Product News

LOS ANGELES  –  Elation Professional’s Event Cylinder is a one-foot-diameter (304 mm) transparent tubular-shaped color-changing battery powered RGB LED fixture. Wireless control and an IP65 rating will allow the unit to be used in usual and unusual locations, from a beach party to corporate events. When fully charged, the Event Cylinder’s battery will last 12 hours.

CLARKSTON, MI  – High Resolution Systems has released UDC 4.0, the latest upgrade for its software-based Universal Device Controller.  The new release includes new features, including a Software Developer Kit. The SDK requires basic programming knowledge, which can be learned through High Resolution Systems’ software courses.

DALLAS – Philips Entertainment is now shipping the Showline SL BAR 640 and SL BAR 660, 4-ft and 6-ft RGBW linear wash luminaires capable of being used as a wash or as a direct-view linear bar. The fixtures also feature the Harmonize Color Calibration System, which assures the luminaires will match from fixture to fixture and pixel to pixel. The SL BAR 660 produces 20,000 lumens of output and the SL BAR 640 produces more than 13,000 lumens of output. Both feature a 60-degree beam angle, built-in effects and chases, an auto-orienting LCD menu, multiple dimming curves and color modes, among other features.

RED Lighting’s compact RED MX console promises to serve as an intuitive, ergonomic, reliable and low-cost lighting control solution. Users get access to six DMX universes directly on the controller, 3072 configurable channels and a GUI designed for easy programming. Users can control up to 576 cue lists with a maximum of 999 cues each and 12 keys offer direct access to playback and programming functions. The console has a 7-inch TFT touch screen color display, LCD digital keys, four encoder wheels, and RED Lighting is developing a “wing” module that will work with the RED MX.

TAF’s round-shaped versions of its classic two-way 90 degree truss corners is available for 290mm and 12-inch truss (FT34-C21-R). The company is also now developing a three-way 90-degree version of the rounded truss corner (FT34-C30-R) that is expected to become available in November. After that, TAF will focus on developing rounded corners for its 9-inch box and triangle truss systems.

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.