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14 March 2016

LCM, an interface processor that drives ultra-high resolution images in vivid colour, made its first public appearance at InfoComm. With a combined scaler and processor, the LCM's single control platform simplifies operations, increases application flexibility, and minimizes points of failure, saving customers on long term maintenance costs. The LCM also includes auto addressing, which reduces set up and take down time and lowers the risk of installation errors.

Lighthouse also launched the new LIP-HDI for fixed installations. The LIP-HDI interface processor is designed for any fixed installation, featuring a new communications chipset that provides much b

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Lighting designer Al Gurdon carefully selected all of the lighting equipment to meet the challenges of the production and the long wish list of the Russian organising committee. This translated to over 750 moving lights, 250 LED lights and 100 conventionals, extending to every corner of the arena, including the rig, balconies, floor and scaffold.

The roof load was a massive 140 tons, which was over the load capacity for the venue. The solution was to allocate 40 tons to a supporting scaffold approximately 100m wide by 22mhigh, and providing additional functions beyond just support.

135 Alpha Spot HPE 1200 fixtures were placed inside the colossal grid, arranged in vertical columns of five fixtures from top

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Lighting director was UK- based Paul Birks with Dubai-based Nigel Holborough as lighting and visual media designer. Technical production was organised by Hong Kong's Xtreme Xecution and the extravaganza was produced by Wizcraft International Entertainment.

The IIFA Award Show is the biggest South Asian media event and is considered among one of the most-watched global annual events. It is due to be aired to a TV audience of 800m at the beginning of July. The show was run on five grandMA's controlling over 200 moving and 600 conventional lights along with six MA media PCs putting content into LED screens integrated into the Venetian themed purpose built set.

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Designed to provide innovative control of the latest LED, Moving Head and Video System technology, the ORB combines extreme flexibility, incredible capability and contemporary styling to create a sophisticated control solution for those operating in theatrical environments.

Training days will be held at the Pleasance in Islington, London as well as at the Zero 88 facility in Cwmbran. These training events are open to anyone who has recently purchased or is considering purchasing an ORB or anyone looking to extend their range of console knowledge. Each day runs from 10am until 4pm with lunch included. Places must be booked in advance. Training days at t

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The series, presented by comedy duo Ant & Dec, was shot over a week in Studios A and B of Fountain Studios, Wembley, London - the largest TV stage in the UK. The highly versatile LED-based set was designed by Dominic Tolfts and featured several different types of LED, all of which were sourced and supplied to the production by Simon Deary of LED Poison who specialises in digital lighting.

Deary has also procured all the LED for the last 2 BGT series and comments; "I know I can always get a fantastic service and a great package from HSL, and that's why I keep going back to them. In this case, we could also acqui

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Gawler's original basic over-stage rig concept which started the tour in October 2008 utilised 30 BB4s, with six units rigged horizontally onto each of five steeply raked upstage/downstage 'finger' trusses. These were attached via custom brackets fabricated by lighting suppliers PRG, and are utilised to produce a general stage wash.

When the summer 2009 stadium shows appeared on the itinerary an extra finger truss was added over the stage, making six in total, along with another six integral BB4s now rigged in vertical pairs,

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Barbara Nelson, CEO of Element Labs says, "We believed in the Cobra from the start, and this award is symbolic of the industry endorsement this revolutionary LED platform has received since its introduction. Cobra has proven itself to be an absolutely fantastic LED product for the rental and staging industry. With the successful introduction of Cobra, Element Labs consolidates its strategy to lead through product innovation, as it establishes us with knockout competitive advantages on every front - now and in the future."

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Freeman Audio Visual Solutions received the award for Best Overall Staging for a Corporate or Association Event for their staging of the Miller Brewing Annual Distributors Conference. Four Barco SLM R12+ projectors, one Barco FLM HD18 high definition projector and Barco's Encore Presentation System contributed to the event.

The projectors used on the white pleated fabric were blended and shaped to create a solid specific background look for each presentation. Each pai

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14 March 2016

Located at Martin's headquarter office in Aarhus, Denmark, the new customer care coordinators' primary responsibility will be all manner of customer service, as well as to implement Martin's new e-commerce platform, Martin E-Shop.

Adela Güven comes to Martin from a similar position at TC Electronic; Marianne Kirk joins the company from a position as key account manager at Lind Furniture International; and Pernille Rosenkilde joins Martin from a similar position at Kvik Køkkener (Kitchens).

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While conventional fluorescent lamps typically have a rated life in the range 8,000 to 24,000 hours, the LED48T8 lamps boast an operating life of 50,000 hours and more - 5.7 years of continuous light. Since the LED lights produce so little wasted heat, the temperature inside

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14 March 2016

At the launch, Mark Ager said a few words to thank all the contributors and those who had helped to make the book a reality: "This book has been part of a focus to help educate the market about automation and its uses and possibilities. Although John [Hastie] and I are credited as the authors, this book has been a collaborative effort by a whole host of people, both inside and outside Stage Technologies. So much of the knowledge contained within is the distilled wisdom of colleagues

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"I'd seen the console more and more on shows and festivals," Berry comments, "And thought this would be an ideal opportunity to learn it, specially knowing that we'd be dealing with a wide selection of different moving lights every night, so I knew that the fixture cloning and exchange facilities would be a great asset."

The lightshow is a moody, heavily back-positioned mix of colour, beams and movement, with plenty of subtleties that require meticulous programming and execution, a task that

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14 March 2016

According to GLP director, Kasper Gissel, the appointment of AED is in recognition of its expertise in the lighting industry, together with a strong association with AED Rent - one of the largest rental support houses in Europe, with rental/production clients right across the globe. "AED Sales has the infrastructure and logistics to ensure that all sales of GLP products are backed by a high level of service and support in order to provide added customer value."

Hans Vanderheijden, managing director, AED Sales, states: "We are very proud to

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14 March 2016

Available in the UK from Marl,the new Citizen CL-L233 delivers an intense 1335 lumens of white light from 13W at a colour temperature of 5000K. CL-L233 delivers this light over a narrow 120 degree beam, eliminating the well known light pollution caused by most street lighting technologies which emit light over 360 degrees.

According to Marl, this powerful new solution extends the potential of LED technology in applications such as spotlights for stadiums and concerts, security and perimeter lighting, and street and industrial site illumination. Marl's LED specialists will be developing LED assemblies based on the Citizen LED to address these market opportunities, providing a solution that delivers

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14 March 2016

Users can browse the full Goboland catalogue of over 1200 designs from Goboland's Black Steel Collection, Premiere and Designer Collections. Each design can also be viewed as an enlarged single image for greater clarity.

Internet access is not necessary to view the collections and the application negates the need for cumbersome brochures and catalogues.

"The Apple iPhone is an incredibly popular and useful tool with which so many in our industry are already familiar," explains Goboland managing director, Ivo Dielen. "We feel it is the ideal format in which to present our gobo designs to

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TDE selected VisualDMX software lighting control from Visual Productions to control the sauna's lighting as they required a system that could be programmed with numerous lighting effects yet provide a simple and safe means of customer control. They installed LED lighting within the venue including 2500 pieces of their LED strips from about 33cm each.

These, coupled with other mood lighting - including a fibre optic system for ceiling stars - were divided out acros

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On August 8th in a field in Horam, East Sussex, Gary Moore will top the bill, supported by Mo Foster and local legend Ray Russell. There will also be a special guest appearance by Geno Washington of The Ram Jam Band fame and Chris Difford from Squeeze.

Vibes from the Vines '09 follows the first hugely successful festival in 2006, when organizers raised an impressive £32,000 for Cancer Research UK. This year, with a much bigger show and substantially improved production facilities organizers will be loo

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14 March 2016

Steven Cohen Productions, in conjunction with Epic Production Technologies and Syncrolite supplied a large lighting package that includes Martin MAC III Profiles, MAC 700 Profiles and MAC 2000 Washes with lighting control from a Martin Maxxyz and Maxxyz Modules. Video control for low resolution LED screens is from a Martin Maxedia Broadcast.

Production designer for the show is Steve Cohen. Lighting design is by Cohen and Mark Foffano. Foffano programmed for both artists and served as the ove

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14 March 2016

Part of Production Resource Group (PRG) since October 2008, Essential Lighting works within the corporate, exhibition, live event and hospitality sectors, providing lighting and Scenic LED equipment, digital media and visualisation services. The company has three divisions serving the production industry and lighting designers as well as other lighting companies through a dedicated dry hire team.

As part of the restructuring of PRG UK's management earlier this year, Martin Locket moved from his role as managing director of Essential to become group CEO. He commented: "Martin Lubach has bee

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"The popularity of the Esplanade Concert Hall and the broad diversity of events presented here, make providing the venue's performance lighting an exciting challenge," says Esplanade's head of lighting, Milton Arnold. "We find that the demands on our capabilities are ever-increasing, so we turned to lighting manufacturer Robert Juliat, and local supplier Total Solution, to provide the followspots and front of house profiles which would ensure our premier venue keeps pace."

He says the RJ 711SX2 zoom profiles were chosen for the Concert Hall's front-of-house lighting

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Production Resource Group UK's CEO, Martin Locket, added: "David brings considerable skills and experience to lead the team at PRG Distribution. He will be developing and expanding the opportunities for the business as we build on the success of the brands we sell".

PRG Distribution is the European master distributor for Vari*Lite automated lighting fixtures, and also distributes products from Lycian, Pathway and Seachanger, amongst other brands.

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The stage and show were created by long-time U2 designers Willie Williams and Mark Fisher. With the help of Chuck Hoberman and Barco their vision of a 360° moving video screen was turned into reality. Barco provided more than half a million transformable LED pixels (FLX), which are integrated into a transformable structure designed

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Johnson operated the show for the first part of the tour while Marr completed his work commitments with Die Toten Hosen, after which he took over running the Maximo tour. All lighting equipment including the grandMA2 light was supplied by Blackburn-based Lite Alternative, having just invested in two of the new grandMA2 consoles.

Johnson says, "As soon as I touched the grandMA2 I liked the feel of it. It's neat and compact and the faders are just fantastic. They far surpass any previous motorised faders and in fact, you don't even notice that th

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14 March 2016

As the number of Art-Net nodes being used in control systems increases, so too does the requirement to power each node. Art-Switch PoE4 uses a more efficient method than powering each node with an individual power supply, by feeding the voltage needed down the same cable as the data from the Ethernet Switch. This method is known as Power-over-Ethernet (PoE). Since Art-Net installations already require an Ethernet switch to carry data, why not include the power in the same unit?

Art-Switch PoE4 provides five 10/100BaseT Ethernet ports, four of which support Power-over-Ethernet