NORTHFIELD, OH – Stage Research is updating Light Shop, its online database of everything lighting, to be a website instead of an application. The company is also offering a free, three-month trial to lighting and theater professionals. "We decided to release our entire database of lighting fixtures, gobos, gels and bulbs to the lighting community at no charge," said Stage Research co-founder, Carlton Guc. "Light Shop is constantly refreshed with current industry data and is useful for finding specific information quickly and easily."
The site offers users ways to find items like replacement bulbs for thousands of fixtures and gobos from more than 10,000 manufacturers' stock patterns, download a PDF manual for a console, read news on product announcements and find out about upcoming industry events.
"In addition, the new Light Shop Online application will integrate into our SoftPlot and LightFactory software for design and show execution," Guc said. "Customers can collect and build a ‘project' that can be imported into SoftPlot or LightFactory to either build or run a show."
Following the free three-month beta period, general data will remain free and a yearly subscription (to be announced) will be in effect for specific data.
For more information, please visit www.lightshoponline.com and www.stageresearch.com.
