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14 March 2016

On the White Light Stand, James Thomas Engineering will launch their new JT30 & JT40 truss systems. Visitors are invited to join White Light and James Thomas for the press launch, followed by a champagne reception on Wednesday 10 April at 4pm on stand A55 in Hall 9.0.

Paul Young of James Thomas explains the value of these new products for the market saying, "We have gone to great lengths to take all the good features of existing truss products of this size and add our own innovative edge to create a ne

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The Tibo range, already the recipient of an 'Etoile du SIEL' award, offers a mix-and-match choice of light source (LED, tungsten-halogen and discharge), lens type (Fresnel and profile) and body colour. Designers and technicians can choose from this wide selection of components, to find lighting solutions to suit any application - whether it is for theatre, architecture, TV studio, event, display or retail purposes, the company says.

The new additions to be launched at Prolight+Sound include two new profiles offering a choice of dynamic variable white LED or HID sources, and a Fresnel version available in all types of Tibo light s

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14 March 2016

"We are proud and happy to have someone of Harry's professional stature become part of the European Elation team," said Dirk Kast, general manager of Elation Professional Europe. "Harry is widely known throughout our industry as a motivated and dedicated team player. His long-time experience and substantial knowledge of the lighting market will help us better serve our customers and will contribute greatly to Elation's continued growth and expansion."

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With over 20 years' experience in technical sales environments, Laverick moves into the pro-AV business after working in a number of related fields such as IT, telecoms, networking, and test and measurement.

"I've been doing channel management for a number of years and have acquired a lot of experience building distribution and sales networks on an international scale," comments Laverick.

"Calibre UK is a great company with great people - and working with people is what I really like doing. This job represents a refreshing change of t

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14 March 2016

The AC-ET stand will provide the exclusive EMEA tradeshow unveiling of the already award-winning Chroma-Q Inspire LED house light and the new AutoLED II moving head fixture.

The Inspire house light is a powerful multi-purpose creative lighting tool that provides a choice of beautiful whites, soft pastels and bold saturates - all from one fixture. With fully homogenised colour mixing and a choice of three different lens options, the Inspire provides an excellent selection of stunning mixed colours and 'true' whites, with no unsightly colour separation shadows. It also features an energy-efficient compact LED design providing reduced maintena

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"The USTA (United States Tennis Association) charged its entertainment group with energising its traditional US Open Opening Night Ceremony, and what fans saw this year was unprecedented, immersive and memorable", says Christien Methot of design one lighting and production design, who served as the lighting designer. "Two years ago Michael Fiur, entertainment director for the USTA, asked me to get involved, in conjunction with Overland Entertainment, in creating an Opening Ceremony spectacular. They've had singers in the past but always used stadium lights. We started talking about the creative aspects of the show -

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14 March 2016

Assisted by stalwart Stones lighting director and programmer Dave Hill and lighting director Ethan Weber, Woodroffe created a spectacular, multi-layered super-sharp design that worked in perfect synchronicity with the visually dramatic and evocative set, designed by Mark Fisher.

Aptly contemporary, the stage design was a clever take of the famous Stones tongue and lips logo. The strikingly architectural lighting design marked out the contours of the stage set from above and from stage level, giving dimension, shape and context to the set design while pulling the band out from the backdrop with striking effect and at the same time reaching out and embracing the excited audience, ensuring they were immer

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To mark the occasion the BBC staged a series of televised events and programming including a live concert by Madness outside the building (broadcast on BBC Four), a special 'outdoor' One Show on BBC One which linked live to the concert and a two hour documentary about the building where a host of stars shared their TV Centre memories.

ELP provided lighting for both outside broadcast events. The company already supplies lighting director Dave Evans for the daily (studio based) One Show broadcasts. For this outdoor special Evans specified a completely new rig which included: Arri Junior

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Ilumipanel 40 IP is a powerful interior/exterior fixture, designed as a mid-range wash light, suitablel for uplighting walls, and featuring a slim structure, which blends with the environment and fits in areas with tight tolerances. Ilumipanel 40 IP has 40 3-watt RGB LEDs and 30-degree lenses. Reliable in the harshest of environments, this wash light features an impact-resistant glass lens cover and a GORE® valve. The fixture's dimension

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14 March 2016

Kasabian's lighting designer Nick Gray from creative design practice Renegade decided to go 'all-out' to ensure that their show looked distinctive and memorable, with the installation of a floor based 'specials' package of over 90 lighting fixtures.

"Basically I took the entire lighting rig from or two warm-up dates in Doncaster and Plymouth . . . and added it to the festival style 'house' rig being supplied by PRG for the TCT shows," explains Gray.

He wanted to make a serious impact for TCT, "It's a high profile gig and I reckoned the show visuals should be imprinted on people's retinas . . . and

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Kenny, who has lit tours, events and TV shows for over 30 years worldwide, has designed tours for the likes of David Byrne, Santana, Juanes, Eric Clapton, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, David Bowie and of course The Who amongst many others. He says he used the Sharpys' effects to "sculpt the stage show and add drama, dimension and high impact architecture to the multi-media set."

Kenny says: "I love the Sharpys for their small size and speedy functionality. On the Who they gave a striking sharp beam and were especially effective when we're using no haze or smoke -they really cut through the extensive vi

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David Moffat joined Black Light at the end of 2012. He is a very experienced events projects manager, who has previously worked freelance all over the UK. "I worked with Black Light a lot during 2012 and it was a natural step to join the company," says Moffat, who is pleased with his first few months on the job. "We've just finished organizing the 30th Anniversary Open Day which was a great way to immerse myself in what the company is all about."

Paul de Luca started at Black Light in March of this year. He is part of the company's sales des

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The Philips team will be on stand to demo and discuss the 250ML, which is an evolution of the popular Strand series 200 console. It features four encoders and an LCD display screen for quick and easy automated lighting and LED control. Along with all the standard features found on a preset desk, the 250ML control console is ideal for smaller productions with a hybrid of lighting instruments.

"The 250ML was launched at PLASA last year and has proved an ideal lighting control solution for schools and colleges, multi-purpose venues and smaller theatres," comments Pete Borchetta, product marketing manager for Philips Entertainment.

"Since its launch we've had a great response from customers and end user

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Product highlights include Chroma-Q's new Inspire high output, RGBW colour-changing LED house light and AutoLED II ultra-bright (16,430 lumens) daylight white LED moving head fixture; LedGo's range of high-quality modular LED video panels; High End Systems' new flagship lighting console, the Road Hog 4; Jands' renowned Vista lighting console range and innovative new Stage CL console "made for LEDs"; and Columbus McKinnon's range of durable, reliable electric chain hoists. Other brands represented at the show on AC-ET's stand include Green Hippo, Spotlight, SGM and Se

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This year, on the Stage Electrics stand (RA-B18) there will be a range of audio, lighting, staging and video products that reflect the wide range of specialist equipment the company offers. New for 2013 will be a display of gas based special effects from MAGIC FX. These gas based confetti & streamer effects are an ideal solution for venues with a restricted use of traditional pyrotechnics.

New for lighting sees the introduction of the ilumo LED fixture by British manufacturer Lumonic. This clever and innovative solution which provides its users 12 high brightness RGBW OSRAM LEDs is ideal for lighting high definition broadcast, conferences and theatre. Other lighting featured on the stand includes Chauvet, Martin Professional, Philips, ETC, GDS

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Belgium based PIXLED has a wide portfolio and several full product ranges of indoor and outdoor LED screen solutions which are solid tile based as well as flexible creative products.

However, the focus at Frankfurt this year in particular will be PIXLED's highly creative LED strips and spheres

The FS-2425 is a strip product designed for fixed indoor installations, offering a 24mm pixel pitch, which is available in all possible lengths between a minimum of 4 pixels and a maximum of 64 pixels.

The strips are attached to an aluminium backbone with a single connector for data and power. The data and power cables are concealed in the backbone ensuring a neat appearance and an installation depth of only 1,8cm - making the p

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Although having already been in the market for the several months, this is actually the first international trade event in Europe where the production model LX600 and LX900 will be seen.

These consoles, as well as the LX300, feature version 2 of the Clarity software which is now common across all Clarity products including the PC and Mac software.

Also on the LMP booth, customers will be able to see and play with Clarity V2 software and VX-Wings, the MDR DMX Splitter range with optional RDM, the Nexus product family offering bi-directional Ethernet/DMX512 converters and the Redback Wallmount dimming solutions.

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City Theatrical's SHoW DMX is a popular wireless DMX for lighting professionals on Broadway and West End shows, permanent entertainment installations, architectural landmarks, major music tours such as U2 and Madonna, and large scale events such as the opening ceremonies of the London Olympics.

The newest members of the SHoW DMX family are the SHoW DMX D4 and SHoW DMX D2 dimmers. These are tiny devices (the size of a credit card and 14mm thick) designed for dimming LED tape. The SHoW DMX D4 Dimmer has four outputs with a total capacity of 10A with a maximum of 5A on any one channel. The D2 Dimmer has two outputs and also has a total capacity of 10A w

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MADRIX 3 is billed as a major breakthrough. The powerful yet easy-to-use LED control software introduces a lot of new features and cutting-edge elements for real 3D applications.

Above all, MADRIX is a unique pixel mapper that provides real-time effects. All visuals can be modified and combined to create new effects live and in a matter of seconds with an unprecedented level of customization.

MADRIX 3 takes this advantage to the next level: the third dimension. The software includes entirely new technologies that are completely different to the widely-known 3D projections or video mapping (so-called voxel mapping a

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The SolaWash 19 and SolaWash 37 are high brightness moving wash lights which will complement High End System's existing LED fixtures, the SolaSpot LED and Trackspot Bolt. Powered by 15W RGBW LEDs, as well as the addition of the deep hues provided by the company's Indigo Highlighter, these fast, compact and versatile fixtures are perfect for applications from rock and roll to theatre and corporate

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The experience and dedication of both Anna Zhang and Mary Ma have been recognised - with the former promoted to the important role of sales manager (for the Americas) and the latter to sales assistant supervisor.

Both are long-serving and loyal members of the successful sales team. Anna has been working with PR Lighting for the past seven years, developing through the ranks, first as sales assistant and sales supervisor, before being confirmed as sales manager.

Confirming the new appointment, sales director Ernie Armas said, "Anna's career development has been impressive over such a short amount of time; she is also the first to have reached the key position of overseeing sales in the most important territory, after starting in an entry level r

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14 March 2016

The W-DMX G4S software platform includes an improved adaptive frequency hopping algorithm that improves the plug and play use in crowded radio spectrum situations and better avoids interference from Wi-Fi, DECT Phones, Intercom and more. The adaptive frequency hopping technology has been granted a patent in the USA and patent pending in the EU.

G4S also has a new Invisi-Wire MK2 with support for wireless software updates, which will make it possible to perform wireless software updates to all your receivers, with an easy connection to your transmitters with all receivers updated at the same time.

Another new feature is W-DMX Slot In, a new module that makes it easy to retrofit for the market and is available for both transmitters and receivers.

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"For the kind of work I'm doing - a subtle piece with the lighting concentrating on moods, emotional states and times of day - I wanted lighting which doesn't draw attention to itself," says Fisher. "The Desire fixtures give a very nice, natural looking light, which was a pleasant surprise and a real advance." The best thing, from a lighting designer's point of view, Fisher explains, is that no one noticed the difference between the Desire LED and conventional fixtures in the hybrid lighting rig.

"I had been using conventionals on the show while it was on an initial f

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Taylor Swift was up for five awards but went home empty-handed. She performed with Keith Urban and Tim McGraw. Newcomer Hunter Hayes was nominated in six categories but also failed to win. He did get to perform with Motown legend Stevie Wonder on his new single I Want Crazy and a cover of Wonder's song Sir Duke.

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