Product News

Avolites’ Titan v10 software is now available to download for free onto all consoles from the Tiger Touch Pro (inclusive) onwards. Some older consoles may be compatible with v10 if an upgrade kit is fitted; if you are unsure please contact Avolites. Titan v10 is the result of a year of research and development by a dedicated team of Avolites developers, enhancing the best loved features of Titan v9 and introducing a wealth of new ones. Many of the new features have been created in response to user and industry feedback.

The Axis Grid from Mega-Lite offers up an array of eye-candy effects with infinite pan and tilt, making it a dynamic moving head fixture. This 36 LEDs are arranged in a grid capable of pixel control for displaying letters, numbers and shapes. The 10W RGBW LEDs are also designed to create a colorful, punchy beam. The Axis Grid is controlled via DMX 512 or Art-Net and has a macro channel featuring pre-programmed letters and numbers.

Ayrton is extending its RS line of products with the AlienPix-RS, a multi-rotational fixture that combines a variety of effects within a single luminaire. Developed to give lighting designers more scope and inspiration to enhance their work, the AlienPix-RS provides six extraordinary beams of light and eight continuous rotational axes. AlienPix-RS is formed of five spot heads surrounding a central disk, each of which contains a tight, 3.5-degree RGBW LED emitter. Each emitter has a center-beam luminous intensity of over 180 candelas per lumen and can be controlled individually. The five surrounding spot heads can each tilt continuously as the main saucer with central emitter pans, tilts and rotates in any direction. Powerful tri-phase stepper motors allow fast, accurate and silent positioning.  In total AlienPix-RS can simultaneously perform up to eight multi-directional continuous rotations and deliver a total light output up to 6,000 lumens/1,080,000 cd. The fixture is well suited for crazy configurations of light, color and movement that redefine the mid-air space.

ADJ’s Ninja 5RX is a new multi-beam effect fixture with four independently tilting mirrors and a range of color/GOBO effects. It makes use of the Philips MSD Platinum 5R discharge lamp, co-engineered with ADJ. The fixture promises to give users the ability to scatter slicing beams of light around the room, stage or dance-floor, for an eye-catching, crowd-pleasing display.

Digital Projection International’s (DPI) E-Vision Laser 8500, featured at InfoComm in Las Vegas earlier this month, offers users 8,500 lumens and 20,000 hours of illumination. This single chip projector was developed with DPI’s ‘Fit and Forget’ directive, promising that it will need only minimal maintenance throughout the lifetime of the display.

Hitachi Kokusai added High Dynamic Range (HDR) capability across its line of Ultra High Definition (UHD) 4K and HDTV broadcast cameras. These HDR-upgraded cameras will be unveiled at the upcoming Telemundo Cine Video Television Expo—an annual international video equipment trade show—taking place June 28-July 1 at the Mexico City World Trade Center.

ADJ’s new ellipsoidal fixtures, the Encore Profile 1000 WW and Encore Profile 1000 Color, feature powerful COB LEDs, built-in manual zoom and focus, framing shutters and GOBO slots. These flexible lighting units are well suited for use for the stages of theatres, churches, concert venues, conferences and special events.

Chauvet Professional’s Rogue R1 FX-B, the company’s latest addition to its line of Rogue fixtures, features five individually controlled pixel mappable 15-watt RGBW LEDs. The company also promises strikingly fast movements and infinitely variable pan and tilt options for a wide variety of high impact looks.

Blizzard Lighting’s Oberon Profile LED spotlights include the new Oberon Profile NZ and Oberon Profile WZ. These ellipsoidal imaging spotlights promise high intensity sharp or soft edged beams, well suited for use within theatres, studio applications, nightclubs or anywhere that precisely controlled accent spotlighting is needed.

ETC updated its Unison Mosaic Show Controller X (MSCX) with a smaller version housed in a one-unit, 19-inch rack-mount enclosure. The updated Show Controller X is offered with capacities from 5,120 channels (10 universes) up to 50,000 channels of DMX-over-Ethernet. It is compatible with all existing and new Mosaic control systems that utilize Mosaic Designer 2 software.

Whirlwind is venturing into the case-building business. The Rochester, NY-based company is starting with cases for its own products and plans to expand into a broader array of case designs. Marketed under the Cyclone brand, the cases feature Colson casters, flush mounted MOL latches and Marine grade HDPE panels.

Ayrton’s MagicBurst is a new high-power graphic LED strobe featuring continuous, unlimited rotation on its pan and tilt axis. The fixture, which is the company’s first strobe unit, first burst onto the world stage at Prolight + Sound 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this year. MagicBurst’s 384 x 384 mm squared face supports 3,840 high-output white LEDs grouped into 64 pixels on an 8 x 8 matrix. With a new ultra-compact 1,300W power supply, MagicBurst promises peak light output of more than 240,000 lumens (calibrated at 5600K) for several seconds, and the fixture can put that into continuous rotation.