BLACKBURN, UK – HSL is quadrupling its current space with a new 240,000 sq. ft. warehouse and office premises close to their current HQ in Blackburn, Lancashire. They plan to be fully operational by summer. The new facility allows further room to grow with future expansion.
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Mega-Lite’s Q-Loader is an RGB DMX lighting controller that offers pre-loaded scenes for easily changing the looks of RGB fixtures. It can control up to 16 fixtures and 10 channels per fixture. New scenes can be uploaded, downloaded and stored to the Q-loader via USB port on the front of the unit. It weighs less than 3 lbs. and measures 12 inches wide.
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HITCHIN, HERTS, UK – Rammstein’s touring set centers around an industrial theme with a Mega Fan capturing major attention. Production/lighting designer Roy Bennett worked with Peter Aquinde to create the urban set. Brilliant Stages designed and fabricated four main staging elements for the tour.
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Milton Keynes, UK – Impact Production Services (IPS) has added the new Prolyte H40R Truss to its extensive rental inventory and took it out on its first job, an awards event, produced by AV Network. The truss combines the compact dimensions of Prolyte H30V Truss, with the loading capacity of the larger H40V truss.
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LightFactory controls software release 2.9 offers advanced media integration and newly simplified views. The release is available now for download.
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NEW YORK – New York City’s Metropolitan Opera has purchased Clay Paky Alpha Profile 700 automated spotlights for its lighting inventory. Patrick Eagleton of Contemporary Lights specified the fixtures, choosing them for their compact size, even optical field, quiet and precise shutters, smooth dimming curve and silent movement.
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AUSTIN, TX — More than 50 companies will be at the Renaissance Austin showing their latest wares this Wednesday (10am-6pm) and Thursday (10am-4pm), Feb. 22-23, 2012. More than 900 industry members have registered for the event, which will also include demos and educational sessions both days, including the recently-added “LEDs and Lies” and “Concert LD to Architectural LD.”
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Jands’s new Vista L5 console controls lighting and media. Its highlight feature includes a 21-inch HD Wacom pen tablet, allowing a display of the entire rig on one screen for quick access to moving lights, media servers and LEDs. The L5 has 16 DMX universes and a backlit keyboard for working in dark environments. Linux OS drives an Intel Core i7 processor with 8 GB of RAM.
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