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As a global IT distributor, Avnet provides a variety of services designed to assist partners in bringing end-to-end digital signage solutions to the market quickly and cost-effectively. Bas Smeets, business development manager at Advantech explains the motives of partnering with Avnet: "With the tremendous growth in demand for professional digital signage and retail/hospitality solutions in Europe, Avnet's comprehensive experience and large customer base will help Advantech expand its business in this area."

Advantech provides an extensive range of reliable and innovative products that will help to com

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The lighting for the duration of the festival was looked after at the venue by Walter Lutzu, who has also been a keen Robe user for some time and loves the new Pointe multi-purpose fixtures in particular. He says: "It's a great product, lightweight and compact, with a host of features that make it highly versatile."

With Elita being an EDM festival, there was a need for lots of backlighting and filling the stage space with lights.

Six of the Pointes were positioned on the floor behind the DJ booth. For De La Soul's performance, these were re-positioned to be b

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Several new features have also been added to enhance BlackBox Recorder workflow, with improvements to Track Name templates, Sony 9-pin control and Master/Slave playback when using multiple units together for higher track counts. There are also more options for footswitch control enabling hands-free placement of Markers and the ability to toggle between Record/Sto

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With its rugged construction and ability to playback CD from its front-loading mechanism or internet radio, network files and mobile media via its Bluetooth connection, the CD-200BT is designed for professional contractor applications.

Users can pair up to eight Bluetooth devices at a time in order for quick switching and playback. Also supported is the use of the aptX codec to ensure a much higher quality and more reliable audio signal transmitted via Bluetooth.

The CD-200BT is equipped with controls for fast track/file selection, multiple playback modes, ±14% pitch control and also includes a wireless remote control. Like all models in the signature CD-200 series, the CD-200

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Ottawa, Canada based global bio-energy products industry expert Don G Roberts, was due to address the conference staged at Stationers' Hall (full name The Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers) in central London, when with less than 24 hours' notice before his scheduled departure, he received the medical advice.

Eclipse, which manages all the venue's 'in-house' AV and technical requirements, thought quickly and stepped in with their new videoconferencing service as the solution.

The Eclipse team supported Roberts and created the means to enable him to be linked from a laptop at his home in Ottawa to

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Capital Sound was on hand to make sure the company that built its business on music got the audio it deserved by specifying Martin Audio's new ultra-compact and scalable MLA Mini for the first time in the main event space.

Capital's client TiRA (This is Real Art), a London based design agency, was tasked with developing a theme to showcase Virgin's 40 years of music and then roll it out across the anniversary gigs, book, exhibition and fundraiser.

Paul Timmins of Capital Sound was audio project manager, while Harm Schopman took on the role of Capital crew chief and engineer.

"The MLA Mini was amazingly effective," says Schopman. "A PA in

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Whilst successful, owner Mr Wong decided that if he wanted to ensure his top billing amongst the young, wealthy elite of Beijing, he'd have to take things a step further. As a result, 2013 has seen another full redesign, inside and out including a new APG sound system. This time, APG distributor BVCAM, specified a Uniline D system for the main room - the first Uniline installation in China - supplemented by DX12 and DX15 delays throughout the club with bass reinforcement coming from a number of TB118s and SB115 subs. A number of separate APG systems were also specified for the

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Having never before made a big event out of its windows unveiling, Bergdorf Goodman decided to change its demure attitude and approached STREB earlier this year with a request for a show-stopping extravaganza. This year's theme, Holidays on Ice, features display windows devoted to various annual American celebrations and STREB acrobats opened the show by dancing down the outside walls of the Fifth Avenue store, not unveiling the windows until they reached ground level.

Nate Terracio, STREB's production manager, said, "We were asked to create a showpiece that would really get eve

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Ku?ini?, based in Zagreb, Croatia started working with the popular singer, musician and composer this year. Ku?ini? is a well-known LD in Croatia and was offered the gig following his high profile work with Croatian rockers Prljavo Kazaliste plus a plethora of musicals, concerts and events.

Gibonni is in the middle of a tour at the moment but this was a special show and saw a much anticipated and awaited performance in Serbia.

The starting point for the Belgrade show's lighting design was to create a rig that looked as awesome as possible with as expedient amount of fixtures as possible ..

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"Our equipment is mainly designed for recording sound and it is used across a wide range of film projects and broadcast programming," says Romain Becquet, sales manager at Tapages & Nocturnes. "We own more than 1,200 wireless systems from all of the main manufacturers, and a lot of intercom systems. We also have an extensive range of DPA microphones that are in great demand because our customers find them very versatile and reliable."

The most commonly requested models are the DPA d:screet 4060 Miniature Microphone and the d:fine ran

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VDC CEO Niall Holden said, "This is a considerable investment but natural extension of our capability to deliver bespoke copper-based solutions. It represents a major step forward in our in-house cable technology and, as one of only four similar laboratories in the UK, will enable us to offer a vastly superior fibre optic service to our clients, but with the same great solution design and production t

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Said Christie Lites VP Rentals Ken Alexander, "We are proud of this new expansion which allows us to directly service our already loyal Northeast client base like never before and also provides the perfect avenue to reach new clients in the months and years to come."

Christie Lites New York has been unofficially operating for the past few months while ramping up and accumulating equipment inventory prior to any official opening announcement. Since October, the CLNY office has fulfilled several tour preps including a new NETworks Presentation

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The GORS cultural centre has two concert halls, a cinema, an art school, an exhibition space, a restaurant where you can enjoy the pleasure of life, and a few rooms where dance companies and orchestras may rehearse: everything has a pulsating rhythm and is full of life.

A new building has been built in the park, on a bend in the river, near the 'United for Latvia' monument, known among the people as 'Latgales M?ra'. The purpose of

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Lighting designer and programmer Michael Grundner, event designer Ernst Hainisch and production manager Christoph Trauner (the latter two from Multisound) used 22 Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s, along with an MA system to manage the lights.

Grundner underlined that, "The Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s won me over with their great brightness and the way it is possible to change and sha

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Via Capital Sound Hire she sourced an inventory of Martin Audio's sleek LE1500 wedge monitors and W8LM Mini Line Array elements for side fills - emulating the set-up she had first seen Rod Matheson deploy, when she was teching for him on Kylie Minogue's 2008 tour. "He decided to deploy the LMs in an unusual way and it worked really well," she said.

The rationale once gain was simple. With Sarah and her four-piece band on in-ears, and with most of the inputs DI'd, she wanted to create an enveloping stage 'feel' in unobtrusive fashion, to preserve the overall look of the show.

"Sarah had previously used flown side-fills, but I've never been a fan of them for several reasons," says Pell. &q

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Recently, Live Nation (Music) UK Limited decided that the foyer lighting needed updating as part of the venues O2 rebranding. Whilst researching potentially suitable fixtures, Simon Williams, the venue's head technician, approached local lighting experts GLS Lighting Ltd for advice. Ian Turner from GLS suggested the MilTec Batten2 as a suitable fixture, and so a demo was arranged. The result was that eight of the Batten2s have been installed along with two Par144Q led pars by the in house technical crew, along with new DMX distribution and associated cabling.

Williams commented, "The new MilTec fixtures have replaced s

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The Smart PAL Card looks the same as the standard PAL Card - the data stored on the card, such as the operator name, number and categories trained in, is also printed on it. The only difference is that the Smart PAL Card is marked by a wireless icon and has a chip embedded in it.

The data in the chip can be read by a card reader fitted to the machine. The reader can be set up to accept certain data which in turn will allow the machine to be operated. This data includes whether or not the cardholder (operator) is trained, to what lev

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This comprised entirely of PR Lighting moving discharge and LED heads from their large inventory of the Chinese manufacturer's fixtures.

The lighting had to be purpose designed by the organising committee to meet the requirements of both the live audience - comprising the Secretary General Commonwealth of the Commonwealth, Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and various Ministers and Foreign delegates - as well as the television audience. As a result the fixtures first had to undergo camera tests.

Under the production management of Dhanushka Fernando of Dynamic AV large quantities of PR Solo 575

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Within each capsule of the London Eye, there was an individual lighting scheme for each club brand and even the TV show Channel 4 House Party had their own pod. Altogether there were thirty clubs, 31 live streams and over one million online viewers.

PRG's account manager Andrew Strachan comments, "Lighting each of the London Eye capsules individually was a real challenge. 32 pods, 32 technicians and one rotation of the eye to get it right - and we did! As well as lighting the capsules we also transformed the

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Plans to completely refurbish and upgrade the art deco-style pavilion were approved in 2011, with the 12-month project commencing last October. The pier itself first opened in 1895 and has great heritage within the coastal town of Penarth. The original pavilion was lost to fire and replaced by the current structure, which opened to the public in 1929. However, it fell into a poor state as its fortunes waned - including being hit by two large vessels in 1947 and 1966 - and it was later closed in the 1970s.

Funded by the Big Lottery Fund, Coastal Communities Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund, Welsh Assembly Government and Penarth Arts and Crafts Ltd (PALC), Vaughan Sound has played