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Entech 2006

Details: 14 March 2016

Australia - With just a few weeks to go, the entertainment technology industry is getting ready to surprise visitors with the latest products and releases. The trade show will be held on 13 - 15 February with the conference commencing on Sunday 12 February. The Entech conference offers exciting training and education in broadcast, pro audio, lighting and vision.

Industry professionals should note that the fully accredited OH&S course is filling up quickly and will sell out again. There are three days of training taking place. To register, go to www.entech-tradeshow.com.

(Chris Henry)

Lighthouse Screens Broadcast Fair Message

Details: 14 March 2016

Spain - One of Lighthouse Technologies' key European rental partners, Spanish audio-visual specialist Stereorent, ensured its stand was an eyecatching highlight of the International Madrid Broadcast Fair, by utilising a pair of large format Lighthouse LED video screens.

This, the 12th Broadcast Fair, was held from 15th-18th November in Madrid's Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I. Held biennially, the event is a key date in the calendar for Spanish audio-visual professionals, with manufacturers and service providers the key exhibitors.

The Stereorent stand's main screen comprised over 9sq.m of Lighthouse R6 6mm panels. In addition, the Barcelona-based company was exhibiting its SRL1012 vehicle, which carries a 12sq.m Lighthouse R10 10mm screen. Both were used to display a range of footage of events organised by Stereorent and other live events where the company has been an audio-visua

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Martin Architectural and Philips at ARC 06

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Building on the successful collaboration between Martin Architectural and Philips Lighting, ARC 06 will provide the platform to showcase the lighting solutions offered by both companies. Martin Architectural and Philips say the companies will feature dynamic solutions in the areas of interior and exterior architectural lighting as well as in the growing sector of health and wellbeing. "As the demand for more creative solutions grows, Martin Architectural and Philips are ideally placed to offer a wide range of programmable lighting possibilities including exciting colour changing capabilities," the companies say.

Situated prominently on the mezzanine level, visitors to the adjoining stands M26 and M26a will have an ideal opportunity to see a whole host of interior and exterior lighting solutions, including LEDs, wash lighting, controls, track, and spot lighting to

Color Kinetics

Details: 14 March 2016

New from Color Kinetics was iColor Flex SL, a multi-purpose, LED-based strand of light that can generate video-based effects and accommodate expansive installations without the constraints of fixture size, shape, or space. Also new was ColorBlaze, for large-area scenery and wash lighting for theatres, TV studios, concerts, events, casinos and exhibits.

Interactive Technologies

Details: 14 March 2016

Interactive Technologies showed the CueServer, a Web-enabled show playback processor. The product's console-like controls appear in your web browser - cue lists, stage views, playback faders, and event triggers. Another product, DMX-To-Go, provides wireless DMX links that are cost-effective, easy-to-use, small, and self-powered, the company says.

Notion Music

Details: 14 March 2016

Sound designers will want to check out Notion, from Notion Music, which allows them to enter, edit, and manipulate data-rich notation from their workstation or MIDI instrument. For the first time, the company says, you can compose directly to the orchestra without file conversions, patches, sequencers, or separate sample batches.

Tomcat

Details: 14 March 2016

Tomcat went "a little bit country" with the announcement of its new Nashville office, due to open in 2006, headed up by Max Wilson. Combined with the company's depot at United Staging in Connecticut, the Nashville office will enable the company to get closer to its customers, says president Mitch Clark.

Horizon Control and Genlyte/Vari-Lite

Details: 14 March 2016

Designed by Horizon Control, and seen on the Genlyte/Vari-Lite booth, the Marquee ILD lighting control console software V3.0 adds an effects editor. Besides allowing you to build your own effects onto any lighting attribute, the effects-editor feature includes pre-defined effects, such as ballyhoo, can-can, circle, rainbow, intensity wave, etc. Independent attribute timing gives programmers the ability to add unlimited cue dynamics on every attribute of every fixture in every cue.

Total Structures

Details: 14 March 2016

Total Structures' CFO Peter Johns was on good form at LDI. Following a tough time for the company, business is on the up again, and at the time of the show, the company was undertaking a major motor show build for Ford at the Cobo Hall in Detroit which, incredibly, is the single biggest job TS has ever done. Johns also reported that Kleege Industries has bought its fourth roof system from the company, which it will be using for the Coachella Festival in California. Other big projects for the company recently have included the provision of towers and a massive 8" steel cable spanning 210ft - all to suspend a small speaker cluster above an amphitheatre - at the Getty Villa in Malibu . . .

Staging Dimensions

Details: 14 March 2016

Staging Dimensions showed its Pixel Panels, modular interlocking deck pieces with programmable LED technology. The company now also handles the Soft-LED curtain from Main Light Industries.

Zero 88

Details: 14 March 2016

Zero 88 had an excellent presence on the stand of US distributor ACT Lighting to show its range of lighting control products, including the Frog console which, incredibly, has now been on the market for five years. The company was showing the 10th version of the Frog's software, which now offers programming down to individual parameter level, as well as Tracking and Move on Dark features. Also on show was the V2.0 software for the more powerful Frog 2 console, and the new mid-level memory console, the Jester.

Also being demonstrated alongside Zero 88 was the Arkaos VJ software for DMX consoles. Aimed primarily at nightclub environments, Arkaos allows lighting operators to trigger visual media through the lighting control desk. The package offers simple and intuitive operation, say the company.

Le Maitre

Details: 14 March 2016

Le Maitre showed the Radiance hazer, defined by greater output, onboard DMX, and an internal fan. Also shown was Le Torcia, a hand-held flame effect powered by butane, and the Power Fog 90 unit.

Meyer Sound

Details: 14 March 2016

Meyer Sound's big news was its acquisition of LCS, maker of sophisticated multi-channel digital audio-mixing and processing products and electronic acoustic enhancements.

Clay Paky America

Details: 14 March 2016

Clay Paky America showed the new members of the Italian manufacturer's Alpha range: the Alpha Spot 700, Alpha Spot 1200 and Alpha Spot HPE 1200. The first features a 15-40° zoom, CMY colour-mixing, and 14 gobos, plus an animation disk. Alpha Spot 1200 is 1,200W effects projector with a 15-40° zoom, CMY colour-mixing, and 14 gobos plus animation disc. The HPE edition has 10-40° zoom, CMY colour-mixing, and a seven-colour wheel.

Spectra supplies Nobel Prize Awards

Details: 14 March 2016

Sweden - Lighting specialist Spectra supplied creative design and production management services, plus all lighting and AV equipment to the prestigious 2005 Nobel Prize Awards Banquet, staged at the Blue Hall of Stockholm's City Hall.

Sweden's highest profile event of the year was attended by the King, Queen and other members of the Royal Family, a host of Nobel Laureates, politicians, dignitaries and VVIPs - around 1,400 guests in all. The entire evening was broadcast live on Swedish National television's SVT1.

Spectra instigated several important technical firsts for the occasion, including stunning roof projections, created using the new Catalyst Version 4 digital media server. The event was also the European debut for Wybron's new Nexera tungsten colour-changing wash fixtures. Spectra also utilised SGM's latest Giotto Synthesis 700 moving lights, Barco R18s for the project

Strong Entertainment Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

Strong Entertainment Lighting's Jack Schmidt is now officially retired, but he's still very much in evidence in his consultancy role. The company showed a new followspot featuring an 850W DC (and thereforeflicker-free) metal halide Ushio lamp source, which Schmidt says produces an output equivalent to a 1600W Xenon. Latest developments to the Super Trouper include a new ammeter on the back of the unit which is compatible with either 220V/50Hz or 110V/60Hz operation, allowing the units to be toured between regions without switching meters.

Schmidt's successor, Jack Gallagher, was keen to reinforce the company's reputation as a leading innovator: on display was a list of the company's innovations in followspot technology dating back to the first carbon arc Super Trouper in 1948, and the first Xenon Super Trouper in 1971; it also mentions the Super Trouper being immortalised by pop legend

Coemar

Details: 14 March 2016

Products at the Coemar booth included the Mini-Cyc, the Parlite LED, the iWash Halo, and the iSpot S.

Stage Technologies

Details: 14 March 2016

As we reported in the news last month, Stage Technologies' main announcement at LDI was the opening of a permanent US office in Las Vegas, to be headed by Kevin Taylor. Having contributed extensive stage automation expertise to the major Cirque du Soleil show KA at the MGM Grand (see L&SI May 2005), and with other major projects ongoing, the US office is a timely move for the company. John Hastie commented that the US office is also involved in some film work (the UK office has too - the latest Harry Potter movie being an example). As to LDI, 'pretty quiet' was the verdict.

City Theatrical

Details: 14 March 2016

City Theatrical continued its line of power supplies for Color Kinetics LED fixtures. The PDS-750-TR provides power and DMX-control capability for the ColorBlast. Also, the AutoYoke is now available with WDS wireless DMX technology, say the company.

Martin Professional

Details: 14 March 2016

Martin Professional's international stage, studio and event segment manager, Mark Ravenhill, had just settled into his new Florida home, following his move from Denmark, and was having an "absolutely great" show.He showed us the company's latest prototype moving head, the Mac TW1 ('Tungsten Wash') - its first incandescent fixture, following many requests, said Ravenhill. The idea, he explains, was to achieve "everything in one fixture": no small aim. It consists of a new, magnesium-bodied head on a Mac 2000 yoke sitting on a Mac 700 base, sensibly taking advantage of tried and tested components. It features a twin-lensed zoom system, an internal dimmer (various dimming curves are available), plus a connection for external dimming; it also includes full CMY colour mixing, very precise movement, a quarter-turn lamp access door and is 110/230V compatible. Its patented (a

XLNT

Details: 14 March 2016

XLNT gave the official US debut of its Cyberhoist/InMotion 3D motion control system, winning LDI's Rigging Product of the Year Award in the process to add to its PLASA Award for Innovation, won in 2004. The system's two main elements are the InMotion 3D programming and control software and an unlimited number of CyberHoist intelligent motors. The dedicated DataMotion Ethernet network and PowerMotion power distribution system complete the package.

Show Distribution and Chainmaster

Details: 14 March 2016

Show Distribution revealed that it has supplied to Tait Towers the biggest Chainmaster Variolift system in the world, for the current Jon Bon Jovi tour. The company also has gear out with the Foo Fighters (due to be covered in depth in L&SI, February 2006) and other music acts.

Vari-Lite

Details: 14 March 2016

Seen earlier at PLASA, but hotly anticipated in the US was the return of Vari-Lite's VL5 in its updated guise as the VL500. There are four versions: the VL500 has the option of a 1,000W or 1,200W lamp and uses a conventional dimmer circuit for intensity control. The VL500D has a built-in IGBT dimmer but is otherwise identical to the standard VL500 - right down to the 12.5-to 20° beam angle. The VL500A is the arc-source version, with the option of either a 575W or 700W source. The VL500A is significantly narrower than its tungsten cousins, at 7.5 to 16.5°, and uses an external ballast. The VL500 80V uses an 80V/1,200W incandescent lamp, an external dimmer, and has a beam angle of 11-16.5°.

Apollo Design Technology

Details: 14 March 2016

Apollo Design Technology showed its new collection of gobo patterns for 2006. A neat new product was a tapered top hat for conventional fixtures. These can be stacked on top of one another, taking up just a tenth of the space of a normal collection of top hats.

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