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These are an integral digital component of Richard Larkum's lighting and visual design, and take the look and feel of the Kaiser's almost non-stop touring schedule over the last two years to a new and different dimension.

Larkum states: "The band and I were determined that any 'video' elements interfaced seamlessly with the lighting". He also wanted a digital lightsource with its own visual integrity, and definitely not a massive LED surface that dominated the performance space.

XL UK's project manager Jo Beirne says, "It's always fun and exciting working with Richard - his ideas are innovative and varied and he never loses sight of the basic elements of lighting a band onstage well, and for the enjoyment

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Production:av's live event video division is partnering with video directors and production managers to provide video solutions and move the company forward in this sector. The company's inventory of Barco projection and image processing has provided a reliable platform for servicing customers. "Our Barco HD8 and CLM R10 projectors have been instrumental in offering some complex, and bright projections at a competitive price point. These uni

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The show's intense and fluid visuality results from some serious creative chemistry between live video director Blue Leach who is cutting the IMAG mix, lighting designer Davy Sherwin and live visuals director Robin Haddow.

It is Leach's second Snow Patrol tour. "Davy and Robin are really into a fully integrated workflow that unites all departments, and I am very much of that same mindset, so it's a complete joy to be on this," he states.

XL supplied 8 columns of Barco O-Lite LED screen each measuring 13.5 ft high. Additional dynamics

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Staged in the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin near Paris, this event will evaluate the maturity of the creation and visualization solutions dedicated to the 3D images and their application programmes. This year, a space for the 3D production promotion will be added to the Dimension 3 professional exhibition area. Added to those areas dedicated to professionals, Dimension 3 Immersion, an area for the visual experimentations, will be open to a broader audience.

60 international experts will be gathered

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Stigger has extensive experience of the industry on a worldwide basis, having been with SPS for almost two decades prior to his move to PSP, where he worked on some of the company's most high profile events and client accounts.

"Business continues to be good for us and our London office is expanding," comments PSP director Ian Willcox. "And with the recent addition of Animotion Live and 3D-holocube enhancing our offering of creative products, more opportunities are continually presenting themselves.

"The addition of Chris to our team gives us the capability to facilitate this increase in business, ensuring that our clients receive the quality of service

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Lee House, business development manager for the A.C. Video division, commented, "A.C. Entertainment Technologies is committed to providing training and after-sales support to its UK-wide Green Hippo customer base, and we hope that holding a HippoSchool event in Scotland demonstrates our total commitment to the Hippotizer and our customers across the entire country."

The HippoSchool traini

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Lighting designer Al Gurdon, who is well known for large scale productions such as the MTV Awards and the Brit Awards, designed in the performance of popular German act Silbermond in collaboration with tarm Showlaser to mark the presentation of the band's new song Irgendwas bleibt.

A total of four high-power green and four full-colour lasers were used for the production at the O2-World.

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DB's expertise will be showcased at events such as Latin America Aero and Defence (LAAD) 2009 in Rio de Janeiro in April, ITEC in Brussels in May, which is Europe's leading event showcasing products and services for purposes of defence, training, education and simulation, as well as the Paris Airshow in June.

Oliver Richardson, DB's sales director, commented: "We are approaching a very busy period operationally but our customers know full well that we always deliver. This is demonstrated by the fact that we are attending so many events as an official supplier.

"We've

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This eye-catching addition to the store's vibrant and distinctive design was selected for its ability to work in portrait, reproduce accurate colours naturally and for its new anti glare surface, which allows the screen to perform in high ambient light environments essential for this store.

The 103" plasma's high contrast, brightness and true colour reproduction means it replicates the "perfect skin tones and vibrant colours featured in Benetton's famous adverts relayed on the screen", say the company.

The screen was installed by 103" experts PSCo, using a bespoke stand to secure the screen onto the wall. PSCo's managing director Stuart Holmes explains: "The opportunities

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The base includes a Casio XJ-S52 DLP projector, and a MacMini where content is stored. The image is projected onto the screen via a mirror. The design means that the HoloTerminal is simple to set up on location: the HoloTerminal is delivered completely mounted in a flightcase which can then be rolled out, unpacked, set up and connected on location in less than one minute, the company says.

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Visitors will be able to tryout this platform-independent piece of software lighting control on either a Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. Cuelux is a DMX512 lighting controller for intelligent lights, LED, dimmers, lasers and various other effects; it is shipped with a USB-to-DMX adapter cable.

Key to the design of Cuelux is its graphical user-interface. It is specially designed to reduce the amount of time required to learn how to operate the software.

Alongside this new product Visual Productions continues to develop itsother products and will also be displaying the Duple: a USB to DMX-512 dual output and input hardware interface. The Duple enables both VisualDMX and Canvix lighting control softwares to send and receive DMX.

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As a vibrant centre for the international business community, offering fast access to T5, the hotel's 14 conference and meeting rooms warranted having superior media and communication facilities; all rooms have been specified and equipped with the latest technology, including Christie HD-compatible digital projection proAV, which has also equipped a 117-seat tiered theatre.

Three executive boardrooms - the 16-seat Imperial Boardroom, 22-seat Opera Boardroom and 16-capacity Zen Boardroom - are versatile and digitally equipped. The most advanced room, The Imperial, incorporates a Christie DS+305 SXGA+ 3300 lumen DLP digital projector, as part of an infrastructure that includes videoconferencing, while the remaining two rooms

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At the heart of the programme is the product launch of Stage Electrics' new modular LED screens, designed using the latest advances in electronic engineering and featuring a 145° viewing angle. An AV specialist will be on hand to explain the features and benefits of these screens and provide a full demonstration of the product's capabilities.

The event will also feature a temporary ice rink and presentation from leading ice rink specialists Ice World, a real-time demonstration of SPLNet - a new noise level monitoring unit, and a presentatio

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Brought in by Ian Smith of Just Lite, who were responsible for the lighting and trussing, the CAVS team, led by Rowan McDonagh, were tasked with meeting an exacting brief by the opera singer's production.

"They were very specific in what they wanted - from the PA down to the camera lenses for the live show relay," stated McDonagh. "While that's not unusual at this level, it proved quite a challenge as it had been rehearsed just once in Italy and no-one was quite sure how it would translate to the O2, which is still a new venue."

The two-day show involved a pair of Christie Roadster S+20Ks positioned atop two Christie S+

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Based near Stuttgart, Germany, with offices in throughout Europe, COMM-TEC boasts an impressive portfolio of brands. They cover all AV market sectors from audio, lighting, video, presentation technology, signal management and show and event control right down to racks and bespoke equipment housing. COMM-TEC is the exclusive distribution channel for all Stardraw products throughout continental Europe, including Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Turkey.

According to Stardraw.com marketing director Rob Robinson, COMM-TEC's success with Stardraw is due in large part

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The Language Resource Area (LRA) offers support to the learning, teaching and research that takes place within the LCS department. The LRA works closely with the Language Support Unit (LSU) in assisting language students and the facility includes two computer labs specifically equipped for language teaching and learning, as well as a digital language lab.

The main hub of the LRA is its state-of-the-art Self-Access Centre, which contains many resource

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Carmela Iandoli joins as programming editor, a newly-created role designed to expand Blink's pre-show entertainment offering to appeal to artists from all music genres. Blink is known for its work with pop acts, but recent projects with indie bands such as Keane and Snow Patrol signals its intention to broaden its client base.

For Snow Patrol's current tour Blink created bespoke pre-show entertainment tailored specifically to the tastes of the band and its fans, including music selected by the band set to time-lapse photography of the stage being set up. The resulting imagery builds anticipation within the crowd prior to the band's arrival on stage. The package includes targeted advertising which helps offset the signif

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Exhibiting with specialist Düsseldorf-based reseller 3D Powerstore, projectiondesign will show a range of products including the F32 1080 INFITEC stereo 3D setup; an F32 wuxga supplied by 3D Powerstore; and the F10 AS3D active stereo 3D projector which will be shown in conjunction with Autodesk design engineering software.

Additionally, Anders L°kke, international marketing and communications manager at projectiondesign, will present a seminar on 3D techn

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Chosen by Mattel's brand and design agency Oakwood-dc to install and manage the content delivery of the campaign (which runs until the end of March 2009), Urban Digital in turn, contacted Paradigm to deliver the media hardware, based around four 84in dnp New Wide Angle screens, for which they are exclusive UK distributors.

Divided by narrow mullions the screens have been hard-edge blended and colour-matched, receiving picture perfect projection from four Panasonic 5700 projectors, cradled horizontally on four Paradigm Easy Erect rigs, to fold the beams off four twin mirror rigs angled at 45°.

While Paradigm were responsib

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This was project managed for XL by Des Fallon, with live direction by Jon Shrimpton. Fallon comments, "From my first meeting with management and production, Elbow have been a pleasure to work with. The show was immense, a very special evening."

Shrimpton worked in close collaboration with Mark Thomas from Soup Collective who designed and produced all the playback visuals, and Hugh Davies Webb, who was brought in by XL to run the Catalyst media server that was at the hub of the live video show control.

"The visual cues were all very precise and we had no physical rehearsals, so the this was a major challenge" recalls Shrimpton. The three of them had several meetings to establish, ru

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The VP-728 is HDTV and HDCP compatible offering 720p, 1080i and 1080p HDTV output resolutions as well as numerous other user-selectable pre-defined output resolutions and one user definable output resolution setting.

The VP-728 presentation scaler/switcher employs Kramer's FTB (Fade-Thru-Black) switching for glitch-free switching. The VP-728 can switch between any of nine inputs that include three-wire universal video inputs on RCA connectors (each can be composite video, s-Video or component video as chosen from the menu), two computer graphics video inputs

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The recent purchase of a Panasonic AVS-400 multi-format live vision mixer, Christie S+20K Roadster projector, Barco DCS 200 dual channel seamless switcher and additional Grass Valley Turbo iDDR digital media recorder/players has reinforced the company's commitment to quality.

"High definition is becoming more and more of a client requirement and so we have to ensure that we can deliver it whenever requested," says PSP's David Woodcock.

"The AVS-400 and DCS-200 are both tremendously versatile. With great input and output flexibility for all formats, they provide the ultimate in vision mixing and switching capabilities and are also remarkably cost effective.

"We aim to deliver the ultimate in visual quality an

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It was 1979 when the first Trace Elliot amplifiers became available and these quickly revolutionised the way the industry perceived bass amplification. Coincidentally it is also 20 years since this was repeated for acoustic players with the launch of Trace Acoustic in 1989.

With both ranges again generating much interest, these milestones are being celebrated with the imminent release of an entertaining and insightful video. This refers to the continuity of the origin of the brand's design and also reveals some of the reasons that make these brands different.

The five and a half minute video will be officially released on the first day of the 2009 Frankfurt Musikmesse, 1 Aprilt, and will be freely available in

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Woodstock Reprise - Michael Lang, the co-founder of the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival, is reportedly seeking sponsors for a 40th anniversary reprise in New York City. "The chances that something will happen are probable," he told the Times. "But I don't really have the answer yet as to what that will be." Central Park has been suggested as a possible location for the event. The Who were among the acts who played at the original concert, which took place in Bethel, New York State. A 30th anniversary concert