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There will be a heavy focus on market education and the stand will incorporate a dedicated technical service meeting space, manned by Christie certified engineers, where free consultation will be offered to all delegates, who will be apprised of the full extent of Christie's pro AV support services. This will be boosted by a dedicated seminar theatre, surrounded by videowall and MicroTiles Interactive zones, the presentation space for a new outdoor LCD flat panel LCD and a 1-chip DLP gallery

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The building's main conference hall seats 350 people, and ensuring that they all get a good view was the installers' key concern. The solution they chose was a Supernova Infinity screen measuring 5500mm x 3094mm, made of the standard 08-85 material to achieve the highest image possible, and driven by two Panasonic PT-DW100 10000 ANSI lumen projectors working in 'dot-by-dot' mode.

"We chose the screen size and material to give everyone a bright, clear image, and deliver the high contrast you need for viewing material on video," explains Ascreen brand manager, Oleg Gukov.

In two areas of the courthouse strong ambient li

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Charcoalblue will kick off sponsorship this spring as the TMA's Touring Symposium takes place at the Congress Centre in central London on Wednesday 6 March.

The TMA's premier annual event has established itself as the key forum for debate on the development of the UK touring industry. It provides a unique opportunity for venue managers, producers and directors to discuss and determine the environment and practical operation of their sector. Last year's Symposium attracted a record breaking 238 delegates from all over the UK.

"The TMA is delighted to have secured a three-year partnership with Charcoalblue," says David Brownlee, general manager of the Theatrical Management Associ

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Louis Lukusa commented, "We are delighted to continue working with A&H, this is a leading brand with a long history of innovative products. We are looking forward to developing a successful business and to ensure customer satisfaction at the very highest levels."

"Louis and Jan have many years of experience in distributing A&H in the Belgian market, and they have established a strong dealer network, which has great confidence in their expertise and skills," explains A&H regional sales manager, Norbert

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Culture Secretary Maria Miller and BOA Chairman Lord Sebastian Coe announced that the companies which helped build the Park, venues and provided goods and services for the Games will be able to actively promote their work on the London 2012 Games. The move is designed to provide a significant boost to the country's economy by helping firms land contracts and deals on the back of their involvement with the London 2012 Games.

The new deal will benefit tens of thousands of British co

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"The Godset is run by an amalgam of volunteers and music organisations and provides a wonderful platform for developing grass roots talent, but our commitment to professional quality means that we have a national profile that attracts acts of international stature. Our success provides a feel good factor that politicians recognise as something of a vote

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The fixture houses a Luminus PhlatLight CBT-90-W Big Chip white LED source - designed for demanding applications that require maximum lumen density, efficiency and reliability. With a 6500K colour system, power consumption is just 120W at 220V.

Features include a colour wheel comprising eight colours (plus white) and a gobo wheel (with 11 gobos plus white). The head movement offers adjustable speed 540° (pan) and 190° (tilt), with pan, tilt, swap and invert function, auto position correction and magnetic sensor positioning.

Other features include 0-100% linearly adjustable dimmer, electronic strobe (with 0.3-20fps) and standard beam angle of 20°. Control is via DMX512 (11 cha

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As commercial account manager Kelly will be supporting reseller partners and training programmes, and provide end users with a dedicated solution for their commercial needs. He joins Crestron with a good knowledge of its products and solutions, having worked for over five years at an AV conferencing distributor. He says "I am looking forward to joining a market leader and such a forward thinking company. In my previous role I was in the AV industry dealing with products for a distributer, so I have a good knowledge of Crestron's solutions and the market. I am looking forward to extending upon this knowledge and developing it fu

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Those interested in submitting bids to be UK City of Culture 2017 are being asked to register with

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"No one is building schools, hospitals, hotels or office spaces that aren't energy efficient, networked and digital," says Robin van Meeuwen, VP of sales and marketing at Crestron International. "While the various technologies and systems may be on the network, they all run separately. Our clients want and expect all systems on the network to work together in an intelligent w

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Kramer Electronics is a leading manufacturer of high-quality analogue and digital audio, video and computer signal management products for the ProAV industry. ComQi (formed from the merger of Minicom Digital Signage and EnQii) is a leading digital in-venue media management company.

The agreement provides Kramer Electronics with exclusive manufacturing, sales and marketing rights for ComQi's (MiniCom Digital Signage) media distribution products, and allows Kramer to provide an end-to-end digital media solution encompassing media distribution, network management, content management and proof-of-performance, on various digital signage platforms, such as mobile web and computer

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From small beginnings it has grown to become a huge resource to technicians all over the world, receiving well over 5m million hits per month from over 70,000 unique monthly visitors. Members have contributed over 450,000 posts to the site over the 10 years, with over 19,000 members using the site from across the industry.

The Blue Room technical forums are very pleased to be celebrating this landmark

birthday and hope for many more years of support, advice and friendship to come. Peter Kirkup commented, "Richard and I would like to thank all of the users for making us a huge success. We look forwar

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The multi-deck layered stage was designed by leading Bollywood set designer Varsha Jain, and this, the Milos roof system, all trussing, rigging and assorted scaffolding and structures utilised on site were supplied by Chennai based 'Men At Work Stagecraft Management Pvt Ltd'. The project was managed for them by Mankaran Singh.

The Milos roof system measured 24m wide by 18m deep with 13m of headroom. Various trusses were sub hung from its mother-grid, including six straight ones of different lengths and four circular - one at 8m, one at 4m and two 6m diameters.

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Gray, of London-based lighting creator Renegade, specified 24 pure-beam Sharpys to create a high impact welcome for 1600 A-list guests at the Turbine Hall party to celebrate the release of Sam Mendes's James Bond film Skyfall.

The Sharpys were positioned pointing directly toward to entrance, shooting piercing shafts of light down The Bridge at arriving guests, taking advantage of Sharpys brightness usually achievable only with far greater wattages than its 189W rating, and the fixture's ability to produce a perfectly parallel, laser-like beam with an incredible output of 59,760 lx at 20m.

"I've been a long term user of Clay Paky luminaires for these sort of shows as well as for all my Kasabian concer

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As has now become custom, Marenghi placed a moving light into each of the 32 capsules on the London Eye and once again turned to the CRMX Technology to provide the critical wirele

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Together, these raised nearly 2m Euros for the Ronald McDonald House Charities.

The events - staged at the Albert Schultz Ice Hall in Vienna and the Postpalast in Munich - were attended by a glittering guest list of leading business people, politicians, celebrities and sports personalities, and featured a wide variety of live performers.

Robe SRO and Swiss distributors Signal also contributed directly to both events, with the provision of 12 additional Robin LEDBeam 100 fixtures for both concerts.

Weinhardt's designs varied slightly to take into account the different venues, but the essence was to be as adaptable as possible to make sure that all the act

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As with Audinate's other networked products, Ultimo uses high-quality, low-jitter clocks with ±1?s time alignment between networked devices. Ultimo does not require specialised switches, and works with existing network infrastructure.

Ultimo includes well-established Dante features like automatic device discovery, plug-and-play networking, network-based firmware updates, and customization of device names and channel labels.

"The Ultimo integrated chip solution accel

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ClickShare's new dual display functionality may well be the most exciting of the new features: when two displays are connected to the ClickShare Base Unit, the latter will automatically activate 'Dual display mode' and show the content on both screens. This is especially useful for businesses with a video conferencing system: when they don't use the video conferencing mode, they can now pres

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Boasting a stunning 3.9mm pixel pitch, X3 is Lighthouse's highest resolution LED screen to date and opens up a new world of creative possibilities for the indoor rental and staging market. X3 addresses the needs of a variety of disciplines including set and stage designers, concert touring and television shows producers and shows design specialists and is destined to become the preferred choice for the market, says the company.

Developed in conjunction with XL Video, a leading player in the AV rental and staging business, X3 combines Lighthouse's processing and a sophisticated mechanical design developed by XL Video, resulting in a unique curable and flexible joint structure that allows the screen to be shape

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Magenta's fully digital Voyager Series of fibre-optic based products, which began shipping in 2011, extend, switch and distribute video (including HDCP protected content) and auxiliary signals digitally over fibre-optic cable.

The new Voyager 4-port core (now shipping) can serve as the heart of any transmitter or receiver and opens up an additional sphere of distribution options - use as a 1x4 distribution amplifier, as a 4x1 switch or as a daisy-chainable receiver with the ability to route signals in four different directions. The Voyager four-port core is also a key component in enabling Voyager matrix switching solution