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Neutrik will also present its multimedia product series which includes USB, HDMI and Firewire feedthrough chassis connectors, as well as locking USB and HDMI cable connectors - as usual in Neutrik quality, water-proof and extremely robust.

Also on show will be the HD version of the IP67-rated XX series which is totally dust-proof and protected against the effect of immersion between 15cm and 1m in mated condition.

Next up, Neutrik's Trouble Shooters range aims to avoid the

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GE Lighting's highest power, white LED yet, the Vio 7.2, also available in 1.2W and 3.6W, provides has light outputs of up to 350 lumens. Receiving the award, GE Lighting's product manager for solid state lighting, Andy Davies, said, "We are thrilled that the Vio has been recognised as best in class at the Lighting Design Awards. This prestigious award demonstrates that the Vio truly is the best available high power LED on the market and is valuable recognition of GE's commitment to bringing innovative top quality products to market."

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WiCOS, short for Wireless Conference System, features automatic dynamic frequency management with two frequency ranges (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), for wireless transmission, and automatically switches the range if it detects interference on its wireless frequencies. This means that WiCOS can be operated much more reliably than conventional wireless conference systems, says the company.

"A conference system has to operate with absolute reliability," explained Jens Werner, product manager for conference and information systems at Sennheiser. "For that reason, in addition to the usual 2.4 GHz range, which is often subject to interference from Bluetooth transmitters and WLANs, WiCOS uses the range from 5.1 to 5.8 GHz for its transmissi

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The new LED-Pixel system includes a number of different items of furniture and was exhibited for the first time at The Event Show, London and at the World of Event Show in Germany.

According to LED Factory, the main unique features are: "Most advanced rechargeable Lithium ION batteries; Remote controlled via hand or DMX transmitter; Highly efficient RGBW (Red/Green/Blue/White) LED light sources; Pixel design (each 1m strip consists of 8 individually controllable LED segments); Over 10 integrated light effects similar to sophisticated LED moving heads / stage systems"

LED-Factory is one of the first companies in the world providing a whole range of high end mobile LED-systems or c

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It is an actively driven two-way bass-reflex design housing three long excursion neodymium 21" drivers of which two face to the front while the other radiates to the rear of the cabinet. The two forward facing drivers are housed together in a bass reflex chamber and are driven from a single channel of the D12 amplifier. The backward facing driver is in a second chamber and is driven by the other D12 channel.

Through this driver setup its cardioid dispersion pattern avoids unwanted energy behind the system and greatly reduces the reverberant fiel

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Incorporating constant curvature line array design principles, JFL210 modules form easily configured arrays with predictable output and coherence, and coverage that is both horizontally symmetric and consistent from short to long throws, say EAW. The JFL210 can be flown or stacked in a variety of ways, and the enclosure size, shape, weight and rigging are optimized for ease of transport and handling. Arrays may be easily flown or ground

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The LED battery powered uplighters are completely cable free and entirely battery powered, thus allowing complete freedom of use, whatever the venue or event. They have a generous 24 hour running cycle in colour changing mode and only take six hours to recharge.

Liteware's LED uplighters offer full RGB colour mixing and wireless DMX control with a light output is similar to a Pixelpar. They have 50 preset colours (Lee and Rosco), 20 built in fades and snaps and a 16 bit dimmer curve for smooth fade effects.

Hawthorn's stainless steel LED uplighters are flight cased in groups of six and all the flight cases are pre-wired so the fittings are easily recharged by just plugging in the flight case, making it very easy to recharge the units o

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Visitors will be able to tryout this platform-independent piece of software lighting control on either a Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows. Cuelux is a DMX512 lighting controller for intelligent lights, LED, dimmers, lasers and various other effects; it is shipped with a USB-to-DMX adapter cable.

Key to the design of Cuelux is its graphical user-interface. It is specially designed to reduce the amount of time required to learn how to operate the software.

Alongside this new product Visual Productions continues to develop itsother products and will also be displaying the Duple: a USB to DMX-512 dual output and input hardware interface. The Duple enables both VisualDMX and Canvix lighting control softwares to send and receive DMX.

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In the more than three years since its first introduction, FocusTrack has been put to use on countless shows, allowing lighting designers and their teams to precisely document the show lighting - including focus of conventional and moving lights, cue looks, rig data and more- to allow them to maintain the look over a long run, bring the show back into rep, re-focus it on tour or re-create it elsewhere in the world. FocusTrack is currently in use on shows including Billy Elliot in London, New York and Australia, Mary Poppins in New York and on tour, Frost/Nixon and The Wizard of Oz touring the US, and Miss

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The concept behind the Redback project was to produce a feature rich, high quality reliable dimmer in a small compact footprint at a very affordable price, says the company. After extensive development and product testing, LSC is confident that they have delivered these objectives. The Redback range is designed for mass manufacture resulting in a reduced overall build price and hence sale price, without compromising quality.

The Redback 12-channel dimmer is fully compliant with the new RDM (Remote Device Management) protocol, allowing remote configuration from any RDM compatible controller. This new functionality will also soon be available as a free software up

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TOA's VM-3000 Series is a highly cost-effective combined emergency voice alarm system and public address system. The VM-3000 Series is ideal for small and medium-sized applications, such as shopping centres, retail stores, nursing homes, schools and fitness clubs. It incorporates such emergency voice alarm functions as continuous speaker line monitoring and a built-in voice alarm.

This easy to install and set-up, all-in-one system also offers PA broadcasting, paging and BGM functions that operate with uncompromisingly high audio quality to ensure consistently high intelligibility, say TOA Corporation UK.

The VM-3000 Series is digitally audio processed and controll

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Rigging Europe is a new company formed from a partnership between two of Europe's most experienced and well respected sales companies - Louis Reyners from the Netherlands and Sonoss from France. Conceived as a one-stop rigging supplier, RE works all over Europe embracing multiple entertainment industry sectors - concert touring, theatre, film and TV, corporate and special events and installations and venues of all types - distributing a full range of the highest quality rigging and automation products from leading international brands.

The Evo is the new precision variable speed chain ho

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Turbosound will be showing its TCS series sound contracting products, and its Flex Array system in both flown and ground-stacked configurations.

The TCS series is a complete range of installation products ranging from a large-format double 18" subwoofer and two single 15" arrayable subs, through 12" and 15" active/passive two-way mid-highs to an ultra-compact 6.5" passive model. Turbosound has also developed a high power three-way switchable bi-amp / tri-amp loudspeaker to provide contractors with a full complement of solutions, rounded out with a ceiling speaker for background sound applications.

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The shape of the Nest 106, with a front panel in the shape of a partial sphere and the back in the shape of a triangular pyramid, permits a wide variety of potential installations, ranging from an individual sound box fitting perfectly in a corner to several units to make portions of a sphere or even a complete sphere. Additionally, the grille of the Nest106 can easily be painted as required.

The Nest 106 can operate at 8 ohms or at 100W in 7, 10, 15 or 30W power mode, and features Euroblock connection, accessories for wall mount and IP54 for outdoor installation.

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IRIS-Net V2.0 also brings FIR-Drive technology front and centre. EV's FIR-Drive combines transducer development, FIR processing, and optimised DSP protection algorithms to create a holistic approach to system development. IRIS-Net V2.0 provides additional FIR-Drive controllers, a new Peak Anticipation limiter, and new speaker settings for EV concert sound products to take sound and performance to a whole new level, says the company.

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Launched at the beginning of the year, the Luminex Ethernet-DMX4 MkII is a 4 way ArtNet node that comes with 4 shielded and fully isolated DMX inputs/ouputs, plus all the well known features of the Ethernet-DMX range firmware. The unit can be managed through its front panel, through its built in web site, or through the new LumiNet Monitor V2 software. "The Ethernet-DMX4 MkII offers the reliability and flexibility of Luminex product in a very affordable way."

Visitors will find the company's product range on Focon's booth (Hall 9 - A40), and can visit staff on the Sonoss booth (Hall 9 E86).

(Claire Beeson)

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LR7 is a micro-sized line-array system, designed to be used in stacked or flown configuration, for both portable and permanent installations. With a width of 3 CD's and a height of 1,5 CD's, the LR7 is suitable for A/V projects, where very compact form factor with perfect line-array throw and imaging are required.

In what has become a regular feature on its ProLight + Sound stand, Alcons will exhibit a new 'design study', providing a glimpse of its R+D activities by displaying assembled prototype developments, some of which may be applied to future products.

To enable visitors to get an idea of the quality performance of Alcons sound systems, low-SPL demo's will take place on the stand, with the VR8 compact monitor

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The MSR Gold 2500/2 FastFit lamp enlarges the series of higher wattage discharge lamps. This new high wattage FastFit lamp concept has an arc size of 9.5 mm and an efficacy of 77 lm/W.

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The SUB 212 is designed to be an integral part of the monitoring system, enabling a studio monitor, such as the SAT 8, to be positioned for the best imaging, and the SUB to be positioned for the best bass response, says the company.

"Our customers were asking for a powerful system that was similar to the Sat 12 and Sub 15, but in a smaller package," said Blue Sky vice-president Chris Fichera. "The Sat 8 and Sub 212 will address those applications."

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"We have a brilliant brand in Fiberlink with excellent industry-wide recognition," states Derek Miranda, director of marketing. "Our customers have always referred to each of our fibre optic offerings as Fiberlink. It was time to strengthen our connection to our customers through a strong, homogenous and recognizable brand."

"There was a time when it was very important to clearly differentiate the two core fibre optic technologies that we provided to our customers, digital and analog, because we have always been at the forefront of the technology," says John Lopinto, president and CEO. "Now that digital fibre optic technology has become the foundation for all of our fibre optic

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The W-DMX UglyBox which can be attached to a belt with its built-in lanyard connector, measures the presence of DMX, the signal strength, and even a signal strength history monitor to gauge signal stability. The unit is built for rugged conditions and is adaptable for any W-DMX antenna, says the company.

The W-DMX ToolBox Pro with Dongle is Co-Existence software with an antenna calculation tool. The software ensures that the co-existence of multiple wireless protocols remain in harmony.

The BlackBox S-2000, a double universe transmitter, a 19" 1U Rack unit is prepared for ACN Lite, ETC-NET and Strand ShowN

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Included in the release is an enhanced Jands Vista and Vista PC connection using Art-Net. This connection allows user to connect and operate both Vista PC and LD Assistant 08.5 on the same computer, without needing any dongles.

Other new features include Save Views in any of the three Simulators for quick return, named views support, more moving light profiles, gobos, textures

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Each DS8 motion controller can control up to eight direct or low voltage control chain hoists, and features a Solid State MCB per individual motor/channel plus adjustable maximum power output up to 9 Amps. The highest level of safety and protection is provided by the PL D, ISO 13849-1 and SIL2 compliant Emergency Stop System.

The DS8 Series is available in two types - for direct control and for low voltage control chain motors. Each type also comes in a choice of two versions. The 'Pro' version provides full hoist control for all typical professional rigging applications. The 'Pro Plus'

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"All of TOA's PA/VA systems have fireman's microphone options, and are easy to integrate with fire detection systems," says Brett Downing, sales & marketing director, TOA Europe. "That makes International Firex the perfect place to demonstrate not just the technology inside our products, but the way in which they make life simpler for installers and end-users alike."

Among the highlights on TOA's Firex stand will be the new VM-3000 PA/VA system, designed as a cost-effective solution fo