Product News

LAS VEGAS – Munich-based DoPchoice will be featuring its Snap Technology, Snapgrids, Snapbags and Butterfly grids at the 2016 NAB show in booth C11146. The products promise filmmakers with easy set-up and teardown.

AAdyn Technology (AAdynTech) noted that four models in the company’s JAB and Punch fixture lines now have increases of at least 30 percent in output while holding the line on energy consumption. The enhanced fixtures include the JAB Daylight, JAB V2 Variable, JAB Hurricane, and Punch Plus, pictured here, which is nearly 50 percent brighter than before.

TORONTO, ON, – Grid Well noted that its patented and patent-pending designs for arbor related products have been licensed to six stage equipment companies, and that its products will be on display at USITT in Salt Lake City later this month, via licencees including BellaTEX Stage Curtains, Booth #1110; Thern Stage Equipment, Booth #1911; and Blackwell in the AKT3 Booth #339.

Staging Concepts’s Uplift Stage device is engineered to allow two operators to quickly and easily raise and lower platforms in place, Uplift is the next generation of staging solutions from Staging Concepts. This product is a scissor lift stage designed with modern technology, allowing flexible entertainment spaces to transform into multiple configurations with ease. Standard platforms can be raised and lowered to multiple settings from 8.5 to 48 inches. The aluminum frame construction is designed for both maximum strength and minimum weight.

FRANKFURT, Germany – Chauvet Professional will be featuring its Maverick series at Prolight + Sound next month (Hall 4 Stand G45). Featuring the MK2 Wash, MK1 Hybrid and MK2 Spot (with more fixtures to come),  the new series promises to serve up an arsenal of performance features intended to shatter budget barriers, free the imagination and set a new standard in their price category.

ADJ’s Vizi Hybrid 16RX promises a new level of power, Prism Layering and GOBO Morphing, adding versatility to this moving head fixture, which starts with a Philips Platinum 16R MSD discharge lamp as the light source.

The new Mobile Beat MAX MK2 from X-Laser is designed to help mobile entertainers craft aerial beam shows and graphics displays at gigs of up to 1,000 people. Capable projecting impressive graphics precisely, even at distances up to 100 feet, the . For total creative control, the Mobile Beat MAX MK2 offers ILDA input and DMX input and output along with its 12-channel DMX capabilities.

AMSTERDAM – Calibre featured its first ever-combined video and audio 4K scaler-switchers at ISE 2016 in Amsterdam last month. The seires includes four new models: HQView620A, HQView625A, HQView630A and HQView670A.

Elation’s RDMX6S 6-way RDM/DMX data splitter promises to be useful in maintaining proper data levels over long runs or several runs of RDM or DMX signal. The RDMX6S helps to correct disruptions in the signal by splitting the DMX/RDM data link into six separate branches while boosting the weak signal to its original output level before it becomes too low. RDM E1.20 compliant, the RDMX6S features opto-isolated DMX output ports with DMX loop through port with built-in termination. It houses 5pin XLR input, a 5pin XLR thru output, (6) 5pin XLR outputs and powerCON In connection. Wrapped in a rugged die-cast aluminum housing, a single-unit mounting bracket is included for truss/clamp installation and optional single and dual unit rack mount kits are available. Compact at 6.8 x 6.7 x 2.9 inches (173 x 170 x 74 mm, L x W x H) and light at 2.1 lbs. (1.0 kg), the unit’s universal multi-voltage auto switching power supply allows it to be used anywhere in the world. 

PixelFLEX’s FLEXLite NXG updates the company’s FLEXLite product line with improved pitch resolution options, higher refresh rates and a new die-cast frame.

Avolites’ feature-rich Titan V10 will be featured at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt next month, from April 5-8. The company says Titan V10 OS is packed full of a new features including a full 3D visualizer powered by the Capture engine, which is designed to let users create and edit shows right inside the Titan interface and lay out fixtures in the space using the console’s encoder wheels. V10 also allows the user to view intensity values in one place via the Intensity Grid. This clearly shows levels, source of information, whether increasing or decreasing and tracking information. Avolites will also be exhibiting its ‘supercharged’ Ai R Series of media servers and feature its Ai V9 software, with an all-new Audio Engine, a Dynamic Content Page, a new User Interface, and 58 new and updated effects. Avolites will be on Booth E80, Hall 3 Level 0 during the show.

ETC is enhancing its line of Unison Echo products with EchoAccess and the company’s DMX Scene Controller. Both are compatible with all currently shipping Echo hardware products. Users can configure and customize self-contained systems, presets and zones while maintaining system-wide control. Combined with EchoAccess, the DMX Scene Controller allows for lighting hue, saturation and color to be modified locally or remotely for architectural lighting installations. Existing Echo products have also been updated in terms of capabilities and features in order to better meet energy codes, such as ASHRAE 90.1, CA Title 20/24 and IECC.