Product News

Cast Software's Vivien 2010 Virtual Event Designer is available for download (to members only). Vivien is a 3D event design and sales software designed and built by Cast Software (makers of Wysiwyg).

ArKaos MediaMaster 1.2, for Mac or PC platforms, can play up to eight simultaneous layers of HD video without dropping frames when running on an octo-core server.

Lightronics Par4, with a die cast aluminum housing and aluminum reflector, is rated at 800 watts maximum and uses a 575 or 750 watt halogen bulb with a bi-pin G9.5 base.

StarTech.com has launched three new products in its Converge A/V "UTPE series" family of VGA over Cat 5 Extender devices, designed to extend and split VGA video using Cat 5 cable between the transmitting and display points.

Johnson Systems Inc.'s JSI CD-3000 retrofit control system for Strand CD80 and Strand C21 Series dimmer racks is an expanded version of the "system-on-a-chip" technology used in the company's JS-ICON Series dimmer/relay racks, tested with six months of field installation.

GefenTV is now shipping its Wireless for HDMI 60 GHz extender. This sender/receiver system is the fourth product from Gefen offering wireless video connectivity.

Multiform's MultiBar LED lighting system, for small bands, dance groups, mobile DJs and others, includes four MultiSpot Eco RGB fixtures mounted on a 1-meter extruded aluminum cross bar housing the 16 Channel DMX-controlled power supply.

PowerPix from EldoLED are strings of RGBW LED pixels for general illumination or graphics applications. The DMX-compatible units have "power scaling" technology for a continuous 5W output.

i-Pix 4 and 6 lamp Power Bars can be used to mount the company's new BB1 LED fixtures. The BB1 is fully RDM/DMX enabled, with remote address mode and fixture feedback.

Arena Electrol from Da-Lite Screen Company is a motorized projection screen available in widths over 39 feet for large venues. It is designed with a built-in balancing system and steel cable guides for smooth, even screen retraction and a flat viewing surface.

ETC's Fire and Ice are color-spectrum-specific LED fixtures added to the company's Selador Vivid line. Fire features a warm wash of saturated reds, oranges and ambers. Ice provides, in one fixture, a palette of deep indigo, blue, cyan, green (and a touch of red).

Analog Way's Orchestra Remote Controller is designed to independently or simultaneously manage several switchers such as Di-VentiX II as well as the new Opus system, either as stand-alone boxes or as any combination, including soft-edge blending.