ORLANDO — InfoComm International announced that Adele De Berri, the founder Da-Lite Screen Company, has been posthumously awarded the first InfoComm International Adele De Berri Pioneers of AV Award.
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DETROIT —The Detroit Science Center recently opened the Toyota Engineering Theater (TET) with X-4D motion EFX seats, projectors, screens and other gear supplied by MediaMation, Inc.
Read More »BILLERICA, MA — Broadcast Pix and First Option Capital announced a new financing program designed to help U.S.-based dealers and customers upgrade to new technology without a large initial cash outlay.
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LONDON — Scottish singer Susan Boyle is emblematic of the out-of-the-ordinary talents that turn up on Britain’s Got Talent, a show that features dancers, comedy, and sideshow acts along with vocalists.
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BARCELONA, Spain — Barco’s wrap-around LED screen for U2’s 360° tour is the world’s first transformable screen, able to change shape in all directions during the concert, and it’s also the biggest LED screen used so far in concert touring, with more than 500,000 pixels of video in a screen measuring 24 meters by 16 meters.
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NASHVILLE — Video and lighting filled the void left by the absence of traditional scenery for this year’s CMT Music Awards, broadcast live from the Sommet Center.
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Michael Vergauwen, 52, died June 28 in a drowning accident in Lake Michigan. Vergauwen was executive vice president and COO of AVI Systems and secretary/treasurer of InfoComm International.
Read More »NEW YORK — The ESTA Foundation launched eSET, an Internet-based source for terminology used within the entertainment technology industry.
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LONDON — Oasis’ current Dig Out Your Soul world tour is using over 140 i-Pix BB4 wash lights for its stadium stops, along with 17 i-Pix BB7s — which i-Pix said is the largest number of its LED fixtures used on any touring production so far.
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WILLEBROEK, Belgium — AED Sales was named by German Light Products (GLP) as its exclusive distributor for all of GLP’s lighting products in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg, effective July 1, 2009.
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ROZNOV POD RADHOSTEM, Czech Republic — Robe’s Czech and Slovakian distributor KVS recently specified and supplied Robe moving lights to the Janikova Stodola Theatre, part of the historical experience that’s a key draw at Wallachian Open Air Museum in Robe’s home town here.
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LONDON — PRG’s Scenic Technologies group got the chance to introduce a new overhead automation system and two flying scenic elements when The Circus Starring Britney Spears tour began its European leg at London’s O2 Arena, even though the division received the request to design and build the system only about four weeks prior to installation.
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