ADB Lighting Technologies' ALC4 modular LED Cyclorama light uses four RGB+White LED light sources. One ALC4 can deliver the equivalent of 1250W of halogen power while consuming 160W. The ALC4 provides seven user-selectable white light presets from 2700K to Daylight 6500K.
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INDIANAPOLIS – For the second year in a row, an octagonal LED video wall was been suspended above the court for the NCAA Men's Final Four. Fans attending the 2010 NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championships, which culminated in the final Duke/Butler matchup and a victory for Duke on April 5, had a HD view from any seat in Lucas Oil Stadium. Fans watching at home were also able to see the giant screens.
Read More »KERKRADE, The Netherlands – Highlite International B.V., a global distributor of lighting and audio gear, recently joined Philips' LED luminaires and retrofit bulbs license program.
Read More »SAN FRANCISCO – Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, Performing Arts/Media Facilities Planning and Design with offices in San Francisco, New York and Minneapolis, recently promoted four associates, Kevin Auses (San Francisco office), Matthew Ezold (New York office), Howard Glickman (San Francisco office) and Robert Hill (San Francisco office).
Read More »POWAY, CA – HM Electronics Inc. (HME), a manufacturer of digital wireless intercom products, agreed to acquire Clear-Com Communication Systems, a business unit of The Vitec Group plc. Clear-Com will continue operation as a wholly-owned subsidiary of HME.
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ROME – For the ninth series of shows called I Raccomandati (The Protégés), a talent contest televised live from the Teatro delle Vittorie by RAI, Riccardo Bocchini's set design used elegant new scenery elements including a wood parquet floor, an arch enclosing the stage, and chrome-plated trim behind three large LED walls. The set also included a full complement of Clay Paky fixtures supplied by Di & Di Service.
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SYRACUSE, NY – Eric McAfee, a member of the sales team at J. R. Clancy, Inc. who has years of experience as a theatre production professional installer and project manager, has been named domestic sales manager.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Responding to the needs of some of the more 1.2 million left homeless by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, Chauvet has teamed up with the charity organization Food For The Poor to raise funds for the construction of homes in an effort to raise $52,000 in four months to build 20 homes in Haiti.
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Analog Way's Orchestra Remote Controller is designed to independently or simultaneously manage several switchers such as Di-VentiX II as well as the new Opus system, either as stand-alone boxes or as any combination, including soft-edge blending.
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Stage Research's SoftPlot 9.2 is now compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. A new HTML Help viewer displays SoftPlot Help documents on Vista and later operating systems.
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Synthe FX has announced Luminair 2.0 wireless multi-touch DMX control software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It uses Art-Net protocol to control compatible lighting and media server equipment using the internal Wi-Fi hardware.
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Two updated training guides are now available for users of Vectorworks software. The guides, 3D Modeling in Vectorworks, Second Edition and Vectorworks Landmark Tutorial Manual, Second Edition, were both written by Vectorworks user and author Jonathan Pickup.
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