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Stageco Arena Lift

Stageco has developed Arena Lift, a hydraulic lifting system that raises larger ground supports with grids into venues to increase rigging capacities. Arena Lift is based around four hydraulic lifting units that form the anchors at the corners of the ground support towers. It’s designed for touring, and is compact for efficient packing to give cost-effective transport and make loading in through small venue entrances possible.

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RSN Lists Top Live Event Staging Trends

PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ –—Members of the Rental and Staging Network (RSN), a network of 22 geographically-diverse live event and staging companies, have offered their expertise on future trends in the industry. Among the trends are: digital signage for meetings, the migration to digital signal flow, and 4K resolution video becoming standard.

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Sapsis Provides Fall Arrest Training to War Horse Tour

PHILADELPHIA – The national touring company of the Broadway play War Horse selected Bill Sapsis, president of Sapsis Rigging, Inc., to provide fall arrest equipment and  training to the company’s crew. Most recently, Sapsis worked with the crews of the Broadway productions of Bonnie and Clyde and Evita, and with the national touring production of Dirty Dancing.

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Museum of Natural Sciences

Smart Monkeys Provide Show Control for Natural Sciences Museum

MIAMI BEACH, FL  – The new Nature Research Center (NRC) wing of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences held its grand opening recently, with the SECU Daily Planet dazzling visitors with its immersive, three-story multimedia space.  Batwin + Robin Productions hired Smart Monkeys, Inc. to provide system design, consulting and programming for extensive amounts of content it created for the Daily Planet and throughout the NRC wing.

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RC4 Magic System

RC4 Wireless Announces Rental Program

RALEIGH, NC – RC4Wireless, maker of the RC4Magic Wireless Dimming System, has launched the RC4 Rental Program. Rental rates are offered by the month, week or day to allow potential customers try before they buy. A typical rental consists of an RC4Magic DMXio transmitter and a pair of DMX2dim 2-channel wireless dimmers.

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WWE, Full Sail University Launch Partnership

WINTER PARK, FL –  Full Sail University students in the entertainment-focused degree programs will gain real-world experience working with WWE, a leader in global entertainment, to produce NXT. The partnership moves tapings of WWE NXT series to Full Sail Live, the university’s performance facility, and creates a new student scholarship fund.

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Cullen Quave

Cullen Quave Joins Advanced Systems Group

EMERYVILLE, CA – Cullen Quave has joined the inside sales team for the Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a West Coast video and film integration firm. Quave has more than 25 years of experience in the Bay Area film and video community, most recently as sales rep for Calumet Photographic.

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Matrix Patcher

Pandoras Box v5.1

Pandoras Box Version 5.1 offers a range of new features including AES 256-bit Media Encryption. To protect exclusive content from being copied or misused, users can choose between code based encryption generated within the Pandoras Box interface, or dongle-based encryption that would allow content to be played only during certain pre-defined times or on certain machines.

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Il Divo

HSL Supplies Wicked Lighting for Il Divo

BLACKBURN, UK – HSL supplied lighting, Kinesys automation system and crew to international operatic / pop vocal superstars Il Divo’s UK/European leg of their “Wicked Game” world tour. HSL was brought on-board by tour director and production manager Andy Proudfoot, for the design team of LD Matt Pitman and artistic director Brian Burke.

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Event Production Directory

EPD 2012: The Event Production Directory

The industry resource for sound, lighting, staging, rigging, road cases, set design, lasers, pyrotechnics, video reinforcement, backline, portable generators, coaches, freight forwarders, trucking, tour passes, travel agents, radio comm, security and insurance. A total of 164 pages of vendors and suppliers listed by geographic location in alphabetical order in each category. A must for anyone in need of information about where to source products and services in the event production industry.

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