Product News

WAUKESHA, WI – The Torrent F3 is the latest addition to Blizzard Lighting’s Torrent series of LED moving heads.  Equipped with a 50-watt LED light source, Blizzard designed the fixture based on feature requests from their mobile DJ, club install and small-to-midsize production users. The Torrent F3 features a rotating gobo wheel with seven new rotating, interchangeable gobos plus open, and a static gobo wheel with eight gobos plus open.  There are seven dichroic colors and a 3-facet rotating prism fitted as standard.

MOONACHIE, NJ – Lamp manufacturer Bulbrite has expanded its Nostalgic Collection with a variety of new and exclusive designs including the new miniNostalgic Collection. The Nostalgic Collection is available in 10 distinct shapes including globe, tubular, signature (Edison-style), and classic light bulbs, in a variety of sizes, and four unique filament designs which include Hairpin, Thread, Spiral and Loop. The miniNostalgic lamps feature an E12 base, lamp life ranging from 2000-3000 hours and a warm, amber glow. All miniature nostalgic lamps are offered in 25-watt sizes.

Blizzard Lighting’s Fab5 Series LED fixtures will incorporate 15W, 5-in-1 RGBAW LEDs with internal color mixing achieved with red, green, blue, amber and white nodes. The first two fixtures, due out in November, are the Puck Fab5, pictured left, and ToughPAR Fab5, below right. The Puck Fab5, a new variation of the Puck series flat LED par can, will feature seven of the new 15W 5-in-1 LEDs.

MONTREAL – Luminex Network Intelligence, a Belgium-based developer of lighting control, pro audio and video data distribution equipment for the entertainment industry, is debuting in the US its new range of Gigabit Ethernet switches to cope with the demands of lighting and AV installations. The three new models – GigaCore 12, GigaCore 14R and GigaCore 16Xt – are  managed through a web interface.  They meet and support all industry protocols and offer a user-friendly experience with an industry-specific outlook and optimized defaults.  The products come with a built-in redundancy system providing a reliable and easy-to-set-up backbone for users’ networks.

MIDDLETON, WI – ETC is expanding its dimming and power control line with the introduction of the Source Four Dimmer, which can be attached to any conventional Source Four to provide per-fixture distributed dimming in 120V markets. The Source Four Dimmer uses ETC’s new ES (Electronic Silent) technology for fan-free, noiseless operation for acoustically sensitive venues. ETC also introduces the ES750 Dimmer, which has the same functionality as the Source Four Dimmer, but it can work with any type of fixture. The ES750 can be a remote dimmer for any application and comes equipped with a power input and output to a choice of connectors.

TORONTO – Cast Software has recently released WYSIWYG R29, the new version of CAST Software’s industry standard pre-visualization suite. Among the new features are the Six Degrees of Freedom Camera and Shaded View Selection. The Six Degrees feature means users may position the camera in any way they choose, mirroring the complete freedom of movement that they would have with a physical camera in a live situation. Shaded View Selection speeds up the process of selecting fixtures and changing characteristics while in design mode.

LOS ANGELES – GLP has launched the impression X4. The fixture incorporates 19 quad color RGBW LEDs, each rated at 15 watts, to offer a single homogenized color output from its front lens across a wide color spectrum from deep saturates to soft pastel shades. For special effects, onboard patterns are available, as is the ability for designers to create their own effects and chases on the fly.

FREDRIKSTAD, Norway – The F85 3-chip DLP projector is the latest 2D and 3D capable projector to join projectiondesign’s line up of innovative projectors. As well as 2D imaging, the projector can be used in active or passive 3D stereoscopic mode removing the requirement for multiple projectors in stereoscopic set up. The projector benefits from proprietary Advanced Color Optical Processing (ACOP), which combines both fixed and motorized optical filters to enable optical calibration with near infinite accuracy and without any loss of bit depth. Combined with its RealColor color management system, ACOP ensures on-site color calibration to achieve any desired color standard.