Product News

The Serapid Telescopic Mast is designed to support any type of equipment used in television, film, worship and performing arts production, including cameras, lights and microphones.

Pathway Connectivity's Pathport Manager 5.1 offers RDM control and an IP-address auto-corrector. The software also recognizes the Strand Palette consoles, ShowCAD controllers and the Jands Vista, and will discover and configure the new Pathport VIA 10+1 gigabit switch, introduced at LDI 2010. It also unlocks full protocol support in Strand and Entertainment Technology raceway dimmers, including Art-Net and sACN.

Elation Professional's Platinum Spot 5R Pro is an upgraded version of the Platinum Spot 5R DMX moving head. Both fixtures use Philips MSD Platinum 5R lamp technology to produce brightness comparable to a 575-watt fixture with only half the energy draw and a lengthy 2,000-hour lamp life. But the equally-compact-and-bright Platinum Spot 5R DMX adds an expanded array of professional features and effects, making it well-suited for theaters, stage shows, concerts, productions, churches, nightclubs and other entertainment venues.

Elation Professional's EPV762 MH is a high-resolution 7.62mm pitch moving head video panel that can rotate just like a moving yoke light fixture, panning a full 540° and tilting up to 265°.

The new Stagebar 2 LED luminaire from Martin Professional has twice the lumen output and 10 times the intensity of the Stagebar 54. It also has a new lens design for a narrower, more concentrated field of light for better beam control and greater light intensity for improved floodlighting capability. A choice of lens options, which includes an opalescent diffuser lens for scenic on-camera looks, provides designers with beam angle flexibility.

LSC Lighting Systems' Redback Wallmount range, which previewed at trade shows last fall, is now available. Features include optional relay channels, RDM, various output connector configurations, external wallplate control and a slim profile.

Christie's LWU505 (WUXGA 1920 x 1200 native resolution) digital projector targets educational facilities, corporations, government agencies and houses of worship applications requiring a high brightness and cost-effective widescreen LCD projector at 5000 ANSI lumens.

Juice Goose introduced seven power distribution models in the XP product series. Four models can be mounted in a conventional 19-inch horizontal configuration or mounted vertically on the inside wall of a rack in a "zero U" configuration.

Martin Professional's PC-based lighting software, LightJockey 2, is now shipping with the new Martin One-Key protection device, one Martin USB DUO DMX and the MSD5 MC Edition 3D Visualizer.

The AT-laser projector series from tarm Showlaser, seen at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, is a modularly designed, multi-color laser system based on optically-pumped semiconductor lasers covering a full range of colors.

The new Wireless Uplighting System from Omnisistem is a self-contained uplight controlled via a wireless DMX transmitter which can transmit up to 400 feet. The 12-unit set is sold with a custom roadcase. (Individual LED pods are not sold separately.)

The TMH-10 automated moving yoke fixture from Steinigke Showtechnic features a single 60-watt LED source, consumes 170 watts and weighs 17.6 pounds. Features include a 3-facet prism, color wheel with seven colors plus open, gobo wheel with six rotating gobos plus open and separate channels for strobe and dimmer.