Product News

Designed for use with floor-standing truss podiums, the DT-Dyno Wheel from DuraTruss provides lighting users with a more flexible framework on which to mount their fixtures, making it work well as a truss-topper for touring rigs and stage setups.

FRANKFURT, Germany – Light Converse Ltd launched its LightConverse 3D Show Platform Version 58 at Prolight+Sound in early April, and also announced the winners for this year’s LightConverse and High End Systems Lighting Challenge at the show. Jointly organized with High End Systems, the contest once again gave participants an opportunity to show off their lighting talent.

ETC added two new features for users of its Unison Echo control systems – Echo Expansion Bridge and Echo-Echoflex Interface. Echo Expansion Bridge (pictured here) gives users access to up to 64 Echo devices, such as Inspire stations. The new Echo-Echoflex interface has a built-in 902 MHz EnOcean radio to enable communication between Echo and Echoflex wireless devices without any additional wiring.

ERLANGER, KY. – tvONE will be showcasing a full range of industry-leading video processing and signal distribution products alongside its newest  Universal Rack Mounting System innovation, ONErack, in booth C6818 during InfoComm 2016. The exhibtion takes place June 8-10 in Las Vegas.

Hubbell Control Solutions’ new CXSW switches are a line of low voltage switches designed specifically for use with the CX Lighting Panel. The CXSW switches are offered in 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 programmable button configurations. Hubbell Control Solutions leverages a history of innovation to create future-proof lighting controls.

ADJ’s new Asteroid 1200 is designed to send super-tight beams and distinct pixel-mapped patterns hurtling through the air and down onto the dance-floor. Packing limitless dual-directional continuous rotation and quad-color LEDs into one portable source, the Asteroid 1200 promises a full array of pixel-mappable visual effects.

John McKernon and City Theatrical have announced that Lightwright 6, the newest version of the industry leading, multi award winning software for managing entertainment lighting paperwork, is now shipping and is available through City Theatrical dealers worldwide. Lightwright is an iconic industry standard on Broadway and in other areas of live entertainment, and was created to help designers and electricians record and keep track of the vast amount of data needed to install and maintain a lighting installation. As the lighting world has increased in complexity due to the proliferation of moving lights and LEDs, the organizational demands on lighting designers, design assistants, and electricians has continued to grow.  Lightwright 6, for the first time, fulfills a longtime industry dream of controlling the flow of lighting data from design to console without needing to enter data multiple times by hand, while documenting up to 45,000 universes of data.

Blizzard Lighting’s ThunderStik linear wash light has five 15W RGBW Quad-Color OSRAM LEDs with pixel control and a narrow 5-degree beam angle. The fixture also features a quiet-moving 250-degree motorized tiltable head (with three-phase motors) and Y-axis rotation as well. ThunderStik also comes with a set of lens filters to diffuse the fixture’s sharp output to a soft color blend, increasing the beam angle up to 30 or 60 degrees. Users can control the ThunderStik in either Reduced Mode (12-channel) or Standard Mode (32-channel). Both allow smooth 0-100 percent linear dimming, multiple strobe effects, macro effects, RGBW color mixing, separate background color control, built-in patterns, and speed controllable scanner effects. This fixture is equipped with a four-button LCD control panel, compact and sleek housing, powerCON compatible power in/out connections, 3-pin/5-pin DMX in/out jacks and integral Omega mounts. The fixture is also backed with Blizzard’s two-year warranty. MSRP is $899.99.

Flex Rental Solutions released version 4.16.3 of the company’s flagship web-based rental management software during the first week of May. This is the fourth major (and fifth total) software release by the company since the start of 2016. This newest release includes several new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

SKB just introduced their new 3RS Series 30″ Deep Shock Rack Transport Cases. And Canyonwest Cases is making them available to the military and commercial companies needing indestructible cases to transport sensitive electronic equipment.

d3 Technologies announced r13, the company’s latest software release. r13 has a mix of new and improved features including a new user interface and new HMSF timeline designed to enhance workflow. Other improvements were made to the software’s matrix control and time code readout module, and there is an upgraded web module as well.

DoPchoice has redesigned the classic softbox into the quick-deploying Snapbag, a lightweight, elegant solution for LED lights. Softboxes have become popular with LED lights to soften the light emitted and give DPs and gaffers more control. But the classic softbox becomes a project each time it has to be deployed and re-stored due to its complicated assembly.