ORLANDO – Christie has announced plans for InfoComm 2017, set to take place June 14-16 in Orlando. The Christie Center will showcase technologies including Christie Boxer and Pandoras Box Quad Server (screenshot pictured here); warped and blended visuals; 3D mapping using Christie Mystique; plus numerous LED walls and large-format LCD panels
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NEW YORK – WorldStage supported the 2017 Turner Upfront and NewFront events with LED video displays and media server systems, along with an extensive camera package and a few unique audience engagement elements.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA – Upstage Video was tapped to provide video elements for the premiere of La La Land In Concert, A live-to-film celebration at the Hollywood Bowl. The May 26 and 27 events were staged by the creative team from Kraft-Engle, and Bowl promoter Andrew Hewitt & Bill Silva Presents with a 100-piece orchestra, choir and jazz band playing live music from the film.
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ORLANDO – Analog Way will be showcasing its latest solutions and innovations for professional AV applications in Booth #943 at InfoComm 2017, June 14-16 at the Orange County Convention Center. In addition, the company will be supporting five vendor partners at the show with products, setup and peripherals to demonstrate Analog Way equipment at work in large-scale displays. Pictured here is the VIO 4K converter.
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SINGAPORE – Christie’s rental staging partner Hexogon Solution Pte Ltd created a visual spectacle seen by tens of thousands of spectators who turned up at Gardens by the Bay for a multimedia showcase as part of its 5th anniversary celebrations June 3-4. The impressive projection mapping project included the use of 32 Christie Roadster HD20K-J 3DLP® projectors.
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LONDON – d3 plays a key role in the complex and dynamic visuals showcased on the world tour for Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and record producer, The Weeknd. “Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour” is the sixth tour by The Weeknd; it supports his “Starboy” album released last fall. The tour, which has already covered Europe, South America, North America and Canada, will wrap up back in Europe this summer.
MELBOURNE, Au. – The Australian TV industry’s biggest night, the 59th annual Logie Awards, were held at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium on Sunday 23 April 2017, broadcast live on the Nine Network. Always a great opportunity for the broadcaster to show off its tech capabilities, fantastic visuals were spread across three huge screens onstage, a wrap-around screen surrounding the audience, and pixel mapped to onstage fixtures and LED chandeliers. Helming the media server and console operation was Lynden Gare, director of Melbourne-based lighting and production company Colourblind, who relied on Green Hippo’s Hippotizer Media Servers.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Christie 360 Experiential Studios, a digital strategy and content powerhouse for Christie®, has joined forces with TCL Chinese Theatre, the most iconic movie palace in the world, to captivate visitors and movie goers with a high-impact multimedia production using the most advanced projection technologies.
LONDON, UK,– Kiev delivered on its promise to present an awesome show and Green Hippo technology was key to the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest looking better than ever. Bringing together a crack team of skilled practitioners – this year’s Green Hippo Eurovision team’s video production heavily featured in the visual design of the show. Highlights included a large LED wall behind the stage, LED floor, Pixel-mapped lights and a projection-mapped arch over the stage. To help ensure the polished performance the MA2 and time code-driven set-up used a total 16 Green Hippo Boreal touring Media Servers, all running Hippotizer V4.2.1 software.
CYPRESS, CALIF.– One of the nation’s leading Fortune 500 companies showcased thought leadership conferences with non-traditional visual support at multi-venue, multi-screen events powered by Christie®. Unlimited Visibility Inc., led by IBM-partner Drury Design Dynamics, applied their technical prowess to both IBM InterConnect 2017, a global cloud conference, and IBM Amplify, a conference on Watson marketing disciplines, held earlier this year in Las Vegas. Christie Pandoras Box plus Christie Widget Designer enabled the combined team to turn the complex process of mixing traditional presentations and a wide variety of media content into a simplified task with visually compelling results.
LOS ANGELES—Lighting Director Matt Firestone recently installed 30 Martin VDO Sceptron LED video fixtures on the set of Love Connection, the classic 1980s-era game show which will return to television in May 2017. Airing on Fox and hosted by Andy Cohen, the reboot will feature the same familiar game format, with a completely modernized set design. Firestone used the VDO Sceptrons to create a dynamic background during specific shots when both the contestant and the host are on screen.
HELSINKI, – Finish singing sensation Saara Aalto – aka the Snow Fairy – played a sold-out homecoming gig at Helsinki’s Hartwall arena and Green Hippo technology ensured a great view for all. Saara, who shot to fame in the UK through her runner’s up spot in 2016’s X Factor, is a firm favorite in Finland, having appeared in Finland’s Got Talent 2007 and The Voice of Finland in 2012. Bright Finland, the Finland and Scandinavia-based experience provider, was at the helm for Saara’s 360° screen show employing a Green Hippo Hippotizer Boreal to control six iMAG screens.