place by Westbury National Show Systems Ltd.

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LightGeist Splodger

LightGeist LightStick, Badger and Splodger

FRANKFURT — LightGeist is calling the launch of its new product range, which includes fixtures called the LightStick, the Badger and, pictured left, the Splodger, an “unmitigated success.” The new gear was introduced mid-March at the Prolight + Sound show here. The RGB LED fixtures can be operated without cables, allowing for immersive effects with multiple fixtures in various configurations.

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Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 Beam

Chauvet Professional Rogue Spot and Beam Fixtures

Chauvet Professional’s new Rogue series of moving head fixtures extends features like LED gobo morphing, variable speed scrolling and multi-prism rotation into tight-budget territory. The series currently includes four fixtures: two spots (Rogue R1 Spot, Rogue R2 Spot) and two beam fixtures (Rogue R1 Beam – pictured here – and the Rogue R2 Beam).

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Harman’s Martin Professional Lights Up the Stage for the Arnold Sports Festival 2014

COLUMBUS, Ohio  — For this year’s Arnold Sports Festival, Live! Technologies deployed a rig of over 100 Martin lights including 12 Viper Performances, 12 Viper Profiles, six MAC III Performances, 36 MAC Auras, 22 MAC 101s, 12 RUSH MH3 Beams, four Atomic 3000 DMX strobes, 60 EC-10 video panels and one P3-200 Video Processor/Scaler. This is the 20th year that Live! Technologies has worked with the festival.

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Robe Announces Technical Partnership with RADA

As a partner with London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Robe will be supplying technical equipment and resources to the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, the George Bernard Shaw Theatre and the John Gielgud Theatre, all in RADA’s central London buildings. The equipment includes DLS Profiles, DLF Washes and LEDWash600s, together with two of the new MMX Blades – all from Robe’s ROBIN series.

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Stage Electrics Delivers Bespoke Solutions to Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Milton Court

UK – Stage Electrics recently delivered the lighting, audio and video systems to Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s state-of-the-art facility. Stage Electrics supplied, installed and commissioned the lighting, audio and video infrastructure venue-wide which includes dimmer racks, data distribution, paging and show relay, plus custom-manufactured stage management desks, facility panels, lighting bars, ‘raceways’ and loose equipment.

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Bombay Bicycle Club Tours U.K. with XL Video Projections

Bombay Bicycle Club Tours U.K. with XL Video Projections

LONDON – XL Video supplied projection and Catalyst control for the recent UK tour by indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club. Incorporating video into their live tour for the first time, LD Squib took visual influences from the work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge and utilized early stop-motion animation techniques and stylization. With projection being central to the show, two Panasonic PT-DZ21K 20K projectors were utilized, overlaid to optimize the brightness, with the set circles treated as one large surface, and all the content programed in to one of XLs Catalyst media servers.

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Ayrton launched its Radical range of RGBW LED fixtures along with its NandoBeam S6 fixture at Prolight+Sound 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany in mid-March.

Ayrton Radical Series RGBW LED Fixtures

Ayrton’s new Radical Series promises to combine a honed and streamlined appearance with a very narrow and intense beam, advanced thermal management and impressive output suited for use in arenas and stadiums as well as smaller venues. Most of the fixtures in the line (except for the WildBeam-R and IntelliPix-R) were kept under wraps until their launch at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany. The other models in the R Series include the MagicPanel-R, MagicBlade-R and the MagicRing-R9.

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