USA - Barco/High End Systems announced today that it will be showcasing a broad spectrum of product offerings in their booth at LDI in Las Vegas. This year's event will serve as the launch pad for several new lighting products and upgraded solutions designed to illuminate live events with creative lighting effects.

Barco will introduce its new intellaspot XT-1, an advanced lighting fixture designed to set a new benchmark in price and performance, says the company. The intellaspot XT-1 offers innovations in optics, lamp configurations, high lumen output, energy efficiency, zoom range,

USA - Lighting designer Tim Dunn from Gearhouse South Africa will give a presentation about lighting the acclaimed Closing Ceremony for the 2010 FIFA World Cup for Robe at the Lighting Design International (LDI) exhibition 2010 staged in Las Vegas 22 - 24 October.

The presentation is currently scheduled to run once daily for the three days of the show - one of which will be in Spanish. Full details to follow. Interested parties can register for a place at the front desk of the Robe booth.

Robe ColorWash and ColorSpot 2500E ATs and REDWash 3-192s were used extensively - along with ot

Sweden - Wireless Solution Sweden has added Shelly Li to its sales team. Li is a native of China and speaks fluent Chinese as well as English. Her duties will include sales support to the Asian market as well as support to all of the W-DMX OEM partners in Asia. She will also work with the regional sales managers in Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania.

Li has six years working experience from a leading lighting manufacturer in China and she brings with her a vast network of connections in several countries where she worked as regional sales manager. She will work in t

UK - Compulite's new iControl App for the Apple iPhone and iPod is a powerful application to remotely control and edit basic functions of all Vector and Dlite lighting consoles.

The App provides real-time information of the console through a friendly user interface. By using the iControl App, you are able to control moving lights, conventional lights, create and store cues and libraries, add groups, control highlight and lowlight and more, says the company.

The application also allows you to control Pan and Tilt through an interactive trackball as well the ability to control all par

Germany / Austria - The National Theatre Mannheim, Oberhausen Theatre, and Osnabrück Theatre in Germany, as well as the Vienna State Opera are all investing in the MAC III Performance, Martin Professional's new 1500 W profile moving head with continuous framing system. The four venues will acquire a total of 48 Martin MAC III Performances, which will replace older Martin MAC 2000 Performances and Martin PAL 1200s, as well as fixtures of other manufacturers.

The Martin MAC III Performance is based on the successful MAC III Profile, which has proved its operational reliability for year

USA - Las Vegas was the destination earlier this year for two lucky winners of the Robert Juliat competition, staged in celebration of the company's 90th Anniversary.

Jean-Jacques Mansard, technical director of Le Channel Scène Nationale de Calais, and his wife, Isabelle, won the five-day trip for two to Las Vegas, with a four-night stay at the Caesar's Palace hotel, after entering the competition at the SIEL-SATIS 2009 show in Paris.

Visitors to the stand were invited to write a short testimonial about Robert Juliat products. These were subsequently entered into a draw, the first

UK - Lanta Lighting was an integral part of TV's The Gadget Show attempt at the world's largest game of Tetris. Viewers of Five's popular tech show saw one of Lanta's best selling LED lights enter the record books when 200 Fireball PAR Cans were used recently at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre.

Lanta's managing director, Grant Lester explains why the Fireball PAR64 TRI was chosen by The Gadget Show: "Everyone knows that LED fixtures use a fraction of the power of incandescent bulbs, so choosing this technology was an obvious choice." He continues "

USA - In the 12 months since setting up its North American operation under Mark Ravenhill, GLP German Light Products Inc has grown rapidly. Now the company is set to expand further, boosting its national sales force, with coast-to-coast representation.

With immediate effect, East Coast sales will be handled by Rick Fallon, who for the past 14 years has been dealer sales manager for lighting manufacturers and distributors Creative Stage Lighting, and prior to that worked in sales at theatrical supply and installation company BMI Supply.

The Central belt will be covered by Carl Wake,

USA - When you win your first NFL Super Bowl - as the New Orleans Saints did in February - a proper community space for celebration is a must, and is especially relevant in a city as renowned for celebration as New Orleans.

Champions Square is a new outdoor festival space conveniently located near the Louisiana Superdome (home to the New Orleans Saints) and New Orleans Arena. Used for a variety of events, its amenities, including the latest in Martin Professional dynamic lighting, make a suitable place to host pre- and post -game activities, outdoor concerts and festivals, special eve

UK - Blackburn- based lighting rental company HSL supplied Vari*Lite moving lights and over 700 Pulsar ChromaStrips of varying lengths for the new ITV series, Magic Numbers, produced by CPL and aired live weekly in the prime time Saturday night slot of8pm.

The show's lighting was designed by Tom Kinane, who has used HSL to supply lights to numerous shows in recent years. HSL's project manager was Sean McGlone, who comments, "It's always good to work with Tom and his team. The show looked fantastic, interesting and different, and we're especially happy to be working on such

USA - At LDI 2010, in addition to its traditional hospitality, Wireless Solution Sweden will display W-DMX Generation 4. G4 is able to repair corrupted data and vouches for maximum security by running on dual band and creating a backup duplicate of the signal.

The entire G4 product line includes Adaptive Frequency Hopping technology to avoid interference from Wi-fi, Intercom and other radio products, W-DMX invisi-wire and data-safe technologies for unparalleled fidelity, and support for RDM (Remote Device Management) so W-DMX units and lighting fixtures connected through W-DMX can be

USA - Apollo Design Technology will be displaying Multiform's latest LED Lighting products at LDI 2010. Following their successful launch at last year's show and a series of 'Big City Bash' exhibitions throughout the USA, Apollo will be presenting a display of LED lighting effects using the MultiSpot HP 1009 and the MultiBeam HP 1018

The MultiSpot HP delivers 27W of solid state lighting power, using Multiform's UCO (uniform colour output) approach, leaving the days of visible red, green and blue LEDs behind, says the company. The lens panel with 36 mm Clear Pass lenses has a beam angl

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USA - At this year's LDI, in addition to the traditional 'Village', TMB will also be hosting a dedicated demonstration suite for personalised demos of TMB high-tech exclusive products in an private and quiet setting. Located near the TMB Village, hands-on condensed training and personalised demos will be provided for Avolites, Hippotizer, Kinesys, LumenRadio (DMX only), Parrot, and more.

TMB and manufacturer product experts will be on hand to show the latest hardware, software, upgrades, and applications. TMB's Demo Suite will be open all hours of the show.

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USA - Lighting designer Doug 'Spike' Brant of Performance Environment Design Group used the Martin MAC 401 Dual on a special pregame show to kick off the 2010 NFL season and to honour the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints and the city of New Orleans.

The 60-minute pregame show - NFL Opening Kickoff 2010 Presented by EA Sports - featured performances by Grammy award-winning artists Dave Matthews Band and Taylor Swift. The show was broadcast live on 9 September on NBC and the NFL Network.

Brad Hafer of Atomic Lighting hooked up PEDG with the 401s for a test drive. "We

UK - Stage Electrics' specialist outdoor sports lighting team was in action at the Aviva London Grand Prix this summer as two days of world-class sports saw the world's top athletics stars jet into Crystal Palace.

Part of the new Samsung Diamond League, a series of the top 14 grand prix meets from around the world, the Aviva London Grand Prix featured in a BBC2 broadcast with event production by Fast Track on behalf of UKA, and broadcast facilities by SIS Live.

Stage Electrics, which has been involved in the event for the past six years, supplemented the installed lighting with broa

USA - Neil Young has long advocated a green lifestyle. This year saw Young embark on a solo acoustic tour with an eco friendly and starkly different lighting system. Long time Neil Young lighting designer Keith Wissmar was given the task to produce a visual array that was dynamic and budget friendly. Wissmar tuned to Dizzy Gosnell at Bandit and began to create his project.

In true Neil Young fashion, the base system began with the oldest lights in the business, fresnels, lekos and scoops. From there Wissmar layered on the latest technology, LED fixtures including GRN Battens and GRN W

Italy - Crystal Le Club is a new night destination venue in Brescia, Italy, located within the imposing Crystal Palace skyscraper. It's owned by renowned Italian singer Francesco Renga, his brother Stefano, and artistic director Dante Fontana.

There is one main room on the first floor plus a smaller 'Blanc De Blanc' VIP area below, and in keeping with the 'exclusive' feel of the venue, they wanted a super cool lighting scheme to compliment the stunning interior designs. This features lots of mirrored surfaces, branched candlesticks and crystal ornaments and objects which reflect light

Germany / USA - The third major update this year has been released for the LED lighting control software MADRIX. The new version 2.10 will be officially presented at LDI 2010 in Las Vegas. Again, this is a free update for every user of MADRIX. Among many improvements, there are several new central features including:

With MADRIX 2.10 users are now able to assign controls freely and individually for any MIDI console. The MIDI Remote Editor provides the tools to create simple as well as complex configurations to control the MADRIX software remotely. At the same time, several new MIDI ma

Eurovision 2011 - Dusseldorf will host next year's Eurovision Song Contest following Germany's victory in Oslo this year with Satellite by Lena Meyer-Landrut. It beat competition from Berlin, Hamburg and Hanover which all bid to host the event. The contest's three live events - semi-finals on 10 and 12 May and the final on 14 May - will take place at the Esprit Arena. "Dusseldorf 12 points," said Lutz Marmor, of German host broadcaster NDR. "I congratulate Dusseldorf cordially and, just as cordially, I thank the other three cities for going into the race enthusiast

USA - Jam band favourites Widespread Panic took a big step toward going green in 2010. Designer Paul Hoffman, tour manager Steve Lopez and production manager Chris Rabold all worked seamlessly with Bandit San Francisco GM Dizzy Gosnell throughout the year to continually develop and evolve new lighting system, each being a bit more LED than the one before.

Hoffman's equipment over the year has included 600 watt ACL's, Thomas 8 Lights, ETC Source 4's, VL 3500 Washes, VL 3000 Spots, Coemar Infinity Washes, Alpha Bean 300's, MAC 2000 Washes with Beam Kit, GRNLite PAR 3-36, GRNLite Batten

USA - PR Lighting has formed a new tactical alliance with North American dealer, Mega Systems Inc. As a result, the Texas-based company will take on national distribution of the manufacturer's high-end professional products - ranging from the XL-575 up to the powerful XL-1500 intelligent heads, and including the XL Beam 300 and XLED 590 high-output LED moving head washlight.

"We are very excited to offer a quality product line with all the features required by our industry," said Guillermo Cabada, president of Mega Systems. "The products will be sold at an affordable pr

Australia - Jands has completed the first installation of a CableNet system in Australia. The State Theatre Centre of Western Australia has been fitted with two CableNet Tension Wire Grids, which provide a safe high level access platform for theatre technicians to carry out settings and adjustments to lighting and sound equipment.

Located in Northbridge, WA, the State Theatre Centre (STC) is approaching the end of its construction, which is expected to be completed in late 2010. The STC will feature a 575 seat Heath Ledger Theatre and a 234 seat flexible Studio Underground

USA - UK-based specialist LED lighting manufacturer i-Pix will show six new products in its BB (Building Block) range at the 2010 LDI exhibition in Las Vegas on the stand of its Canadian distributor, Theatrixx.

Says i-Pix founder Chris Ewington, "We're following on from the massive success we had with launch of these at PLASA. Our R'n'D team has focussed the last 12 months on developing these dynamic new energy-saving fixtures, and we're confident that now is the right time to bring them to the market, with increasing awareness of 'green' issues and pending related legislation&qu

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