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The Insomnia Gaming Festival has been running since 1999. Organised by specialist gaming event producers Multiplay, it is now housed in nine halls at the NEC. Insomnia58 was the biggest Insomnia Gaming Festival yet - with a record attendance of 66,783 people. Gamers have the chance to play an impressive selection of the latest games in halls packed with thousands of PCs and consoles, take part in tournaments, watch the live finals and join in live Q&A sessions with gaming stars.

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The site on Wharfedale Road, Pentwyn was established in 2006 and houses a repair centre, field support team and multi-language helpdesk to cater for B2B customers across Europe.

The Service Centre is also a hub for the remote monitoring of audio-visual products. Panasonic CARES utilises Machine to Machine (M2M) technology, to enable the customer service centre to communicate directly with projector and professional screens via 3G or 4G wherever they are installed. A first of its kind, the scheme allows Panasonic to take preventative action before any problems occur at a customer site.

The Minister for Skills and Science, said: "The Welsh Government is committed to delivering more and better jobs for Wales, through a st

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Available in 2.5mm, 3.0mm, 4.0mm, 6mm and 10mm indoor pitch options, the TrueFLEX LED video system now gives designers the opportunity to achieve unlimited creativity where traditional LED displays were not possible.

"Our goal at PixelFLEX is to provide our customers with the technology that will afford them the ability to create without boundaries or limitations," said David Venus, PixelFLEX director of marketing. "As we have continued to grow in the video integration and AV

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The sweet summertime mood that enveloped fans at the historic ballpark on 9 and 10 September came not from baseball, but from a memorable concert by country music superstar Jason Aldean and special guest Kid Rock.

Contributing to the freewheeling atmosphere was a fast-moving high intensity lightshow created by Keith Hoagland that featured a floor package of Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving hybrid fixtures supplied by Bandit Lites.

"We added the floor package, because we felt that the Rogue Hybrids would be an excellent complement to the other fixtures on our rig," said Ho

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The system was officially commissioned just ahead of the Aggies' fall season, specified and designed by Richmond, Virginia's Anthony James Partners and installed and integrated by Salt Lake City-based Poll Sound, an L-Acoustics certified provider, systems integration.

A total of 24 K2 modules are split between a left and a right line-array hang. In addition, seven L-Acoustics X12 high-performance coaxial speakers are installed underneath the new scoreboard, which is atop a five-story end-zone building, filling the acoustical "shadow" area directly in front of it, while an

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Madrid-based PRG Spain was responsible for the audiovisual production for the festival's three main stages and incorporated Elation Professional's Cuepix Panel LED matrices into the design for Stage Three, a 10,000-capacity stage located inside the main tennis court arena.

"The Mad Cool Festival has been one of our biggest productions this summer with 98 staff from PRG Spain, one full day of set-up and another of lighting, video and sound rehearsals prior to the three days of concerts," said PRG's Francisco 'Pako' Palazon, head of production and lighting design for the three main sta

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PlumpJack Group's business now includes award-winning wineries, luxury resorts, restaurants and clubs, as well as retail outlets. Established in a former printing works in San Francisco's Mission Street, Verso is a high quality space designed to switch quickly and seamlessly from hosting events to a nightclub.

Bradley S. Katz of the city's JK Sound had previously worked with PlumpJack on another venue, MatrixFillmore, and was asked to look at Verso as a result of that venue's success. "Verso was to be a more 'serious' venue and the AV design had to reflect their vision of a truly unique experien

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Also helping contribute to a busy stand was the buzz around all of the new features released within the system since last year's show. These included; Free Scan, an easy process to add additional items to a job, a new Costing Module, helping log all job costs and summarise projected profitability, as well as Part Invoicing and an Open API allowing rental businesses to create exciting integrations.

The Current team were thrilled to see so many new faces on the Stand: "We were rushed off our feet the entirety of PLASA, which was fant

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Completed in 2016, the installation marked another milestone in the relationship between Clear Channel and Absen, with the companies collaborating together for more than three years on projects and product innovations - such as the Absen N Series, developed with airport and retail environments in mind.

Stand-out features such as front installation and service, an ultra slim panel (less than 6cm), noiseless advanced monitoring, image qualit

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Once again, PLASA's high quality free to attend seminar programme was a key element of the show and featured extremely well attended presentations by Durham Marenghi on lighting the Olympic ceremonies in Rio as well as a Production Masterclass from Ola Melzig and Fredrik Jönsson on Eurovision 2016.

This year's content-rich show also featured the seventh edition of the Rigging Conference, hands-on console training opportunities, the Innovation Gallery, and an exp

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As LED video has continued to evolve its technology, designer Frank Blasko has been creating exciting applications that range from dynamic LED video backgrounds to LED video lighting. Now needing a solution that can work within all the parameters of his lighting and video designs, Blasko and MediaLight Inc. have made an investment in FLEXLite NXG 3.9mm and 8.9mm LED video technology becoming the newest PixelFLEX production partner.

"I've been working in the motion picture industry for over two decades and we are now seeing multiple opportunities emerging for the application of LED video lighting, so we wanted to be at the forefront of that

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"I now use Capture in my daily work and it has changed the way I think about the design process," he stated. "After I finish a drawing in SketchUp I just drop it in Capture. It's a seamless import and then it's simple to place the lights and turn them on. I can get all the attributes of a fixture. It's very intuitive, has an easy work flow and has become part of my normal work procedure."

Top Rank Boxing is the country's premiere promotions company for boxing with events that feature some of boxing's biggest stars like Manny Pacquiao. Robinson has been

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Thien Vu Dang, the co-founder and artistic director of MAPP_MTL, explains, "Mapping is a fascinating medium that uses video projection to reinvent spaces. It's a form of art that is gaining more and more notoriety, but still has plenty of untapped potential.

"The festival brings life to a number of structures throughout Mile End and allows the public to reclaim their neighbourhoods, see the environment through new eyes and completely

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14 December 2016

Due to an increasing demand for projection mapping and large-scale content, Hawthorn has added four d3 4x4pro media servers to its already extensive hire inventory, representing an investment of £200,000.

The d3 4

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With its recent decision to open a retail location of its own in New York City, general manager of Stores Whitney Walker was asked to oversee the creation of a listening experience in which customers could discover Sonos just as they would in the comfort of a friend's home. Needing a finishing accent for the downstairs lounge, Walker called upon Rethink Innovations to help create a warm and engaging 30ft fireplace display, and they did so using FLEXLite 6.9mm LED video technology from Nashville-based PixelFLEX.

"Our objective for the Sonos flagship retail location was to build the best place for someone to discover and fall in love with whole home au

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The 20m high by 20m wide Monolith is 10m deep and was created by production designer Es Devlin working in close conjunction with Beyoncé herself who is involved in all the major details of her stage presentation. It takes the striking beauty, isolation and simplicity of a Monolith design concept to amazing new levels.

The object opens 7.3m in the middle, tracks - as two sections on sliding grids - and rotates 360 degrees, a feat of engineering enabled by Belgian automation specialist WIcreations who designed the rotation and slid

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Chris reports to Chalene Chandrasiri, distribution channel manager, and Ian Abernethy, director of sales UK at Peerless-AV. Commenting on the appointment, Ian said, "Our UK pro sales team is the best in the industry, with a distinctive and unequalled approach to partner relationships. The continued success we are seeing in the channel means we've needed to increase our resources. Chris is the ideal new addition to help us expand our route to market options and achieve sales growth targets."

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For the 2016 milestone sporting event, Airstar do Brasil deployed a total of 34 Flex lighting balloons - 12 Flex 4K and 22 Flex 1K - in the legendary Copacabana area. The lighting solutions were installed around the field of play at the Beach Volley Arena (BVA) and the Triathlon Stadium (FTC).

The installation and lighting of both venues was a joint effort between Brazilian companies Fast and ROHR. It was André Stoll, the engineer in charge of electrical installations for the Fast/ROHR consortium, who selected Airstar. Praising the French manufacturer, he comments, "Airstar really did a great job for both the BVA and the FTC Olympic sites, we are really thankful for their profes

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The annual event was hosted by Alan Cumming and saw many famous faces in attendance including Robbie Williams, Geri Horner, Myleen Klass, David Furnish and Fearne Cotton.

Guests enjoyed a champagne reception and pre-show DJ session by Gok Wan followed by a formal dinner, awards and performances by artists Beverley Knight and MNEK. After the ceremony guests retired to a new room and enjoyed the after party with DJ Marvin Humes on the decks.

Annie Bracken from Clearscape Communications comments, "Attitude Awards has now been running for five years. Every year it gets bigger and better, we thoroughly love this event. Working with Matrix makes it easie

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With more than eight years' experience in the Middle East and Africa regions, Shreeram brings a wealth of experience to the Dubai office. Prior to joining Digital Projection, Shreeram worked as an engineer in India before working in sales and product management for Sanyo and Panasonic in the MEA region. He holds an MBA from the SP Jain School of Global Management and a Bachelor in Engineering from Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology in India.

Said Middle East and Turkey regional sales manager Tim Wood, "Shreeram is a great addition to our Middle East team. His appointment wi

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Avolites' team of developers worked alongside Coldplay's video director Ben Miles, who scooped a Knight of Illumination Award 2016 for his work on the tour, and video programmer Leo Flint to bring to life one of the update's most salient new features - Notch and Spout Integration. Notch is a real-time effects generator whilst Spout, a real-time video sharing framework for Windows, allows users to share frames across applications on a computer.

An array of all new visual effects has also bee

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"We decided to add Dataton to our professional package of audio, visual and lighting products due to the rapid demand for visual technologies in the local market," said Pro Lab managing director, Joe Chidiac. "Dataton is a renowned brand and WATCHOUT is the leader in its field. We are delighted to bring such a premium solution to the region."

"We're very happy to have Pro Lab on board to serve this innovative and expansive region. With their broad inventory of high-quality, complementary brands, great reputation and sheer enthusiasm for our product, we see an extremely

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The LED screen was specified by video and visuals designer Ian Holmes of Essex, UK based XIVIX, having used it very successfully on previous tours.

It's the second tour for which he has co-ordinated the video elements for 10cc, where he is again collaborating very closely with lighting designer Russell 'Tigger' Matthews - they have also previously worked together on the Genesis Revisited European tour by Steve Hackett throughout 2013 and "make a good team" says Ian.

Ian sourced the video