ATLANTA – Solaris named Trey Hensley sales manager. Hensley has 28 years of experience with lighting, video and audio, in concert touring, corporate events and show production. Hensley has spent the last eight years as a manufacturer's sales rep.
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Da-Lite's Arena Electrol, available in widths over 39 feet, is designed for large venues needing motorized projection screens. Features include a built-in balancing system and steel cable guides for smooth, even screen retraction and a flat viewing surface.
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Rose Brand's Eco-Liner fabric, which had been initially developed for recyclable graduation gowns, is now available for entertainment industry use. Eco-Liner fabric is made from Repreve yarn with 100 percent recycled content using pre-consumer polyester fiber waste and post-consumer plastics.
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Landru Design has released two new Vectorworks software plug-ins: VideoScreen 4 and SoftGoods. VideoScreen 4 is a suite of plug-in objects that enables users to insert 2D and 3D models of video devices such as projection screens, plasma televisions and CRT monitors, customizable screen images, into Vectorworks drawings.
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ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) has unveiled a line of motorized hoists and hoist-control systems for theatrical and architectural use called ETC Rigging. Its first offerings are the fixed-speed ETC Prodigy hoist systems and ETC QuickTouch controls.
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The Jarag, manufactured by Chromlech, is an integrated, programmable, lighting effects system that can be used to create arrays of light. The Jarag-5 is a matrix of 25 lamps with integrated electronics that provides dimming and sequencing. It is available with 75-watt PAR20 or PAR30 lamps and it draws 8A at 230V or 16A at 110V.
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Checkers Industrial Safety Products' low profile top-loading cable protectors are available in 1-, 2-, 3-, or 5-channel models. They are 1.25" high with a .75" channel height and feature Dog-Bone connectors for modular interconnectivity and storage.
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LONDON – XL Events stayed busy in 2009 with a variety of events, many of which presented unique AV challenges that had to be overcome. Highlights including the Wella ITV Awards (pictured here), Clothes Show Live, Speakeasy, REGIS, Samsung Corby Global Launch, Carphone Warehouse GP Event and the Mini United event at Silverstone Race Track.
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LONDON – White Light is supplying Vari-Lite's VLX LED fixtures for Eddie Izzard's Stripped touring rig. LD Keith Johnson specified the 28 of the units, primarily to light the audience in large arenas, and called the fixtures "very fast," "very bright" and "very reliable."
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NEW YORK – A-V Services has installed Vista Spyder video/widescreen display processors for three large video walls on the trading floors at Dow Jones's new midtown Manhattan space.
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NEW YORK – TMB added Bryan Reiss, a 15-year industry veteran, to its North American sales group. His role will be primarily in customer development. Reiss is a graduate of Adelphi University with a BFA in Theater Design.
Read More »BELFAST – Production Services Ireland (PSI) once again supplied lighting, rigging and crew for the 2009 Young Voices Christmas Concert, staged in the city's Odyssey Arena with a lighting design by Joe Byrne and produced by London-based Sound & Light Productions.
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