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These self-powered, compact and light-weight systems are suitable for multi-purpose applications, particularly for live events.

DVS 8 SP is equipped with a new eight-inch mid-woofer combined with a compression driver with a one-inch diaphragm and ensures a sound pressure level of 123 dB (peak @ 1 metre). DVS 10 SP is fitted with a 10" woofer combined with a compression driver with a 1.75" diaphragm and ensures a sound pressure level of 127.5 dB. In spite of their dimensions, both models guarantee surprising headroom with an extremely low distortion level.

The shape of the cabinets in the new DVS series enables them to be used as stage monitors at two angles (25° or 45°). There are also new user-friendly handle

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"VLZ is synonymous with high-headroom and low-noise," remarked John Boudreau, music gear group VP, Loud Technologies. "We are psyched to bring VLZ3 performance to mixers with higher channel count and real-world live sound tools like effects processing, channel compression and USB connectivity."

The Mackie 2404-VLZ3 and 3204-VLZ3 feature low-noise, high-headroom XDR2 mic channels (20 and 28, respectively) and two dedicated channels for stereo inputs. Inline compression is available on each of the four subgroups and on four select channels. Dual 32-bit RMFX effects processors offer 16 presets, including tap delay. The integrated 4x2

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Watchout version 4.2, shown for the first time at InfoComm, promises more flexibility, remote control, scheduling and enhanced interfaces for complex and high-impact multimedia demonstrations.

Michael Engström, director of sales at Dataton, explains, "Partners and visitors attending the show are invited not only to see the latest technology on the Dataton booth but also to register for hourly booth demonstrations highlighting how Watchout can be used in the real-life working environment.

"The deployment of Watchout in ground-breaking projects such as the Comcast Experience and the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai shows that our technology is trusted to work at the highest level, and InfoComm attendees will not be disappointed by what t

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HD Pro Audio has chosen ABTT to announce its appointment as an L-Acoustics Certified Provider, and to show a range of the company's sound reinforcement products. Commenting for HD Pro Audio, Andy Huffer said, "L-Acoustics universal system approach is designed to provide clients with complete solutions at the highest, most predictable level of performance. This is backed by its network of Certified Providers, ensuring technical support, user education and sound design, and we're very pleased be joining this network."

This year's Ateis focus will be on their advanced Stag

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Spread across three booths, Martin US will also have on the show floor its Brighter World road show trailer, which is half way through a successful 30-city national education tour that is exposing lighting professionals to the latest Martin gear through local on-site presentations.

The EC series represents the new generation of indoor and outdoor LED screens and combines the image quality and precision of conventional high resolution screens (20 mm pixel pitch) with the creativity and low weight of mesh type screens. The EC-20 is designed for rapid setup and teardown in combination with maximum flexibility and easy serviceability.

The LC Plus is a modular system of semi-transparent LED video panels (40 mm pixel pitch) with new generat

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"Mackie is well known for bringing high end pro audio technology into the hands, and budgets, of customers who would otherwise not be able to bridge the monetary gap," said Ben Olswang, Mackie brand product manager. "Our partnerships allow us to integrate technology that is simply not possible for other companies."

Each HDA module delivers 1200W of peak system power and houses an EAW designed 12" LF driver and dual Beyma 1.7" HF compression drivers, mounted into a multi-cell horn. HDA incorporates Mackie's high-defin

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The newest additions to the JF Series of two-way loudspeakers include JF8, JF10, JF26, JF29, JF56 and JF59. New comprehensively integrated JFNT units include JF26NT, JF29NT, JF56NT and JF59NT.

The JF models include low-directivity eight-inch and 10-inch systems and four 12-inch and 15-inch systems (60-degree x 45-degree and 90-degree x 45-degree versions of both sizes are available).

The four JFNT models (comprehensively integrat

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"Systems integrators and programmers have long been using Barix IP audio and control products for projects requiring the transport of voice, audio and data from one to many points in a single venue or across a large space or campus," said Johannes G. Rietschel, CEO and founder of Barix AG. "InfoComm is an ideal time to showcase our latest innovations for the integration audience as well as for end users who prefer to program and build out their own systems for use in entertainment venues, educational facilities, churches and corporate buildings among other settings."

The Exstreamer 120 IP audio decoder will make its public debut, serving as the end decode/receive link for high

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MIP HD is a new Medialon compact player able to playback both multimedia content such as Flash, Html, Jpeg and even URLs as well as 1080p HD video. Interactive media such as Flash keep their interactivity if needed.

Its built-in web server provides web user interface to remotely upload media, to build up playlists and to schedule and retrieve log files.

The Sync Video mode allows synchronization of unlimited number of HD video playback via the network.

It can either operate autonomously or be slaved of a Medialon Control System making it suitable for for museums as well as digital signage applications.

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Known for its popular WET and R-Series, Community is now bringing its weather resistance to iBOX, a high performance traditional loudspeaker series. All iHP1200, iHP1500 and iHP3500 series models will be available in a weather-resistant finish beginning in June of 2010.

"Community has been a proven leader in outdoor and stadium sound for many years," said Julia Lee, Community's Direcdor of marketing and sales. "We're pleased to expand our all-weather offering with the new weather-resistant iBOX series, bringing the same all-weather features to a more traditional loudspeaker design, the way that only Community can do it, as requested by our customers."

The new weather-resistant iBOX serie

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For the first time, dnp denmark will display a curved Supernova Infinity Screen. Dubbed the Supernova Infinity Arc, this massive screen has a height of 7ft (2.1m) and a radius of 40ft (12.2m). "This concept screen provides a glimpse into the future of what the capabilities are with the Supernova Infinity Arc," says dnp's product manager, Johnny Jensen. "As far as applications are concerned, we developed the Supernova Infinity Arc to become the ultimate large-format, front projection, control room and simulation screen."

Digital Projection will use five Titan WUXGA 700 projectors. Warp and blend will be provided by DPI's new Fusion MD processors. The source will be a five-channel Watch

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Dirk Kast, general manager for Elation Europe, comments, "Customers have been asking for wider diffused LED lighting fixtures without losing a lot of output, and our new Lighting Shaping Filters provide an easy, cost-efficient way to attain this. Using one of these filters, you can widen the beam of a narrow beam angle LED par like our Opti Tri 30 and convert it into a fixture suitable for a stage or wall wash."

Elation Light Shaping Filters have been designed to preserve as much power as possible while dispersing light. The Elation products provide up to 92% li

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The quick roll-out design enables "ultra fast installation/breakdown with minimal labour", and the 2300 Nit light output delivers mega-bright, high-impact, full-colour video images, says the company.

The high transparency factor enables video and lighting effects to be layered, as the surface becomes near invisible with lights shining through from behind.

The product is robustly engineered and has been developed to extend the already extensive Pixled range which is popular for music concerts, trade and fashion shows, product launches and presentations of all types as well as theme parks, visitor attractions and other permanent installations.

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The Mobile Showroom presents a survey of Wybron's stable of products, including the new Cygnus LED Wash Light, in a environment more intimate than a trade show. "The challenge of this industry is to actually get information to the people who will benefit from it," said Wybron, Inc. CEO Keny Whitright. "A trade show is terrific, sure, but you're often lacking time to connect with all the folks you would like to."

The Mobile Showroom will continue with nearly two years of planned stops across North America, with the next being in Massachusetts and the Boston areas.

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The latest addition to Allen & Heath's range of digital consoles gets its UK launch. The iDR-64 is a large, fixed I/O version of the iLive MixRack and is able to work with the same firmware as the other products in the range. It will be on display alongside the recently introduced iLive-R72 controller and the iDR-16.

Yamaha Commercial Audio is to show an Ethersound version of its M7CL digital mixing des

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For the first time after its premiere at the Frankfurt show, the BC543 cardioid subwoofer will be on the stand at ABTT. This self-contained triple 18" subwoofer enables cardioid pattern control, when driven by the Digital Drive Processor in the ALC amplified loudspeaker controller.

Making inroads in the theatre market, the LR7 micro line-array system which received acclaim in different international reviews and tests, will be on the stand, together with the LR7Bass system.

For point source system, the traditional way of reinforcing theatre sound, Alcons will have the VR8 compact monitor on display, as well as the SR9 front-fill, both two-way passive systems, featuring a 4" pro-ribbon HF driver.

The third theatre sound philosophy Alco

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The PowerChiton, with its IP66 protection classification, is billed as "a practically bomb-proof amplifier-in-a-shell". The IP66 rating confirms ingress protection (IP) for persons (such as electrical safety) and equipment (dust, dirt and water penetration). The latter makes PowerChiton amplifiers suitable for outdoor installations for protection against the elements. Its low-profile, modular design also gives systems designers and integrators the freedom and flexibility to place the amplifiers closer to the loudspeaker (including

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Externally the first model, HyLight150, is a compact, wheeled flight-case, rugged for transportation and easy to deploy where required. Internally, it contains the new Hymera hydrogen fuel cell generator and two new lightweight hydrogen gas cylinders, both from global industrial gas supplier BOC; a choice of low energy LED lighting systems suitable for architectural, live event or safety applications completes the system.

White Light's HyLight150 packages will include either four Pulsar ChromaFlood fixtures, with wireless DMX remote control if required - suitable for creating stunning outdoor lighti

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Built to MilTec's own specification, the MTA range gives professional sound quality for venues and rental companies operating on a tight budget.

Also on display will be the new StageWash144 LED wash. Suitable for both stage and architectural use, (IP65 rated), it has 48x 3W RGBW LEDs, giving a powerful beam with pastel colours and excellent colour mixing even at short range,l says the company.

Another new addition to the MilTec catalogue is the LEDHead moving head LED profile.

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The series is particularly geared toward medium-to-large-sized spaces including sports arenas but is also designed for a wide range of other venues requiring high power and consistent coverage in a compact housing, including houses of worship, outdoor stadiums, performing arts venues, theatres and clubs.

The passive, wired-for-biamplification QX Series draws on the knowledge and engineering resources gained through the development of EAW's AX Series, maintaining its reputation of "big horns in compact packages." A centrally located co-axi

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"We established Goboland UK as a gobo company dedicated to the UK market," says Enever, "which is something that our customers have really responded to in a very positive way. We find people like the local nature of the company and the rapid response to their enquiries and gobo needs that we provide. We offer the same quality of product, attention to detail and customer service which have always been the key to our success and the business is increasing rapidly as a result."

Last year's ABTT saw the launch of the company's Credit Crunch Gobo to celebrate the formation of Gobol

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At 48.5 lbs./22 kilograms, the Elation Design Spot LED weighs less than the original Design Spot 250 Pro, yet produces a light output comparable to a 250-watt discharge lamp. It also offers the easy maintenance typically associated with LED fixtures, since its extended lamp life is 50,000 hours.

Like the original Design Spot 250 Pro, the new Design Spot LED features a variable Frost Filter, which allows it to function as a hybrid spot/wash effect. Other features include a motorised iris, motor

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The Christie LWU420 is a 4200 lumens projector with WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolution, making it suitable for small to medium sized venues including video conference rooms, meeting rooms and training rooms.

"With the Christie LWU420 we have an extremely high resolution product that is both compact and has the highest brightness in its category of LCD business projectors," said Christie business products product manager, Frank Anzures.

The 5500 lumens Christie LW555 projector features native WXGA resolution (1280 x 800), centre lens design with a fully motorised lens sh

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The new products were unveiled at a press launch held yesterday, and comprised two additions to the PRO Series, the PRO3 and PRO9; the XL8i; a new range of Midas digital snakes and new digital audio format and sample rate converters from Klark Teknik.

The PRO9 tops the Midas PRO Series, providing an 88 channel input count and 35 buses, while the "cost-effective" Midas PRO3 will allow more touring riders and professional installations to take advantage of Midas' digital features.

The XL8i is a top-of-the-range addition Midas' digital audio line-up created with the install, theatre and house of worship market in mind.

All the new systems use exactly the same technology and components as the XL8 and PRO6.

Additionally, a full range of standalone Midas digital snake and