Christie MicroTiles are modular digital display tiles that can be stacked and clustered like building blocks to create display walls of various shapes and sizes. Christie cites color and image reproduction, wide viewing angles, and a near-absence of seams on display walls as advantages, with only a 1mm gap between the tiles.
Read More »EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — Traxon Technologies and e:cue lighting controls has named Matthew Burstein director of technical sales and project management. Burstein is a 20-year lighting veteran with experience in entertainment, event and architectural lighting and also theatrical lighting and controls.
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ORLANDO — Authors Richard Cadena, James Moody and Steven Shelley will be squaring off later this week — not in a boxing ring or octagon, but at PLSN’s LDI booth #1506 (Friday, Nov. 20, from 3 to 4 p.m.).
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PARIS — Robert Juliat celebrated its 90th Anniversary at SIEL-SATIS, and to commemorate the occasion, created a “museum” at the entrance to Porte de Versailles in which were exhibited an array of historic lanterns and lighting products.
Read More »VANCOUVER, BC — Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. announced that Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, the Canadian broadcaster of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, will use 39 new Hitachi SK-HD1000 multi-standard, multiformat studio/field cameras for its coverage of the Games.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. — Pete Robinson from Manchester based lighting company DBN was asked to light and provide scenic elements for the 2009 Co-Operative Good With Food Awards and gala dinner, staged at Manchester Central (formally the GMEX).
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American DJ’s new ProPAR 56RGB is an RGB color-mixing LED fixture and the ProPAR 56CWWW is a warm/cool white LED fixture. Each features 36 1-watt LEDs: the ProPAR 56RGB has 12 red, 12 green and 12 blue LEDs and the ProPAR 56CWWW has 18 warm white (3000K) and 18 cool white (6,000K) LEDs.
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Gerriets’ G-TR dance floor tape applicator gives users a way of taping dance floors and carpets in an upright position. The ergonomically designed tool, which weights in at 11 pounds, can reduce stress on back and knees and helps get taping jobs done three to four times faster than working by hand.
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The new digital light meter from Ideal offers four measuring ranges up to 200,000 lux or 20,000 footcandles with an accuracy of +/-3 percent at a retail price of $149 (U.S.), or about 25 percent less than competitive light meters with similar feature-sets.
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The new generation of the Lightconverse 3D Virtual Show Platform provides a solution for integrating and visualizing multiple show related disciplines in real-time including lighting, video, laser, pyro and DMX-controlled moving objects in a photo-realistic environment.
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Martin Professional’s new software version 2.60 for Maxxyz lighting controllers includes Mark Cues, effect generator macros, grouping functions and more. A single cue or the entire cue list can be set as Mark Cue, a.k.a. “Move-in-Black,” suppressing the need to program standby cues.
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SpotTrack is a new tool for making and managing followspot cue sheets from the people behind FocusTrack. It can manage shows with one to four spots and reduces the amount of typing required. It provides more information than spot cues including spot setup (type, color load, operator), details of characters in the show (name, cast name, understudy name), pictures of characters and cue lists, which can be imported from FocusTrack which can, in turn, import data from ETC Eos/Ion, MA grandMA and Strand 500-series consoles.
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