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UK - Large format projection specialists E//T//C UK - fresh from its dramatic projections onto Buckingham Palace last week for the 60th and final MOD Commemorations of World War 2 - also beamed giant images onto Portsmouth Guildhall for Portsmouth Remembers - a one-off evening of images, words and song staged in Guildhall Square to commemorate the ending of hostilities in 1945.

The Portsmouth Guildhall, home to Portsmouth City Council, was opened in 1890. It was bombed to a shell in 1941, and reopened after extensive rebuilding in 1959. Measuring approximately 60m wide by 40m tall, E/T/C UK's projections stretched across the entire front fascia of the white stone structure.

E//T//C UK was approached by Heather Todd from the Council's Arts Services Department, who was aware of their work on Buckingham Palace. She thought that projection would be the ideal medium to produ

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UK - Production company Flux Events have promoted and production managed a dramatic evening of music and film at London's Royal Albert Hall using a 13.2m x 10m Harkness Hall screen. Staged as part of the VE Day 60th Anniversary celebrations, a performance of Shostakovitch's Leningrad Symphony written in 1942 at the beginning of Nazi siege of the city, was performed by the St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer's son, Maxim.

A seventy two minute film by Russian director Georgy Paradzhanov which was inspired by author-designer Sergai Davitiaya and the official Russian information agency, Novosti, cleverly used newsreel and contemporary images to mirror the haunting themes of the music. Projection was by two Barco projectors running overlaid images.

Another Harkness Hall screen, measuring 14.8m by 9.5m featured in an earlier Flux Events open air produ

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USA - After a devastating fire, the Hilton Garden Inn/Thelma Keller Convention Center complex in Effingham, Illinois, has re-opened with a renewed emphasis on attracting event-related business.

AVI Systems, St Louis, Missouri, handled the extensive audio-visual work for the complex and selected the Symetrix SymNet modular audio mixing, routing and digital processing system as a core technology for managing the complexities of its design.

Michael McNeil, who helped design and install the system, says: "SymNet was virtually the only product on the market with the ability to discretely and intelligently perform multiple tasks," McNeil says. "It's the core of the whole system design."

Four 8x8 SymNet units, two Break-In 12 boxes and two CobraNet units handle the mixing, processing and routing of audio to the convention center ballroom area, which can be parti

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USA - Lighthouse Technologies reported record sales during the InfoComm International Exposition 2005 (8-10 June, Las Vegas). The company attributes the success to its debut of LED video screens, which it says break new ground in digital signage, entertainment and special events. This includes PopVision, the industry's first portable and self-sustaining LED screen, and two new fanless 10 mm pixel pitch indoor LED screens.

"The unveiling of these advanced products coincides with an upswing in the LED video technology industry, providing us with tremendous market momentum," said Tony Turiello, vice-president sales, marketing and operations in the Americas for Lighthouse. "InfoComm has always been a profitable event, even so, this year we registered more sales in the opening hours than the overall total of any past show."

Taking centre stage at the InfoComm wa

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UK - Cable specialist VDC Trading has supplied a large variety of reeled stock to Saville Audio Visual, which is handling the AV and power installation within the Ricoh Arena, the brand new home of Coventry City FC.

Over 600m of five-way Mini Red Video Coax cable is being installed, along with Cat 5 data cable and a range of specialist audio cables.

"We chose VDC cables for a variety of reasons, not least the reliability, quality and price point," says Jim Millar, presentation systems manager for Saville. "We have used the company's products in the past, particularly for larger projects. In this case VDC were also able to deliver cable in different reel sizes, which was an important consideration."

Saville is UK's largest specialist supplier of audio visual, video and presentation technology and the Official Audio Visual Partner for the £113 million stad

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UK - Liverpool's third HUB Festival - a mix of art, music and extreme sports staged at the Pier Head - expanded and featured several new elements this year.

The event is the brainchild of the Council's Liverpool Culture Company and included music, skateboarding and BMX competitions, graffiti art exhibitions and music performed by many excellent local bands

Kirstie Blakeman, event manager, explained that they had created a new look main stage under the cover of a single king pole, purple membrane tent supplied by Wangos, which was chosen for its aesthetics. She added: "With the event being held at Liverpool's waterfront World Heritage Site we wanted something unique and different looking, something really special and dynamic for the music zone this year - not just another standard stage or marquee."

The same was true for the DJ tent, compared by Spykatcha - which sa

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USA - Chauvet at PLASA will launch a series of high power 40mW to 80mW lasers with the introduction of the Scorpion Scan 40 and the Scorpion Scan 80 green lasers, plus the Scorpion 55RG-64 red and green laser. Presented in distinctive metallic red casings, these three high-efficiency lasers respond to DMX-512 control via seven channels. They also operate on stand-alone mode via DMX and in master/slave mode. Each yields more than 200 laser effects achieved through controlled variations in the speed of scanning, the speed of 40 preset dynamic patterns and adjustments in the size of 40 pre-set static patterns and X and Y positioning.

They use scanning mirrors for pattern projection and positioning, creating the broad range of effects. Scorpion Scan 40 and Scorpion 80 are outfitted with a 40mW laser diode and an 80mW diode, respectively, yielding highly intense beams. Scorpion 55RG-

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UK - For the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War II the Ministry of Defence engaged Unusual Services to provide production services for a weeklong programme of events.

The main focus of the week was on Sunday 10 July with an event staged on Horse Guards Parade for 11,000 veterans. Edwin Shirley Staging built a 40m x 25m stage with sound supplied by Wigwam, lighting provided by PRG Europe and a 160m scenic wall from Centrestage. Other key suppliers included Search, Power Logistics, Arena Seating, Unusual Rigging, Screenco, Show & Event, Dobson Sound, Delta Sound, Thorns and National Radio Bank.

During the week leading up to the celebrations, images of previously unseen World War II photographs were projected onto the façade of Buckingham Palace. In addition an 85m x 30m tented Veterans Centre was installed in St. James's Park along with a Living Museum, Press Centre, a BB

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UK - XL Video supplied Oasis with a seven-camera DPU including one of its new GV Zodiac vision mixing desks, three 'Magic' DVE's, a matrix switcher and Dataton control for its UK stadium tour. XL also supplied a Catalyst digital media server used by the show's artistic director and lighting designer Andi Watson.

The band's overall video production was coordinated by video director Dick Carruthers' company, Cheese Film & Video Productions, with touring video production manager Dave Wright overseeing the 35 video crew.

The show is a dynamic, pacey mix of live camera and specially created playback sources onto six LED screens - four onstage which moved up and down on a Kinesys vari-speed automation system, and stage left and right side screens.

Carruthers and programmer Richard Turner maximized XL's pre-programming facilities for prepping the show at its Hertfordshire HQ, worki

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USA - 'A sensory overload' is what Toshiba wanted for its corporate meeting 15-20 May in Miami. Plus the design had to enhance Terry Bradshaw and The Beach Boys, who would also take the stage.

"Our design objective was to create an immersive environment resulting in a sensory overload that would work in tandem with automated lighting," says veteran LD Bill Strother of Carrollton, TX, who was called in to set the scene.

To carry out his design, Strother selected six High End Systems DL1 digital light fixtures and a Catalyst Pro Media Server, supplied by Zenith Lighting of Orlando.

"The set - provided by the client - was a vast array of different Spandex shapes," Strother explains. "With that many differing surfaces for projection, we had to be able to hit as many as we could with only six projectors - knowing that it would be very difficult to gauge t

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USA - Hilary Duff has seemingly done it all at the ripe old age of nearly 18. Stage actress, film and television star (she was Lizzie McGuire on the TV show of the same name), she even has her own clothing line. And oh yes, she also finds time to sing.

Hilary Duff kicked off her Still Most Wanted tour in LA in July and will be touring the US through September. Teaming up on the tour are the Martin Maxxyz lighting console and Maxedia media server along with MAC 2000 Wash, MAC 300 wash lights, VL3000s and conventionals, all in the hands of lighting designer Seth Jackson. Tour lighting supplier is Bandit Lites.

"The plot was changing up until a day before the truck loaded," Jackson commented. "If it weren't for the flexibility of the crew (Sam Harden, BK Waggoner and Billy Willingham) and the endless amounts of drawings and input from Dizzy Gosnell, I doubt

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UK - Star Events Group was recently involved with the series of spectacular shows that took place at the Tower of London during July this year. The client, Planit Events approached Star Orbit requiring a 20m five bay flat back Orbit stage structure to be positioned in the moat surrounding the Tower for five nights of grand opera and six nights of jazz.

One of the main stipulations from the client was the need to effectively seat and protect from the elements a 60-piece orchestra without obscuring the onstage artists and disrupting audience sightlines. Mike Goodwin (Star Orbit) and the Star Design team collaborated with Planit to devise an under-stage Orchestra pit that provided the shelter the orchestra members required whilst maintaining the sound quality. This was achieved by extending the front of the stage floor out and over the heads of the musicians. Onstage the stunning c

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The Netherlands - E/T/C UK used eight PIGI 6kW projectors and scrollers to project onto a dramatic shrinking perspective stage set for the Dutch Musical Awards Gala. The images from each machine were soft-edged together to create a single, high-impact picture. The company believes it to be a world-first for this many images to be combined using the 'feathering' technique in large format projection.

The event, staged at the New Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam, honoured the best of Dutch Musical Theatre. Technical production was coordinated by De Meern-based Sightline Productions, and production managed by Erwin Rintjema for producer The Musical Awards Foundation and Eyeworks.

Complex site measurements were needed to calculate the required perspective correction. E/T/C UK's Ross Ashton says: "These were the most complicated line-up grids we have ever had to produce." Each p

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XL Video was promoting its increasingly active role in scenic projection for theatre, including recent productions such as The Woman In White (see L&SI November 2004). Malcolm Mellows drew attention to the company's involvement with the forthcoming stage adaptation of Lord of the Rings. The US$22m musical production will preview in February 2006 at Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre; the London debut is set for autumn 2006. Thomas Gray and Yuri Tanaka of the Gray Circle, whose previous work includes His Dark Materials at the National Theatre (see L&SI February 2004), will design and direct the moving imagery. Music is by Bombay Dreams composer, A.R. Rahman.

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USA - Lighthouse Technologies, the manufacturer and supplier of leading LED video screen systems for mobile and fixed applications, has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Sony Electronics Inc to utilize Sony's extensive resources to provide national on-site service programs to Lighthouse's existing and new professional grade LED large screen video customers in North America.

Lighthouse say: "Sony has a long history with large-scale display systems, making them uniquely qualified to provide contract maintenance services and remote system monitoring to professional-grade LED video systems, such as those being sold by Lighthouse Technologies."

Under the LOI, the two companies expect to develop contract maintenance programs and remote system monitoring services catered to Lighthouse's large screen LED display systems. Sony will staff and maintain a North American field

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UK - XL Video is again working with cinematographer Jon Driscoll on the acclaimed Anonymous Society (Andrew Wale and Perrin Manzer) production, Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, featuring the music of The Smiths. The show has just world premiered at the Hammersmith Lyric theatre and will transfer to the Dublin International Theatre Festival before commencing a UK tour in the autumn.

Driscoll created footage especially for the show which, taking the rhythms, words and thoughts of songwriters Morrissey and Johnny Marr as its starting point, is a musical with a difference. Paul Wood is project managing for XL, who supplied the video hardware including a Barco G5 projector, a Catalyst digital media server and a Hog 500 lighting desk to run all the video cues. The images were projected the full height and two thirds of the width of the backdrop, subtly asymmetric, erring to s

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UK - Hocken AV has recently installed audio-visual presentation equipment including the JVC DLA-SX21E video projector in the principal meeting room at St Bede's Conference Centre, the training facility of St Anthony's Hospital in North Cheam, Surrey, UK.

St Anthony's is an independent charitable hospital in the private sector and is a major provider of cardiac surgery. Its sister organization, St Raphael's Hospice, provides a free service to local residents. "When we are not using the centre for our own purposes, we rent it to outside users, which include local NHS organizations, councils and commercial and voluntary organisations. All of these users expect the equipment to be easy to operate and produce the best in image quality," says Philip Cook, head of marketing at St Anthony's Hospital. Cook adds, it is our intention in the future, to extend the use of the confer

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Europe - A pair of Christie's flagship 25K Roadie projectors have been integrated into the dynamic stage backdrop created by Siyan show director Bryan Leitch and lighting designer Nick Whitehouse for Coldplay's Twisted Logic World tour.

While this is Coldplay's second world tour with lighting company, Siyan, it is their first with the next-generation three-chip DLP Roadies. They were dry hired to the production by Robin Wealleans' company The Picture Works as part of a package that included sophisticated camera and control equipment.

According to the band's video director, Alan Yates, the Roadies were selected for their high brightness and high-resolution output. They continue to function superbly as an alternative video reference to the IMAG LED sidescreens. In the shows to date, the projectors have been positioned on a tower at FOH so set up and alignment was straightforward

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UK - Blitz Communications, part of the Blitz Charter Group, has been appointed as a preferred AV equipment and services supplier for corporate and private events at the Science Museum in London. The selection was made following a competitive tender, based on Blitz's flexibility, industry knowledge and range of equipment, say the company.

As a listed building with strict health and safety regulations, the Science Museum has rigorous controls regarding the use of external suppliers. Only companies on the preferred suppliers list can work in the building. Paul Hutton, managing director of Blitz, explains: "Achieving 'preferred supplier' status at venues as prestigious and popular as the Science Museum should be a business objective for any AV rental and staging company. It speaks volumes about the reputation and capability of Blitz that we have won this tender. It opens up a n

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USA - XL Touring Video was fortunate enough to be a part of this project from the very early stages. Vince, Nikki, Mick and Tommy went through numerous incarnations of what they wanted on stage with production designer, Justin of Art Fag LLC. The resulting Carnival of Sins Tour was a great representation of the band and the fact that is one of the top five grossing tours speaks for itself. The collaboration of Motley Crue and Justin delivered the goods as evidence by fan reaction, say XL.

The tour consists of custom content by Brian Dressel of OVT, two Barco R18 Projectors and two Barco R5s provided by XL Touring Video. Band management is Alan Zulo, Chris Kasey and Jack Carson and touring on behalf of XL is Rob McShane as video director and Mike Casillas as projectionist.

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Italy - Global Display Solutions (GDS), the leading designer and manufacturer of industrial displays, has opened an outdoor test facility in Cornedo, Italy, to provide the capacity to rigorously test its outdoor displays in real environmental conditions, offering its customers total quality assurance that its displays can endure all weather conditions.

This new facility allows GDS to track the actual behaviour of the monitor once it has been installed in the field. The displays tested in the new facility are all connected through an intranet system, which allows GDS to collect and compare their data: all temperature, humidity and sun power radiation values are recorded into a server computer. A complicated evaluation of this data allows GDS to map the most reliable thermal cooling system for each display and application. This test also enables GDS to verify the laboratory simula

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UK - PSL Exhibitions has been confirmed as the official Audio-Visual/IT contractor for a number of high-profile UK exhibitions, including the prestigious Toy Fair at the start of 2006 and three shows for organizers IIR. Two brand-new events have appointed PSL as exclusive supplier of all AV and IT services. Games Market Europe, staged by Tandem Events at the BDC, is aimed at the video and computer games industry: Careers in Retail is a new EMAP careers showcase, which will be held at Olympia.

PSL also renews its contracts to supply services to A Place in the Sun, the UK's largest overseas property and travel exhibition, and Reed Exhibitions' World Travel Market event. PSL has also secured contracts with high-technology showcases which depend heavily on AV presentation; these include the Smartphone Show, organized by Symbian; IPEX, the world's largest expo for the print industry

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UK - ExCeL London has strengthened its service by partnering with UK provider of audio-visual equipment and services, Blitz.

The agreement will see Blitz supplying ExCeL London with the latest in technology, sound, lighting, video plus sets and staging. An on-site technical team will be on hand to ensure clients are offered a total AV solution to meet their exact needs; whether they are staging a seminar, conference, product launch, gala dinner, party or exhibition.

The service will be available to organisers using any of the venue's multipurpose event spaces. Paul Hutton, managing director of Blitz comments: "We are very pleased to be able to work with ExCeL London. The venue is an important site for events in London and we look forward to delivering our services and solutions to the many blue-chip corporate, public sector and association clients that ExCeL London now at

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USA - Miami International Airport has been subject to a major refurbishment programme over the past eighteen months. After extensive testing of several LCD panels, Toshiba was selected by the airport administration to supply the airport with its state-of-the-art LCD displays.

To date, Toshiba has delivered over 120 of its P32LSA 32" LCD panel, and the airport expects to order more than 1,500, including the new P42LSA 42" pane, says Toshiba. The large-screen displays will provide critical flight, gate and baggage information, all integrated into the renovated and new terminals.

Betros Wakim, president and CEO of AirIT states, "We evaluated many LCD options and after extensive and rigourous testing, the airport chose Toshiba. And while it was important that Toshiba meet the airport's specifications, they also needed to meet AirIT's expectations as a partner in ord

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