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Norway - The Norsk Film Institute (NFI) in Oslo is the axle upon which the Norwegian film industry revolves. And with over 2000 screenings a year in its Oslo premises, roughly half of which are previews of major international releases for press and cinema owners, having quality vision and sound facilities are a fundamental requirement. It is with this in mind that the NFI has recently installed the first of Alcons' new Cinema Ribbon Monitor Systems (CRMS).

The NFI's Lillebil Room (named after the famous Norwegian actress Lillebil Ibsen) is a 68 capacity screening facility, where a constant series of daytime previews and evening showings keeps its equipment and staff busy.

"The sound has to be fantastic because of the status of the NFI," says the facility's Jan Olsen. &

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UK - Small businesses are hoping to beat the recession by stepping up their sales and marketing strategies, a new survey has revealed. After cutting operating costs to the bare minimum, many smaller firms are hiring sales staff, improving their websites and boosting marketing activities in an effort to tackle tough trading conditions.

Research carried out by the not-for-profit Forum of Private Business (FPB) also found that business owners expect their efforts will pay off. More than half (56%) of those surveyed expect to increase their turnover in 2010 and 44% believe their business will grow.

The findings are the first of the FPB's new 'economy watch' panel - a body of more than 350 members who are sharing their experiences as the economy heads away from recession. The panel is designed to provide an accurate and timely reflection of what small businesses are experiencing on

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Germany - The Proel Group will showcase its sound reinforcement and lighting lines at this year's Prolight + Sound.

After last year's world's first preview of the prototypes, show visitors will be able to appreciate the whole series of Net, which will be available for purchase as of next spring, and Edge Active.

Net is a series of loudspeaker designed "with a particular care for all the details which make a speaker valuable and for the technical solutions allowing these features to be implemented without raising costs". The result is a completely new line combining high value, excellent performances and reasonable price, a high-end product available to all users both for commercial and entertainment purposes.

At Prolight 2010, exhibition also of Active Edge systems: Proel's new solutions for high power professional applications. There are five models in the series:

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USA - Bosch Security Systems has announced that John F. Anderson has assumed the role of product marketing manager, intercom.

Anderson will support the Americas region in his new role, applying his substantial industry experience and strong marketing background to develop and implement marketing strategies for RTS and Telex intercom products. Acting as the focal point for the voice of the customer in this segment, Anderson will report to Daniel Gundlach, VP Marketing - Americas.

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USA - Winter Warpdrive is considered to be a Midwest electronic music phenomenon. This year's highly anticipated event at the Roberts Orpheum Theatre in St. Louis, MO marked one of the first major outings for Spectra Audio Systems' newly acquired self-powered Flex Array rig.

Spectra Audio Systems is a St. Louis based event production company specializing in over-the-top electronic music events, formed in 1994 by partners Timothy Kresko and Casey Hunter to provide sound systems for local area bands. Over the years they have expanded their inventory, and have continually worked to provide its growing client base - which has in the past included such notable names as Disney, ESPN X Games, and World Changers Ministries, as well as theatre companies and major label artists - with the most up-to-date audio technology.

Partner Tim Kresko explains the thinking behind the compan

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UK - White Light provided lighting for the first night party for Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, having also supplied the entire lighting rig to the show itself.

Held at the Old Billingsgate Market, the party was themed on Coney Island, attended by the cast, creative and production teams of the show, the show's producers, plus their guests and countless other celebrities to mark the debut of the sequel to the most successful stage show of all time. White Light's Live Events team, already familiar with the venue from having lit many other parties there, used lighting to transform it into a lavish, opulent space.

The company used a wide range of equipment from its extensive rental stock, including moving lights protected by weatherproof domes and Source Four low-energy spotlights. White Light's team provided a complete ser

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UK - Caroline Felton has been appointed interim Chief Executive at Creative & Cultural Skills. She takes over today from Tom Bewick and will lead Creative & Cultural Skills' next phase of development, creating a new strategic plan with staff and trustees.

Felton, whose extensive experience spans both the commercial and public sectors, said, 'I am extremely pleased to be joining Creative & Cultural Skills when there is so much potential for future development. I have a passionate commitment to skills, training and professional development and believe that there is much more work to be done on this within the creative and cultural industries.

"We will continue to campaign to ensure that education and training genuinely meets the needs of those we represent, and to ensure that the voices of employers across the UK are being heard. I look forward to working with Creative & Cu

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Czech Republic - An Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system was recently employed to manage the celebration of Mass held during an official visit by the Pope to Brno, the Czech Republic's second largest city.

The event was attended by 120,000 members of the public and VIP's including the Czech President, Václav Klaus. The ceremony was held in the grounds of the city's airport, and included seating for the public worshippers, a VIP stage for the Pope and dignitaries, and a second stage for musicians.

Audio was managed by PA company, Audioblue, which selected an iLive system, comprising an iDR10 MixRack and iLive-144 Control Surface, and an RCF speaker system. Audio requirements needed to cover FOH sound, including three delay zones, as well as monitors for the VIP stage and the musicians on the second stage. Due to architectural restrictions, FOH position was located next to

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UK - Following the successful launch of MicroTiles at ISE2010, Amsterdam, Christie has announced changes within its sales structure that assure this new product area is given the appropriate focus.

It has been confirmed that Joe Graziano will fulfil the new role of market development manager - MicroTiles. He has been closely aligned to the launch preparations for MicroTiles, preparing the EMEA market prior to the recent ISE2010 launch platform. His new role will position him as product champion, enabling him to support the regional sales team across EMEA as well as find and close business directly, says the company.

Graziano states: "I am thrilled with the new role and the amazing opportunity I have to be involved with such a special product as MicroTiles. I am eager to get in amongst the EMEA base and all our partners to help them make the most of their business opportun

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UK - Gemma Jaques has joined Richard Martin Lighting as marketing coordinator after five successful years as office manager Neg Earth.

"I am really looking forward to the challenge that lies ahead and being part of a fresh and energetic environment. I hope to bring my previously acquired skills and make a positive contribution to what is an already great set up," says Jaques.

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UK - AC-ET has been promoted to exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for German Lighting Products (GLP). The agreement follows AC-ET's success over the past 12 months supplying the Impression LED moving heads line-up and other GLP products to various entertainment sectors, and helping to strengthen the brand in the UK market.

GLP's director of global key players, Mark Ravenhill, commented: "It's great to have AC-ET as our partner for the UK and Irish marketplaces. They have the ideal experience and resources in place to offer a full service to GLP customers both now, and as we grow our portfolio in the future. We look forward to working with AC-ET on all levels."

The GLP portfolio available from AC-ET includes an extensive range of LED and discharge lamp moving heads, moving mirrors, architectural fixtures, lighting controllers, dimmer packs, DMX accessories and powe

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Germany - American Audio has developed two new performance tools designed to handle the versatility of DJ-ing today - the Radius 3000 Media Player/MIDI Controller and VMS4 Velocity MIDI Station - plus a new portable sound system whose speakers and mixer pack up into one compact unit, the PPA-210. The three innovative products will headline American Audio's display at ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt.

"More than ever today, DJs want versatile pro audio gear that can be used with or without a computer, delivers a high level of performance, and offers the features they need for real world applications, such as easy portability," said Tom Freret, national sales manager for American Audio. "American Audio has developed products like the Radius 3000, VMS4 and PPA-210, which respond to our customers' needs. We are proud to be showing these and other innovative pro audio gea

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Germany - American DJ has "a toolchest of lighting innovations" in store for those who visit its display at ProLight&Sound in Frankfurt. The company will show two new additions to its Revo Series of LED moonflowers, unveil "a ground-breaking moving head with revolutionary Philips 5R lamp technology", and take the wraps off one of its most unusual special effects ever.

One of the stars of ADJ's PLS line-up, the Jellyfish is an LED effect with 84 RGBW lamps, housed in a clear plastic case. Like its namesake fish, the Jellyfish radiates colour through its transparent 'outer shell' which makes it two effects in one: a bright red, green, blue and white beam projector; and a glowing case that changes colours. The Jellyfish's colour-changing case actually becomes part of the light show.

Another new ADJ light addresses the demand for smaller, more energy-efficient

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India - SIA Acoustics, an acoustical design and facility planning firm with offices in New York City and Hollywood, CA, is opening an office in Mumbai, India. Operating locally and offering the advantage of shared resources from three offices, SIA Acoustics now also serves Indian customers in all aspects of acoustics, technical systems, and facility design.

"Supporting the growing number of sound critical facilities being built here in India truly requires meeting with people face to face" says SIA Acoustics partner Steve Sockey. "And this means it is essential to have local staff who understand both acoustics and the specific way that work is done in India."

SIA Acoustics is widely credited with a wide range of successful projects including production and broadcast studios, recording and multimedia facilities, musical performance venues, theatres, clubs an

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Italy - As part of the Roman Carnival night, Coemar provided light systems for the exclusive ballet at the Spanish Embassy, At the Court of Giulio II. The event was sponsored by the Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno and the Spanish Ambassador Francisco Vasquez.

The event's lighting designer chose the ACL Infinity moving head projectors for their superior and distance focused brightness and CycLite LEDs.

Coemar's Infinity ACL S is a innovative and energy saving projector, thanks to the use of a bulb with low power consumption of 300W and a new conception lens, which maximizes and focuses the effects of the light.

CycLite LEDs offer a high energy efficiency thanks to the innovative lED technology used by Coemar. CycLite Led is the first cyclorama led which produces a symmetrical or asymmetrical beam of light, adjustable from + 51° to 45° and with a proportional zoo

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Spain - The Honey Interpretation Centre opened in the Catalan town of Arnes in July 2008. Making use of the latest audiovisual technology, the museum explains the whole process of producing honey, the life of bees and everything else related with apiculture. Belonging to the town council of Arnes, the interpretation centre involved an investment of €310,000.

Urano Films, a multimedia and audiovisual production company from Catalonia, was commissioned to create the visual content for the centre and the overall integration of the audiovisual equipment, while Charmex, a partner of Christie, supplied the equipment itself. The centrepiece of the museum is a small film theatre screening a short educational 3D film on the life of bees. The theatre is equipped with a passive 3D system with two Christie LX450 projectors.

As well as the film theatre, the museum also has another two aud

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UK - Marl is to distribute the Lumotech Lumoluce range of LED architectural lighting products for commercial and domestic applications.

The Lumoluce range is fully assembled and manufactured at Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands utilising high quality LED light sources and LEDs. Features of the range include sub-binning, where each colour supplied is tested and hand-sorted into a further nine sub-bins to provide an exact colour match across each individual LED supplied to a customer.

Lumoluce also designs and manufactures its own drivers to maximise the performance and efficiency of its LED lights. As a result, it achieves power factors of better than 0.9 and very low harmonics. Lumoluce LEDs are widely used in major airports, supermarkets for food illumination as well as restaurants and offices throughout Europe. Its focus on delivering premium performance and quality at compet

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UK - AC-ET's Video division has been appointed as the exclusive UK and Northern Ireland distributor for the InnovaLED TP825 panel, an IP rated display solution.

The first in a range of models being developed by InnovaLED ApS, a new European company formed by seasoned industry professionals, the LED module is a 25mm pitch panel that offers a bright (3200 nits) output and a seamless image at approximately 20m.

Featuring a rugged design and auto-locking system that makes it very fast and easy to rig, the InnovaLED screen is one of the first truly 'one man configurable' video systems, says the company.

InnovaLED Aps managing director, Jan Thoegersen, comments, "InnovaLED ApS is very proud to become a part of the A.C. Video product portfolio. It is our belief that A.C.'s position in the market, expertise and customer relationships makes them the obvious choice as a distribut

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Mexico - Known primarily for producing history documentaries, in recent years the Mexican film industry has risen to international status receiving critical praise at major movie festivals for acting, cinematography, and direction. To prepare its facilities for 21st century digital cinema production, LaboFilms in Mexico City has installed a mixing stage at LaboDigital. Based on CQ-1 loudspeakers, the new Meyer Sound system provides the linear sound quality that translates smoothly across post-production and theatre reproduction.

With its Meyer Sound system, the 30-year-old LaboFilms has provided a prime THX-certified mixing stage for filmmakers in Mexico. To date, 10 full-length films have been made at LaboDigital including Quinzaine des Realisateurs, a Cannes Festival film; the Spanish, English, and Portuguese versions of El Delfin, as well as the Spanish adaptati

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New Zealand - In one of the world's most popular music festivals, College Hill Productions supplied the live sound services for the Auckland date of Big Day Out on 15 January. The event included performances by Lily Allen, The Mars Volta, Jet, Kasabian, The Decemberists and Fear Factory.

Big Day Out featured two main stages next to each other, enabling one act to perform on one stage immediately following the conclusion of another performance on the adjacent stage. At the front-of-house position at each stage, College Hill's FOH system engineers Kevin Bennett and Leon Dalton used a 96-channel Soundcraft Vi6 console with fibre multicores. Both systems utilized the onboard Lexicon effects packages built into the Vi6. In addition, the electronic group Groove Armada used a third Vi6 in the dance tent.

The day before the show, each band's engineers visited the concert

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The Netherlands - February's Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show saw yet more success for the DiGiCo SD8 mixing console, with three more added to the inventories of Dutch rental companies.

Purple Group, one of the country's leading rental facilities, already owned three SD8s and increased that number to no five at ISE. The company is a long-term DiGiCo user and, when asked to supply equipment for tours by top Dutch acts VanVelzen and Kane, the decision to invest in further SD8s was a straightforward one.

"For VanVelzen we use a double SD8 setup, a standard console and SD8-24," says Purple Group's Robert de Loey. "In venues with small Front of House position, the 24 channel console is used at FOH with the standard console on monitors, while in venues with small stages the consoles are swapped over."

Taking full advantage of the SD8's recording facil

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