AUSTIN, TX – After moving to a new location here, Le Maitre Ltd North America recently changed its name to Le Maitre USA LLC, with operations director John McDowell becoming president and account manager Randy Hicks joining the Le Maitre USA team.
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ARGYLE, TX – Super Bowl week is under way in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area, with mobile video support from locally-based GoVision. The Dallas Cowboys, the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee and a host of corporations, event management firms, not-for-profits and venues have all enlisted visual support from the company's inventory of LED video screens.
Read More »AARHUS, Denmark and ANS, Belgium – Martin Professional and Deltacast announced an agreement where Martin will be using the Delta-hd and Delta-dvi video capture cards in its Maxedia PRO and Maxedia Broadcast media servers.
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PARK CITY, UT – The Bing Bar and its performance stages, sponsored by Microsoft at the Claim Jumper Hotel, returned for a second year at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and the hues chosen for the event were, naturally, Bing.com orange and blue. Justin Chatterton, owner of Clinton, UT-based The Beat of Time, provided the rig, dominated by LED fixtures from Chauvet.
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DEATH VALLEY, CA – Legendary sound pioneer and Parnelli Audio Innovator Award honoree Bruce Jackson was killed on January 29, when his Mooney M020 single engine piston prop engine plane crashed near Furnace Creek, CA, in Death Valley National Park. The Federal Aviation Association is investigating the cause of the crash and currently lists it as "unknown circumstances." Jackson was alone, flying at 11 p.m. He was 62.
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Juice Goose introduced seven power distribution models in the XP product series. Four models can be mounted in a conventional 19-inch horizontal configuration or mounted vertically on the inside wall of a rack in a "zero U" configuration.
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GUANGZHOU, China – Riedel Communications, makers of real-time networks for video, audio and intercom, installed a comprehensive communications system for the Asian Games in Guangzhou.
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PARIS – ADB France has completed a major upgrade of the stage lighting dimmers at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, replacing the dimmers originally installed for the theatre's opening in 1989.
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BRNO, Czech Republic – A joint production extending the Got Talent TV talent franchise into the Czech and Slovak Republics was staged in Exhibition Hall Z of the Brno Exhibition Centre, CZ, and lit by leading Slovakian lighting designer Martin Kubanka.
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ORLANDO, FL – After nearly 60 years in the same building, Edgewater High School's roof and walls were crumbling. A large chunk of the Orlando school's auditorium ceiling had actually caved in. So in January 2011, Edgewater's students made a long-overdue move.
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Martin Professional's PC-based lighting software, LightJockey 2, is now shipping with the new Martin One-Key protection device, one Martin USB DUO DMX and the MSD5 MC Edition 3D Visualizer.
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LONDON – Lighting Technology Projects (LTP) has completed the installation of a media wall feature that serves as the visual centerpiece in the foyer of the new 11-story building at 110 Fetter Lane (a site formally known as Rolls & Arnold House).
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