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14 March 2016

The incoming Lighthouse LED video screen is two-and-one-half times the size of the outgoing board, and will provide the PawSox faithful with a video experience generally reserved for watching Boston Red Sox games on NESN.

"Lighthouse is pleased to be a part of McCoy Stadium's continuing improvements," said Ed Whitaker, Lighthouse N.A.S.A director of sales. "Our LED video technology and experience is a perfect match for the Pawtucket organization's tradition of excellence."

Completely overhauled in 1999, McCoy Stadium is now considered by minor league insiders as perhaps the most fan-friendly minor league park in the country. Lighthouse's new Pi20-FRA 20mm LED vi

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On display will be the new compact and powerful Vector Violet and Vector Ultra Violet. The Vector Violet line offers the power, versatility and flexibility of the Vector consoles in a sleek, compact and affordable packaging, says the company. Also showing will be the new 3.18 Beta 'candidate release' software.

The Compulite and Feiner teams will be on hand to answer any questions as well as demonstrate the full capabilities of these consoles.

(Jim Evans)

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The warm white (3000 K) XLamp XP-G provides up to 114 lumens and 109 lumens per watt at 350 mA. Driven at 1.0 A, the XP-G warm-white produces up to 285 lumens at 84 lumens per watt, which is four times the light output than the highest available XLamp XR-E warm-white LED at equal efficacy.

The neutral-white (4000 K) XLamp XP-G provides up to 139 lumens and 132 lumens per watt at 350 mA. Driven at 1.5 A, the XP-G neutral-white produces up to 463 lumens, which is four times the light output of the XLamp XR

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The conference was organised by Paul Durose of The Leys School, Cambridge, and was hosted by Rugby School. The event was generously sponsored by White Light, Philips Selecon, Showcomms, A.C. Entertainment Technologies, Zero 88 and Stage Electrics, with workshops run by KV2 Audio, Philips Selecon and Showcomms.

Brian Attwood of The Stage newspaper chaired an open?forum session, in

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Through this transaction, Barco strengthens its position as a leading provider of LED, projection, image processing and lighting products. This comprehensive product portfolio allows Barco to serve customers with different budget levels in the media and entertainment market. Barco will not book any goodwill on this transaction.

"This expands Barco's portfolio for the mid-range markets," Eric Van Zele, Barco's president and CEO, comments. "Element Labs' products in these markets have proven their worth on many occasions and perf

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Designed to work as a one or two day course to suit all levels of interest, the response was "extremely positive", and all the places were filled predominantly with working riggers. Some also had lighting experience and were keen to further their knowledge of the system from a creative production angle so automation can be worked in to future visual designs.

HSL's Mike Oates was delighted with the results. "We'll definitely be running further Kinesys training in the future. The demand for knowledge is certainly there and we could have filled this course over again with no problem. I also feel very confident that I now have access to a pool of crew who understand the workings and capa

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"I have always been very interested in the Maxxyz consoles and had some hands on with the full size Maxxyz a few years back at Daystar television network. I loved how the console programmed and ran," stated Cory Fournier of Dallas, Texas, who at only 19 was hired as the tour's lighting director and also handled programming and lighting op duties on the tour.

Fournier LDed for the band during the summer of 2009 and came across many of the industry's top lighting consoles on that tour including Martin's Maxxyz Compact.

"I used them all and they did the job just fine but the Maxxyz stood out the most," he said. "We had been planning for the fall tour and I decided to

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14 March 2016

These were specified by LD John Gallagher for the All Ireland Talent Show, the second series of which is being shot on Stage B at Ardmore Studios outside Dublin and broadcast live every Sunday evening on Ireland's RTE1.

PSI had been considering Vari*Lites for some time explains PSI's Brian Reilly, due to an increasing number of requests for them from designers. "As a premium brand, we wanted to start building a stock, so when John specified them for the Talent Show, it made sense rather than cross-hiring." He adds that he thinks that Vari*Lites will also compliment their existing extensive stock of Robe moving lights very well

Many features have impressed him about Vari*Lites, in p

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DALD won the Lighting for Leisure award for The British Music Experience (BME) at The O2 in London. A.C. Special Projects assisted DALD with the specification and supply of the exhibition's theatrical based lighting fixtures and a cutting-edge lighting control system for the immersive exit show; a virtual concert featuring performances from some of the biggest UK acts.

DALD won the Low Carbon award for the Centre of the Cell at Whitechapel in London, an interactive science education centre housed inside a giant orange 'pod'. The centre offers children and teenagers an insight into what scientists actually do and how their work influences real life, through a series of exciting interactive games. A.C. Special Project

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A ship of this size and imagination required lighting that could accommodate its visionary design and range of attractions, while delivering the low-maintenance reliability and performance demanded by 24/7, indoor/outdoor use. Seeking this balance of features,

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Designed by Martin Valentine of AECOM's Lighting Group, the new scheme replaces 64 Philips Arena Vision metal halide floods with 32 Philips/Color Kinetics ColorReach Powercore LED fixtures. The fixtures can re-create - and actually improve on - the white light of the previous lighting scheme, bringing to life the landmark building's dramatic Romanesque architecture. However, the colour-mixing fixtures also provide many other lighting options which can be exploited by the museum's staff on a seasonal basis or for special events.

White Light undertook the installation on behalf of AECOM, A

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The grandMA2 light was programmed during production and technical rehearsals in Manchester Arena by David Bishop, and is being operated on the tour by lighting director Alex Murphy, who very much pushed to go with grandMA, having used a grandMA 'series 1' on U2's seminal 360 tour in 2009. He has been a firm fan of the desk ever since.

All lighting equipment for the Strictly Live tour is being supplied by south Wales-based Sonal

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Administered by the Hong Kong Leisure & Cultural Services Department, the 1434-seat Concert Hall is a multi-functional space capable of adapting to performances of symphony, chamber, recital, jazz, opera and chorus music, in addition to other forms of performing art, such as dance, drama and Chinese opera.

The Hong Kong Leisure & Cultural Services Department approached Robert Juliat dealer, Pacific Lighting, seeking to replace the venue's existing, aging lighting fixtures - a move which came about following the successful installation, in January 2008, by Pacific Lighting of 22 RJ 710SX 2K profiles into the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall.

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The store's façade design, featuring louver frames filling both sides of the building and leaving no space for windows, raised the need for not only a remote control system but a system monitoring solution. Martin Cyclo 02 color temperature changers equipped with dual control ballasts and two T5 28W 2700K fluorescent tubes were chosen to illuminate the louvers.

A custom made touch screen based control and monitoring system was developed. From the touch screen system it is possible to execute regular lighting scenes, run maintenance orienta

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This high profile event, launching Nike's new Mercurial Vapor Superfly II boot and the new National Team jerseys, required Stage One to work very closely with Slice, Patrick Donohue, Slice Events' design co-ordinator and the Nike design team, to deliver a themed environment in keeping with Nike's iconic brand.

"This project evolved greatly during the design and build process and we worked closely with the design team to accommodate any changes and offer practical construction solutions - demonstrating our can-do attitude an

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As a UK distributor for the Manfrotto / Avenger range of film & TV, broadcast and entertainment lighting supports, AC-ET will showcase products from their comprehensive range of stands, arms and brackets.

As a UK reseller for Groupe FOKIA, AC-ET will display a selection of products from the French group's portfolio. The QuartzColor line up includes the Redhead and Blonde portable focusing floodlights plus the Bambino location Fresnel range. The Balcar range includes the new Roundy fluorescent lighting interview kit. Other Groupe FOKIA brands available from AC-ET include LTM, IFF and Cokin.<

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Featuring dynamic control via DMX and DVI capabilities, the String and Dot XL offer flexible multipurpose lighting solutions designed to accomplish and enhance challenging installations. Architectural, hospitality, and entertainment industries can benefit from precise colour effects using over 16.7 million colours. Both are also available in sophisticated Cold White and Warm White options, suitable for showcasing merchandise in eye-catching store and retail applications.

"Due to

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The Showbiz CSR 300 lamp and the Showbiz CSR700, and CSR1500 HID lamps now offer a rear-load lamp base system, which allows for fast, easy installation of replacement of lamps in compact spaces such as stage productions, concerts, architectural lighting and any venue using moving-lights and intelligent lighting fixtures. The CSR TAL "turn and lock" product lines are mainly used in event lighting and are 100% compatible with fixtures that accept FastFit and Lok-it! products.

The Showbiz CSR300 TAL, CSR700/SA/TAL and CSR1500/SA/TAL are single-ended metal halide lamps especially useful for moving-light applications that call for high colour temperatures and brighter light sources.

The "turn and lock" technology provides easy instal

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Three models are available: PacificFader3 provides CYM colour mixing for use with tungsten sources; PacificFader4 provides CYM plus a smooth optical dimmer for use with energy efficient CDM, CST or MSR arc sources; and PacificFader5 offers CYM plus optical dimmer plus Morpheus' exclusive variable 2x CTO for colour correction of daylight arcs.

"PacificFader offers the ability to combine CMY colour mixing with the superior op

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According to Osram, the PrevaLED Core product family provides a wide range of lumen output options from 800lm to 3.000lm at a system efficiency of up to 75lm/W and is available in the colour temperatures 3,000K and 4,000K. A special feature of this system is its outstanding light quality with a colour rendering index (CRI) >90, without compromises in system efficiency. Thanks to the system design, currently available lumen packages will be availa

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Reed reports: "The Oscars set replicates an apartment overlooking LA from the Hollywood Hills, so my main reason for using the Alpha Beam 300 was that I needed an exceptionally bright and narrow beam animated light source to imitate Oscars night sky dancing lights with a little bit of atmospheric 'haze' The cameras would see very powerful beams of light dancing across the Sky Line giving the impression that

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The Robin Series of moving lights is expanded to include a powerful and versatile 600 range and a Classic 300 range of fully-featured value-conscious units.

The ColorBeam 2500E AT is added to Robe's AT Series, taking the concept of concentrated high powered lightsources into a new dimension, and Light4ce is a new robust and very bright range of indoor and outdoor LED fixtures.

The Profile version of Robe's flagship ColorSpot 1200E AT series drew a lot of interest from theatre and TV market after its preview at the last PLASA show. On top of many the features and functions of the ColorSpot 1200E AT it has inbuilt modular framing shutters that enable the fixture to be used like any standard profile discharge lightsource, when very precise framing and pin-pointing of

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Previewing at the show for the first time is the Chroma-Q Color Force 72 / 48 range of 6ft / 1.8m, 12,000 lumens output and 4ft / 1.2m, 8,000 lumens output LED battens. With super bright light output, the range provides a smooth, uniform coverage for washing areas up to 26ft / 8m high.

Also previewing is the Chroma-Q Color Charge, a 600 lumens, rechargeable battery powered, ultra portable LED light source which combines wireless control with an environmentally friendly NiMH battery and interchangeable head design.

The new generation of Chroma-Q LED models, which includes the Color Block 2 multi-purpose fixture, feature advanced RGBA colour mixing and control management technologies. Together these provide an increased colour palette,

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In line with its commitment to the highest levels of customer support, Pulsar has extended its product guarantee to three years with immediate effect.

All Pulsar product ranges are now automatically covered by the Pulsar Three Year Product Guarantee. This serves to endorse Pulsar's investment in quality, design and manufacturing processes for its ChromaRange LED fixtures and lighting control system products alike.

(Jim Evans)