SALT LAKE CITY – WorldStage supported keynote presentations during the recent Adobe Summit: The Digital Marketing Conference. The Kenwood Group hired WorldStage to provide Adobe with a full complement of audio and video services for the Keynote Room. There, four “acts,” each 90-120 minutes long, played out with attention-grabbing visuals on mammoth screens supporting a roster of speakers and a number of different product demos.
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TX – Xtreme Structures and Fabrication (XSF) has expanded its sales team with the addition of Heather Marie Short and Billy Phillips. Short’s entertainment industry background includes a stint with Tomcat USA. Phillips has worked for Tomcat as well, along with Texas Scenic and Phillips Rigging.
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NEW YORK — ProSight Specialty Insurance and PLASA are working together to make industry standards normally accessible as a fee-based PDF download from the ANSI web store available at no charge. The program is offered in a bid to boost industry knowledge and safety.
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Movie theatre company Regal Entertainment Group recently held its General Manager Conference at the Knoxville Convention Center. Bandit Lites supplied lighting for the three-day event. One of the challenges was creating different looks for each meal – breakfast, lunch and dinner – all taking place in the same room.
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LAKE ORION, MI – Corporate event production company Riverview Systems Group Inc. of Milpitas, CA, was the first company to use UDC Timecode, a new feature in the Protocol Translation portion of High Resolution Systems’ UDC Pro Plus package. UDC Timecode enables users of the UDC (Universal Device Controller) software to sync with external timecode or turn UDC in to a timecode generator itself. The product made its debut at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco for Riverview’s client, Symantec.
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LONDON – Creative Technology (CT) will be the first customer to take delivery of the new 8mm outdoor LED product recently launched by Barco’s specialist LED division, LiveDots. The C8 investment follows CT’s introduction of the C5 and specially developed C16 as its mainstream indoor LED platform in early 2012. The new product is expected to arrive at CT in May. It is expected to be put into service soon afterward at key sports events.
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Clay Paky’s Sharpy Wash starts with Philips’ MSD Platinum 16R 330W lamp as a light source and adds features including a CMY color system, color wheel, mechanical dimmer, rotating beam-shaper, motorized top-hat and 6.5°-48° zoom. It also offers two frost filter choices, a Fresnel lens and speed of movement comparable to the original Sharpy. The light source produces 16,000 lumens of output in the 8,000K color temperature range and the fixture operates at 550W as a whole.
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GlowUp Strip 100 is an LED bar for professional stage lighting, with mixed battery/mains power supply and mixed cable/wireless control. It uses 10 powerful RGB-W… Read More »Clay Paky GlowUp Strip 100
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional’s EZ6 is a high-resolution 6mm indoor LED video display panel. Its light weight and modular quick assembly make it suited for visual displays at nightclubs, concert venues, live stages, exhibit halls and public spaces. It features 6mm pixel pitch, 1,800-nit brightness and 960 Hz refresh rate, producing high-definition graphics, text, logos or images. Panels may be linked together and can be floor or wall-mounted.
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LONDON – LD Tim Routledge specified 26 Clay Paky 800W Alpha Spot QWO 800 luminaires to British singer Gary Barlow’s UK tour. Barlow is also the frontman of Take That. Routledge is known for his work with Madonna, Katherine Jenkins and Sterophonics. Neg Earth supplied the lighting.
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