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UK - Following the success of Pro Display's LCD Projection Glass Technology, the company has developed a new LCD projection film which can be applied to any existing glass or Plexiglas.

"A revolutionary new product which will transform the world of visual display and advertising", according to the company, this film consists of a liquid crystal polymer which can change its visual appearance when an electrical current is activated. The edge of the film has an electrical contact strip which transforms the film from clear (transparent) to frosted (translucent) using a simple On/Off switch.

When the film is in its translucent or frosted state, images can be projected onto the glass creating a high definition digital display screen (up to UXGA resolution). Other applications for the LCD Film include privacy and security.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - PID has enjoyed a busy year including moving to bigger premises in west London and launching a new web-site along with supplying digital media products like Catalyst, Pixel MAD and Versa TUBE to various live entertainment sectors. The company's client base is also diversifying into architectural installations for both retail and commercial projects.

At PLASA 2005 PID will feature Element Labs' Versa TILE and Versa TUBE products from their ever-increasing range of LED-based video input display technology. These will be controlled from a Pixel MAD system which allows the playback of low-res video across LED or DMX fixtures.

The latest Catalyst software will be displayed, running on both Apple Powerbook and G5 platforms illustrating the many cost-effective options now available for this video-optimised digital media system.

PID will also highlight the latest D-Tek products

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UK - Le Mark, winners to date of five PLASA Show product awards, has now been appointed the UK's exclusive distributor for Austria's premier portable show, stage and dance floor company Tüchler GmbH and will be launching the range to the UK at the PLASA Show (11 -14 September, Earls Court, London).

Le Mark has worked closely with the family-owned business for many years. Product synergy between Le Mark's own StudioTak 'peel clean' TV flooring and the Austrian dance and show floor has seen steady growth in Central and Eastern Europe. Christoph Lach, managing director of Tüchler GmbH, joins the Le Mark team to offer full application advice throughout the show. Mark Gibbons will take on the challenge of product development manager following the PLASA show launch.

Le Mark will also exhibit its own range of high performance, self-adhesive single- and double-sided 'clean' fix and

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USA - Apollo Design Technology Inc has introduced Apollo Gel in 24" x 24" sheets in order to provide a simple solution to an ongoing problem, say the company. Unused gel left after cutting a 20"x 24" sheet into the most popular frame sizes is wasted: the 24"x 24" Apollo Gel sheets mean less waste The company's labour-saving PerfGel is also available on 24" x 24" sheets.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - ETC officially launches its powerful Congo lighting-control console at PLASA 2005. Sneak-previewed at last year's PLASA and now shipping worldwide, Congo offers seamless integration of conventional and moving light control, say the company. The first system to combine ETC and Avab expertise and engineering, Congo earned its stripes at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, where four final beta test boards controlled hundreds of automated and conventional luminaires, 16 media servers, 15,000 channels of lighting effects and 37 universes of DMX. Since then it has found favour throughout Europe, being ordered by and installed in theatres, TV studios and multi-purpose venues alike.

Also new is ETC's IES Matrix Mk II sine wave dimming system, bringing higher density, improved efficiency and an extended choice of channel ratings to the highly successful and reliable Matrix standard.

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USA - American DJ has introduced the Accu Spot 250 II. An upgraded version of its Accu Spot 250 automated moving head, the Accu Spot 250 II has a number of new features that make controlling a light show easier, including Remote DMX Addressing (RDMX), say the company. The new RDMX feature gives users the ability to change the Accu Spot 250 II's DMX values remotely, from any DMX console.

Other features include an improved 4-button menu system that makes accessing and navigating the menu an easier and clearer process. A new glass gobo has also been added to the unit, so that it now comes equipped with two glass gobos instead of one (out of a total of seven gobos plus spot). The dimming function on the Accu Spot 250 II has also been made smoother, say ADJ. Users now have the option to run the unit in 8-channel or 9-channel DMX, with the added channel being an independent dimmer. Th

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The Netherlands / UK - At this year's PLASA show, Dutch manufacturer Alcons will show a number of new product range additions and highlights of the current line-up. Still a prototype at last year's PLASA, this year the production model of the LR14, Alcons' ultra-compact line-array module, will be on show. Featuring the patented RBN401 pro-ribbon driver and double 6.5" woofers with a dispersion pattern of 120° x 15°, the LR14 is designed as either ultra-compact line-array system, or as under-fill of the LR16.

The ultra-compact line-array range is complemented with the LR14B - the ultra-compact/light-weight high-output bass module of the LR14 line-array, with double Neodymium 12" in double-tuned band-pass configuration. The LR14B combines a very low weight with very high specific SPL output, making the LR14B an excellent low-frequency extension in both stacked and flow

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UK - Turbosound, the British-based manufacturer of live performance and installed-sound loudspeakers, has introduced a new addition to its range of low-frequency options. Already field-proven at numerous summer festivals and events across Europe, the large-format TSW-218 is a 2 x 18" Turbo-loaded sub-bass enclosure, capable of delivering very high SPLs, say the company.

It has been specifically designed to complement Turbosound's Aspect series, as well as the larger models in the QLight range, and its first projects have included high-energy, low-frequency duties at this year's Glastonbury Festival, Denmark's Roskilde and Skanderborg Festivals, plus London's Big Gay Out.

Configured to provide dynamic and accurate low-frequency performance at very high levels, the Turbosound TSW-218 sub-bass system is a double 18" modular coupling-horn enclosure, which benefits from a

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Canada - Cast Software launched WYSIWYG Release 14 featuring multiple streaming video display capabilities, plus many more feature updates, including speed efficiencies found primarily in the CAD engine and shaded views.

"WYSIWYG has been the indisputable leader in lighting design software for the past decade. Over this period, we've listened to the needs of our users and strived to provide dynamic software solutions. The introduction of Streaming Video in Release 14 will give them the opportunity to bring live or pre-recorded video streams into WYSIWYG and play them back while creating looks in Design mode or pre-cueing in Live mode," says Gilray Densham, president and CEO of Cast Software.

Other new features that have been implemented include a cross-fading function giving users the ability to see a timed transition between any two stored looks in Design mode. Desi

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UK - Litec will be present at this year's PLASA show with lots of new products in both the trussing and rigging areas.

Libera 105 is the latest product in the well known and innovative roofing, grid and truss system line, say the company. It will be officially on show at PLASA for the first time. This truss has countless applications which have already been appreciated by many professionals during the events and festivals which took place this summer in several European countries, including Live 8, MTV Music Island and the 50th L'Oreal Colour Trophy awards in London.

The latest Litec products in the Ground Support Tower sector will also be on show, including the entirely aluminium Varitower 2, the now well-known Unitower complete with accessories, and the new square twist-resistant truss QL76 for building towers.

This year's show will also see the first official presentation

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UK - Event branding specialist Sunbaba will unveil its new 'Digital Austronet' air permeable fabric, at the Showman's Show this year. Sunbaba has been the sole UK supplier for Austronet fabrics since 1996, however the printing process has now been perfected to allow for digital printing, having been under development for the last two years in conjunction with the company's colleagues in Austria.

The new 'Digital Austronet' has been developed for customers who want to create large format, full colour, digitally printed displays on air permeable fabric (suitable for outdoor environments). Being a polyethylene based material, the product offers a more eco-friendly alternative to the traditional PVC based products.

This is the seventh year the company will exhibit at the Showman's Show and this year the company plan to reveal its new corporate image, literature and website.

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UK - Steve Hoffman, director of sales for Gamproducts Inc of Los Angeles, California has announced the introduction of two new SX4 gobo changer trays. "Designers now have the ability to effortlessly project multiple gobo pattern images from just one lighting instrument, saving power and space," says Hoffman.

The SX4 B size gobo changer tray holds four B size metal or glass gobos and the M size gobo changer tray holds six metal or glass M size gobos. "Changing gobo direction is simply done using the onboard stand alone program modes, or to create your own custom gobo changes you can use any DMX-controlled lighting board," says Hoffman.

The SX4 was built for the rugged demands and duty cycles of the architectural, retail, display, and theme park markets.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - HSL Group Holdings is exhibiting at PLASA 2005 for the first time in its own right, highlighting a diverse range of products and services.

The Blackburn-based company has three divisions - HSL Rental, HSL Rigging and HSL Sales and Distribution. In addition to illustrating its own products and projects, HSL is joined on its stand by some key suppliers, including Rope Assemblies and Radical Lighting. The latter will be demonstrating the latest version of their NG1 digital media server.

HSL will be showing several new products designed in-house. These include the 500Kg DMX mirror ball rotator, the DMX controlled Snow Dropper and a range of Check-IT plugs and sockets.

Highlighted at the show is HSL's own brand of PA/delay tower system - the Totem Tower 2T-V - capable of lifting loads up to two tonnes. The 2T-V tower is suitable for hanging all types of PA either from a one

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Italy - Ribalta from Italian manufacturer SGM is a colour-changing projector utilizing 90 Luxeon LEDs to provide colour washes over large areas such as walls, theatre and television backdrops, and architectural elements. The IP65-rated unit is suited to both indoor and outdoor use.

Other features include RGB colour mixing, high-power Luxeon LEDs 30 blue (1W), 30 green (3W), 30 red (1W); Luminous flux 3,000 Lumens; Colour temperature: 5,500°K (variable); interchangeable lenses - 8° asymmetric, 30° asymmetric, 10°x 90° (elliptical) horizontal and vertical; pan: +/- 45° and tilt: +15° / -70°.

(Lee Baldock)

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Sweden / UK - Wireless Solution Sweden AB, the producer of the award-winning W-DMX product at PLASA 2004, is again entering the PLASA Awards for Innovation with the new W-DMX IP65 Repeater - "a new and innovative product in the W-DMX family that brings the wireless technology for lighting one step further", say the company. The repeater solves a lot of problems for productions and installation companies, for example differences with very long distances or physical obstacles, the company claims, as it supports a distance up to 20km between each repeater.

Wireless Solution Sweden is also showing the W-DMX IP65 Transceiver, which supports RDM. All W-DMX products offer talk-back function, and the plug and play solution can be set up in less then 60 seconds, the company says. W-DMX follows the standard of ETSI and FCC to cover the European and the North American market.

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UK - Entertainment lighting supplier White Light will be at the PLASA Show once again this year, showing new products from many of the companies for which it is the exclusive UK distributor as well as its own Digital Festoon System, a winner of a PLASA Award For Innovation at last year's show.

In order to demonstrate its full potential, the Digital Festoon System - a radical re-think of conventional festoon lighting that allows each lamp along a festoon's length to be individually dimmed without the aid of external dimmers - will be put through its paces in a two square metre demonstration rig featuring a 27 x 27 square grid of bulbs - 729 in total. The arrangement will show some of the many dramatic possibilities offered by what, at first glance, appears to be just a collection of light bulbs.

Alongside DFS, White Light will be showing the new White Light/ETC Smart Touring Ra

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UK - The new wall-mounted, compact lighting controller from Artistic Licence simplifies customized performance and venue lighting. Artistic Licence's new 'Dimmer-Switch' joins 'Light-Switch' as part of a new range of Wall Mount DMX Controllers.

'Dimmer-Switch' provides the ideal solution for varied lighting requirement in pubs, clubs, conference rooms, retail outlets, trade shows, museum exhibits and domestic environments. Six independent LED illuminated faders are capable of playing back a static look or a dynamic sequence with the seventh 'Grand Master' fader providing overall intensity control.

The output is DMX512 with control over all 512 channels. Housed in a two-gang wall mount panel, Dimmer-Switch has all its electronic components mounted on the rear panel so there's no need for bulky or cumbersome external control boxes. The entire system can be programmed in two ways

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UK - Lightfactor Sales will be showing a variety of its core theatre and performance orientated products available from Italian manufacturers SGM and LDR; Wireless Solutions from Sweden; Xilver from the Netherlands and LightProcessor from the UK at PLASA 2005.

Designed and built by SGM, Synthesis is the first of a new generation of moving head fixtures from SGM. Featuring two types of interchangeable 700W lamps, with automatic hot re-strike, colour mixing, precise linear dimmer, automatic electronic pan/tilt unlocking and silent operation. Synthesis achieves exceptional brightness, and is the world's first moving head fixture fitted with wireless DMX as standard and using technology with an operating radius of over 500m.

Other SGM products on display will be the Palco LED colour-changer and the Regia Lighting Desks including the new Desk Pilot 3000.

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UK - Marquee Audio - AuviTran's UK distributor - will be showing a complete range of the EtherSound products by AuviTran on its stand at the PLASA Show this year. AVRed-ES, AVKit-ES and the AVBridge32-ES will join AVY16-ES cards that have found homes in a variety of Yamaha equipment on display.

"AuviTran had a very exciting and productive year. As a Digigram Authorised Implementor, we had been very busy with services we have offered to other ES licensees [A&H, Archean, Camcmo, DiGiCo, InnovaSON, Nexo and Martin Audio]" said AuviTran's business development director, Wlodek Sielski. "Being able, at the same time, to design and develop our own unique EtherSound products, is something we are very proud of."

AVRed-ES secures an EtherSound connection with two redundant links A/B as well as automatic real time measurement of communication quality and four samples

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UK - Beyma will be present at the PLASA trade fair through its distributor Miltec Ltd., on stand K64.

This year Beyma has centred its work on renewing its range of coaxial loud speakers, as well as continuing to develop models to enable the design of compact and efficient Line Arrays. Beyma's coaxial family was the last family in the Pro range which remained to be improved, after the intense and deep renovation that has taken place in its general catalogue over the past two years.

Two new series within the coaxial family were born: the XA series, which substituted the well-known KX series, and the XC series. The 12XA30/Nd and 15XA38/Nd are specially designed to provide an extremely flat response with a wide dispersion (80%) and high sensitivity (98 and dB at LF and 105 dB at HF). They include 4" coils of flat aluminium wire for considerable power management (700W Program)

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UK - ELC Lighting will introduce its new Switch5DC at PLASA. This latest member of the dmXLAN family will, the company says, mark the difference between a "compustore" switch and a professional tool for the touring industry. The unit features a truss-mount/table top housing with built-in M10 nut and safety eye; four powered 10/100BaseT ports on Neutrik Ethercon connectors; PoE (Power on Ethernet) IEEE 802.3af with auto-detection, for powering Node 1 and Node 2; 1 x 10/100BaseT uplink port on Neutrik Ethercon, and AC power - switching PSU 85 to 264 Volts with fixed mains lead.

The company has also announced the latest software kit for the Sidekick, which contains not only the last firmware - fader10_v102.sfu - but also upgraded configurations files for Martin Light Jockey, Hog 2 and Hog PC, Sunlite and Cybercontrol. ELC Lighting can be found on the stand of oits UK dist

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UK - Pharos Architectural Controls has announced that the Lighting Playback Controller (LPC) is now shipping. The award-winning LPC bridges the gap between entertainment and architectural lighting in retail, themed or architectural environments, say its makers. A powerful, solid-state lighting controller, the LPC is very compact and supports many different interfaces including Ethernet. The LPC comes in variants with one or two DMX ports; both models are now in stock and available from distributor TMB.

Version 1.0 of the powerful and intuitive Designer software has also been officially released for the Windows platform and is free to download from http://www.pharoscontrols.com/software.html. The Designer software has been available for beta testing and evaluation for several months and has been very well received. New features include support for the LPC1 and LPC2 over USB or Et

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UK - K.M.E will be showing its newest innovations at PLASA 2005. This year's highlights say the company are its; Line Array, Remote Control Module V.2.0 and Individualized PA systems CA 4 and CA 8.

As an innovation in the fields of installation and system integration in networks K.M.E. will show the follow-up of the TCP/IP remote control module, the RCM V2.0 an optional accessory for active speakers QSA 200 and QSA 500 D. Improvements and new features have been developed for the RCM V2.0 with both, hardware and software reengineered extensively.

The hardware part was completed by a PowerOverEthernet circuit, which gives the user a redundant power supply for maximum safety within the installation. An automatic speaker impedance control system was included to complete the remote diagnosis feature. An integrated three-port Ethernet switch minimizes cabling complexity and the need

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UK - RCF has introduced its new MQ50C, a compact designed, limited depth, lightweight ceiling speaker. This two-way ceiling monitor loudspeaker is ideal for use in any PA system, background/foreground music systems, where high quality sound reproduction is required says the company. The woofer is a high-excursion, PP coated paper -cone rubber surround design, mounted in a turned enclosure.

The fabric dome tweeter is loaded on a constant Q wave guide to provide natural, smooth sound reproduction on a wide dispersion angle.

Installation of the MQ50C is fast and efficient, using the built in rotating hooks. No additional brackets or rings or other supports are required. Because of its lightweight construction the speaker can be mounted as a conventional ceiling speaker.

Connections are made to four polar loop s through Euroblock male and female connectors to easily offer parall

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