DUBAI, UAE – Fifteen leading production and technical services companies – including Al Laith Event Services, Creative Technology, Delta Sound, EFM Event Logistics and Neumann & Müller Event Technology – supplied gear, crew and expertise for three-day concert event at Dubai's Aviation Club called Peace One Day.
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ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN – Light Converse Ltd.'s LIGHTCONVERSE 3D Show Platform was used to pre-program the recent 2011 Asian Winter Games, held between January 30th and February 6th in Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan. The three-hour opening ceremony of the games, staged at Astana's 40,000 seat indoor football stadium, required a visulization system that could match the highly-tuned athletic performances that would come to be from the 1,100 competitors from 27 participating countries. With over 30 universes of DMX, 586 moving light fixtures and multiple moving scenery pieces, static and video elements to contend with during the ceremony, LIGHTCONVERSE was chosen as the visualizer for all pre-show and on-site programming.
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CHATSWORTH, CA – Gefen announced the release of its new extender for professional computer systems using dual link DVI graphics. The DVI DL CAT-6 Extender offers a plug and play method of signal extension that guarantees a lossless video transmission with zero signal dropouts.
The next generation DVI DL CAT-6 Extender delivers uncompressed high resolution video to any remote display up to 200 feet (60m) in distance over two industry-standard CAT-6 cables. This is a substantial advantage over previous solutions, which required an add-on booster using more expensive cabling to handle distances beyond five meters.
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DURHAM, NC – Cree, Inc. has introduced two new LEDs optimized for high resolution indoor and outdoor video screens with water resistant and higher contrast high-brightness LEDs. The contrast offered by these Cree LEDs extends the benefits of typical, black surface-mount LEDs that are used for high-definition, high-resolution LED screens and displays.
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TAIPEI, TAWAN – FZLED announced today the releases their new line of 22-Watt PAR38 LED Spotlights that have lifetime expectancy of 35,000 hours. Fitting standard E26/E27 sockets, these LED spotlights provide 1400 luminous flux and give consumers the choice between a clear or frosted lens. Furthermore, users can choose for their bulbs to come with or without FZLED's built-in, dimming feature, allowing the spotlights to function at 12%, 25%, 50%, or 100% of light intensity. The desired level of brightness is easily selected by pressing the on/off power switch multiple times. Conforming to FZLED's high quality standards, these dimming LED spotlights give users an energy-saving, high-brightness, environmentally-friendly lighting solution.
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GLENDALE, CA – Information Integration Group (IIG) today announced that the company will be demonstrating the latest version of its Rental Maestro rental management software for the audio, video, and production industries at InfoComm 2011. Highlights of the enhanced platform include an improved, more user-friendly interface, in addition to a new mapping tool for convenient tracking of technician scheduling and tasks.
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ALEXANDRIA, VA – Barbizon Lighting Company announced the hiring of Brad Minardi. Brad joins the Barbizon Capitol office in Alexandria, Virginia working as an outside sales rep with customers in the Mid-Atlantic Region. "What I like best about my new role at Barbizon is being able to go out and meet people face to face and create a lighting package that best suits their needs. Every day brings something new. It is not uncommon in any given week to visit a theatre, church, museum, and even a government building!"
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MILAN, ITALY – Among the long-running entertainment programmes that state owned Italian public service broadcaster RAI hosts, "Domenica In" (Sunday In) is by far the oldest: 35 years of non-stop editions since 1976, when the absolute novelty of a six-hour continuous live entertainment show was introduced to Italian television.
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COOPER CITY, FL – German lighting designer Gunther Hecker used 22 Robe LEDWash 600s as his key fixtures for the just finished Die Söhne Mannheims European tour, an opportunity seized by the band to preview material for their forthcoming new album to be released in the autumn.
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INDIO, CA – More than 2,000 glowing interactive PixMob Zygote balls dropped from above onto the crowd during Arcade Fire's performance at the Coachella Festival in mid-April. The spheres used Montreal-based ESKI's PixMob technology, which transforms groups of mobile objects with light-emitting LED pixels, controlled relative to their location in real-time.
Read More »LOS ANGELES – John Cossette, the longtime executive producer of the Grammy Awards, died April 26 at age 54. The son of Pierre Cossette, the founding producer for the Grammy telecast who died in 2009 at age 85, John Cossette had led the Grammy Awards broadcasts for 18 years. This year's show, broadcast live on CBS Feb. 13, 2011, was the 53rd annual production.
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BRISTOL, UK – West Midlands and Bristol, UK based AV rental specialist Central Presentations Ltd. (CPL) has expanded its warehouse space near Birmingham by taking over a new unit right next door to the existing facility and offices. More capacity has been needed for some time – particularly due to recent investments in the latest larger scale technology like HD cameras, projectors and PPUs as well as an ever increasing stock of day-to-day equipment like microphones, plasma screens and speakers – plus higher staff levels and a healthy level of business.
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