LONDON – For the sixth consecutive year, XL Video supplied full video production for Strictly Come Dancing – The Live Tour, which once again drew crowds to various U.K. arenas. Video plays a key role for the live shows, where celebrity dance couples battle for supremacy on the dance floor. The 2013 tour included reigning Strictly champion and Olympic gymnast, Louis Smith, dancing with Ola Jordan.
Read More »DENVER – Richter Scale Productions Inc. recently added a modular outdoor 8mm LED video wall to its inventory of video, audio and lighting equipment available for indoor and outdoor events. The new GLIC video wall is new to the U.S. and Richter Scale has 120 panels available.
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LONDON —XL Video UK supplied LED screens, projection system and Catalyst media server control for emerging singer/songwriter Rita Ora’s first full production tour of the UK. The trek promotes the artist’s debut Ora album, which includes the Guetta-esque single, “Radioactive.”
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CYPRESS, CA – Christie and Obscura Digital have created a panoramic display using 160 Christie MicroTiles installed in the lobby of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) headquarters. The SFPUC Digital Arts Wall is a seamless curved digital canvas that provides an interactive educational experience for the public and an infrastructure for new content to be continually updated.
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LONDON – XL Video supplied projection, LED screens, cameras and Catalyst control to the first UK arena tour by Plan B (Ben Drew). Creative Director and Lighting / Visuals designer Louis Oliver and Ben Drew developed the stage look together and came to XL Video with a plan. XL’s Project Manager Paul “Macca” McCauley demonstrated several options including the potential of effects like masking and mapping before they chose a hardware and software solution for the tour, which gave the stage an epic cinematic appearance.
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BURBANK, CA – Chaos Visual Productions is providing video to Maroon 5 as they launch the spring leg of their 2013 Overexposed North American tour. The show is conceived, created and designed by Demfis Fyssicopulos, the tour’s production designer and artistic director, along with Maroon 5.
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LOS ANGELES – WorldStage developed and installed a live, moving LED display system for the new studio design for ESPN’s premier NBA show, Kia NBA Countdown.
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NASHVILLE — For his recent Take a Back Road tour, Rodney Atkins used a lightweight and flexible LED Curtain video wall from PixelFlex to maximize the concert audiences’ experience through visual images and effects. Atkins’ team plans to use the curtain again for their dates starting in March.
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YPRES, Belgium – Belgium’s new Flanders Fields Museum interprets the regional stories of the First World War using modern museum techniques and multimedia for visitors of today and tomorrow. projectiondesign F22, F32 and F35 wqxga projectors and WB processors were provided by specialist museums system integrator, Ocular BVBA for use some of the exhibit areas, aimed to provide a more in-depth look at how museum visitors deal with war and peace.
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SANTA MONICA, CA – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs of New Castle, DE, supplied equipment and crew for the Cartoon Network’s Hall of Game Awards 2013 in Santa Monica, CA. Designed for fans to honor their favorite sports celebrities and sports moments of the year, the event design called for a “high energy, off-the-wall, multi-platform experience.” Pete’s Big TVs worked with Dempsey Productions, LD Tom Kenny and set designer Anton Goss to fulfill the experiential requisite, using digiLED high resolution video panels for the visual environment.
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