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Enliten's Exhibition PAR has been a big seller to rental houses serving the auto show market in the US: now its incorporation of Osram's new 150W HSD 7000°K daylight lamp, as demonstrated at LDI, makes this a lighter, whiter proposition than ever before. White Light showed its VSFX range of moving effects projectors

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City Theatrical's latest lighting tools included a line of versatile accessories for use with Color Kinetics' LED-based lighting systems. The first accessories in the line are for use with Color Kinetics' popular ColorBlast, ColorBurst and ColorBlaze units: standard accessories include accessory holders, top hats, half top hats, spread lenses, egg crate louvres, and barndoors. The company showed moving prototype versions of the Color Kinetics ColorBlaze 48 (pictured), while also on display was a moving version of ETC's MultiPAR-3, with Wybron CXI colour mixing scroller; both were motorized in the tilt axis with 180° of movement, 16-bit control, and encoder feedback.

Also from this prolific award-winner was Lightwright 4, which picked up the LDI Product of the Year award in the Software category. V4 is the latest version of Lightwright with a host of new features - among them a 62 DMX

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The 'big' lighting specialist from Texas, Syncrolite showed a prototype of its new fixture, the MX1000 - but the unit is so new that we'll have to wait to tell you about it.

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Selecon introduced the followspot version of the Pacific luminaire (pictured right, with Philip Sargent), bearing the familiar characteristics of the Pacific's innovative heat management technology. The Pacific followspot offers a wide choice of lamp sources to suit most throw requirements, is silent due to its fanless design, and is built with easy maintenance and ergonomics in mind.

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Strand's new SLD sinewave dimmers received their world debut at LDI. The SLD dimmers feature true sinewave output, making for quiet lamps and accurate control. The SST (Solid State Transformer) dimmer modules can dim a wide range of loads including incandescent, inductive and capacitive devices from a fraction of a watt to full capacity, and produce less than 1% harmonic distortion. The units carry built-in short circuit and overload protection, and SLD status reporting and advanced waveform compensation is standard. The units are available with Single Pole, Double Pole and RCD circuit breakers.

Strand also introduced a new USB Key drive with its Designer Remote software built in. Plug the new drive into the USB port on a PC or Mac notebook with a wired or wireless Ethernet connection and you'll be able to access displays and controls on any Strand 300 or 500 series console.

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Robert Bell was showing the new Marquee ILC (Intelligent Lighting Control) console, which received a good reception on the ET stand. The Marquee line - consisting of the 24/48, 48/96 and now the ILC - brings a theatre-friendly hardware interface to the power of the Horizon lighting control software which has previously found favour in architectural and worship markets. ILC features four attribute encoders, a dedicated level wheel and 14 pageable hardware playbacks. Many visitors made positive comments on the 'Century Array' - a panel of 100 buttons for fixture selection that serves as group and palette select: usually a feature of more expensive consoles, this is an inexpensive add-on option to ILC.

ILC also features what ET call a 'Flat' fixture model, presenting all moving lights (of whatever make or model) to the user in the same way, e.g. strobe values are shown in hertz and gobo r

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ESTA's dedicated Interconnectivity Pavilion was designed to offer an engineering model of how Remote Device Management (RDM) actually works, and an illustration of the benefits it will offer the lighting industry. And the benefits are many: it provides an automatic equipment check, telling the controller exactly what fixtures are connected; it does away with the need for DIP switch/fixture display settings - parameters can now be set directly from the console or RDM controller (good news for manufacturers and for productions with DMX devices in inaccessible places); also, the controller is alerted with status and error messages, including faults and lamp hours. The Pavilion also ably demonstrated how the RDM data packets run through the DMX data stream with no ill-effects on performance, even on non-RDM compatible fixtures.

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Robe Show Lighting displayed their full range of luminaires, including the latest ColorSpot 1200 AT (for Advanced Technology) and the 1200E AT version - which includes an electronic ballast for flicker-free operation, improved light output and lamp life, and power-saving mode.

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Belgium - At this year's ceremony of the International Laser Display Association (ILDA) awards at the Brussels Plaza Theater, German laser specialist Lobo not only won more awards than any other company (for the sixth time running), but with a total of 12 of the 'Laser Oscars' also won more awards than ever before.

With its 12 awards including four first prizes, almost one third of all the ILDA Awards for outstanding creative achievements went to Lobo during the glamorous ceremony. This brings the Aalen-based company's total in just 10 years to 69 ILDA awards, including more than 20 first prizes.

Four of Lobo's 3D beam shows were awarded prizes, including two first prizes. All winning beam shows originate from the Lobo's Software Contract - a show subscription service that offers subscribers one beam show per month.

Key to many of Lobo's achievements is its laser and multi

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Martin Professional picked up the Entertainment Lighting Product of the Year Award for its Maxxyz lighting console and the Staging & Effects Product of the Year for Jem's ZR 24/7 Hazer. On top of this, to satisfy customer demand, they introduced a new moving head laser fixture - the MAC 250 Laser. This high intensity 532nm, 250mW (green) YAG laser offers 540° pan and 257° tilt, plug and play operation and a patented intelligent safety feature. It comes with a range of effects, including radial flowering effects and an upgradeable library of graphics. Other features include full range electronic dimming and a pulsating variable-speed strobe, while a high-speed, rotating, three-facet prism effect extends the effects capability. Martin also showed its Jem and Magnum brand smoke machines, seen in September at PLASA, while the audio branch of the family, Mach, showed the new, low profile SP

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UK - "At first there wasn't going to be any grid, we were asked to rig a system off the king poles." Bryan Grant of audio contractor Britannia Row Productions describing the preliminaries of what is always a big event in the music industry calendar, the MTV Europe Awards (EMA's for short). Unrealistic as that might seem - this is after all Europe's premier music awards show (isn't it?), the initial belief that you could stage a world class event off some tent poles proved a partial blessing.

"The design was very different this year," continued Grant, "they brought in Mark Fisher [creative director was Ray Winkler] and he produced a quite minimalist set design, a big departure from previous years. Plus the show was characterized by multiple performance points, with many presentation areas as well."

The concept predicated a highly distributed syste

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Pulsar's increasingly evident Chroma range of LED lighting fixtures was on show, including the new 30% brighter ChromaBank batten and the ChromaPanel300 - the half-size version of the ChromaPanel600 (600mm square) colour changing LED tile.

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Italian cable manufacturer Link showed two new cabling options for the Yamaha PM1D digital mixing console, as part of its Eurocable range. Bundling SCSI, video sync and audio cables into one casing and mating it with its proprietary LK connectors, Link's new solution offers offers reduced set-up and get-out times with greater cable connection integrity. The elegantly-named CVS LK YMHSCSI is suitable for connecting the CS1D and DSP1D modules, as well for cascading DSP1D, DSP1D EX and AO8/DIO8 connections. The CVS LK YMHPM1D is composed of a single cable to connect the PM1D control surface to the brain unit. In the US, these products are available from distributor Atlantic Audio, headed up by Craig Beyrooti.

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Among the new architectural lighting fixtures on show from Altman was the SpectraPar (right) - an LED-based colour changing luminaire for indoor or outdoor use. SpectraPar utilizes 36 1W LEDs inside a cast aluminium housing, and offers three interchangeable lenses.

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UK - For the third consecutive year Brighton-based, lighting and power management consultancy, Studio 23, has lit London's premier outdoor ice rink in the beautiful setting of the courtyard at Somerset House. In association with Bryan Leitch of Siyan Lighting - LD for Coldplay and Feeder - Nick Read of Studio 23 - LD for the ice rink - came up with a new concept for the design. Read told L&SI: "This year, we knew we had a lot of corporate and publicity events, including many publicity photo shoots for bands such as The Sugababes and Busted. We therefore wanted to provide a design that was both attractive and flexible; we wanted colour changing facilities and movement of image on the ice."

Read needed a colour changing, water-proof unit that was reliable, punchy and relatively small, as they would have to hang from a 'flambeau' post, in all weathers, for three months, he had s

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ETC was making an impression at LDI on two fronts. Product first, and the US launch of the Source Four Revolution, the moving head version of the industry standard profile luminaire, with improved optical system. Bill Gallinghouse, VP of business development and marketing, told me that the response to the Revolution has been excellent since its launch at PLASA, and the interest shown at LDI had certainly continued the trend.Away from product, ETC was also noted for its LDI Student Sponsorship programme, which again saw six lucky lighting design students from across the US join the company on an all-expenses-paid trip to LDI to 'schmooze' with leading industry practitioners. ETC's Fred Foster semi-joked that this initiative was introduced in an attempt to do something better with ETC's money than simply throwing big parties - and it looks like it'll pay off (although the parties were good

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As its Pixelline LED fixtures become an increasingly common sight on tour and on TV, James Thomas Engineering used LDI to launch PixelDrive for Mac, the Macintosh-based version of its new control concept for driving DMX fixtures, which has been developed alongside IRAD, the developers of the RADlite digital media server. The Mac version is expected to find particular favour in the US market and we can expect further additions to the range next year with the development of a 'value-engineered', streamlined version of RADlite on both platforms.

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Dimming specialist IES showed its iSine dimming technology, which it claims is the world's most advanced sinewave dimming technology. With a number of high profile installations across Europe and a Best Product Award from this year's Showtech exhibition in Berlin, the Dutch manufacturer has some weight to back up its claim. With iSine, IES dispenses with what it calls the 'mature' phase control techniques of conventional dimming systems, which inherently create unwanted noise and harmonic distortion because of the way they 'chop' into the wave form. iSine technology's far greener solution employs an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT). For more on IGBT, sinewave dimming and dimming technology in general, see this month's Technical Focus feature on installed dimming systems.

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Color Kinetics Inc (CKI) had one of the most eye-catching stands, thanks largely to its striking new LED effect, the iColor Tile FX (see picture). Each 2ft by 2ft (600mm by 600mm) panel incorporates 144 individually addressable RGB LED nodes (432 LEDs in total), powered by CKI's Chromasic system, enabling surprisingly high-resolution control of the light output - allowing morphing colour waves, animated objects, logos, emblems and customized patterns.

CKI's Light System Manager is an integrated software/hardware solution engineered to enable large-scale and intricately designed installations that exceed the limitations of today's lighting programming and network protocols. LSM facilitates the management, authoring and control of show effects that span multiple DMX universes and scale to tens of thousands of individually controlled LED-based nodes.

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UK - The Mania DC2 is the third fixture and the second decorative effect in Martin Professional's Mania series. The fixture projects images of flickering flames, and has a variable focus that allows the user to blur the edges of the projected image, plus a variable speed of the flame effect to change the projections from a flicker to an inferno.

According to Martin Pro, its R&D team has once again produced a product which offers high class features and performance at an affordable price. It comes in a durable yet stylish symmetrical housing complete with hanging bracket that also serves as a carrying handle. Attractive to the eye, trendy graphics complete the cool look.

Mania will appeal to the independent music lovers who crave innovation and uniqueness at a good price - DJs, musicians, partygoers, concertgoers, clubbers - and is designed for wherever people want to have fu

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USA - Production Resource Group (PRG) has announced a major restructuring which, it says, will improve both the company's service quality and its ability to manage its assets. The company is consolidating equipment in three major offices that will effectively become the depots in a 'hub and spoke' inventory management system. Inventory for larger events will be maintained, prepared, and shipped from the company's depots. PRG's smaller offices will continue to maintain sufficient inventory to support most local events, but will receive temporary shipments of equipment from the depots as needed to support larger events.

PRG's New Jersey, Orlando and Las Vegas offices will serve as the company's regional equipment depots. Other PRG offices will continue to maintain local inventories but will draw on the extensive additional stock in the depots when needed. Portions of the inventory

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UK / Australia - Coemar DeSisti Australia has announced the availability of the latest addition to studio suspension equipment from Doughty Engineering is a range of two- and three-spring pantographs, designed to be lightweight and compact, with strength, safety and ease of use being the major design criteria.

Eight models are available, with travel ranges from 2.2m to 5m. Features include a comprehensive range of end fittings, an easy to use design, compact closed height, heavy gauge high tensile side arms, and heavy duty cable clips to take one power plus signal lead.

Used to suspend the Pantographs from fixed or rolling pipe grids and barrel hoists, the new range of lightweight cast aluminum barrel trolleys from Doughty is also available. These are designed to roll along 48 to 51mm diameter tubes and are supplied as standard with a socket to accept TV spigots (28-29mm). Bra

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UK - Top London club fabric has made a major lighting investment with Coemar UK and its sister company, Lighting Effects Distribution. Part of a systematic upgrade at the venue, iSpot 575 moving heads, iCyc 250s, ProSpot 250s and a variety of LED-based products will add to the new kinetic energy in Rooms 1, 2 and 3 as a result of a new design from Dave Parry's technology team at the club.

The new equipment is predominantly for Room 2. "The room is essentially a black box, but I wanted to put a bit more focus onto the lasers," explained Parry. "The room contains a massive block of colour and we have used Coemar iCyc 250s as an architectural backdrop." At the same time the club has used six Thomas Pixel Par 87s from Lighting Effects Distribution to highlight the structural arches and create an extra dimension, along with a pair of Coemar iSpot 575s and CF as a

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UK - For the third year, DPL supplied Christmas lighting Portsmouth Historic Dockyard's annual 'A Festival of Christmas' international fair. The centrepiece of the show was HMS Victory, Admiral Nelson's famous battleship, aboard which he died during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The Victory - still UK's oldest commissioned warship, and now a major heritage attraction - had its lighting boosted for the event with five Studio Due City Colour architectural colour changing luminaries, which were located on the dockside.

DPL's Darren Parker also added a Space Flower on the rear deck of the ship, positioned carefully so the twisting split beams shot through the vessel's masts and elaborate rigging systems. A large Christmas tree sat on the dockside in front of the Victory, decorated with multi-coloured festoons, sourced and supplied by DPL specially for this project.

(Lee Baldock

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