Video and AV

Vivid Effect ships digital video sign

Details: 14 March 2016

Austria - The Raiffeisen Bank of Austria wanted an eye-catching corporate branded frontage for their newly refurbished building near Vienna in Austria. Vivid Effect were asked to provide the right combination of architectural, signage and LED experience to achieve their objectives. Working with a local architect and installer, they designed a 20m x 8m screen to be fixed to the first floor exterior of the bank's building.

The LED fixtures used are DingDotz - individually addressable, low profile, self contained, colour changing RGB LEDs that are IP66 waterproof containing super-bright Nichia 3-in-1 sealed LED units. With a viewing angle of 120 degrees, the 15mm fixtures radiate light with high quality colour rendition of 16.7 million hues, which is suitable for directly viewed outdoor architectural signage applications. A standard rackmount Windows PC acts as the master controlle

The ISE Roadshow gathers pace

Details: 14 March 2016

Eastern Europe - The very first ISE Roadshow in Eastern Europe is about to be launched. Starting in Poland and the Czech Republic on 30 October and 1 November respectively, the Roadshow moves to Hungary and Turkey the following week. Two new silver sponsors, Stardraw and Extron have just signed up to add their support to the event. The show organisers have reported a high level of interest from emerging companies in the AV and Electronic Systems Integration market and have issued an advice to anyone still interested in attending to visit the website as soon as possible to guarantee a place at this new event: www.iseurope.org.

The workshops will be of interest to custom and professional installers, buyers and resellers of AV Systems, designers, meeting planners, agencies and IT consultants.

The Roadshow will visit four key cities over an eight-day period and will include four i

Countdown to Hawthorn@Home

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - With only one week to go before the first of this series of Hawthorn@Home events, a 'Pyro Day' on October 13 featuring a demonstration of pyrotechnics by Le Maitre, registrations for the event are doing well, the company reports. "The numbers and quality of the registrations we have already received is encouraging," says Alan Jackson of Hawthorn, "however, we still have capacity at the event to accommodate even more delegates."

Hawthorn regularly organise a series of events, which take place at its base at Old Dalby in Leicestershire. The events run under the heading Hawthorn@Home which give lighting, sound, AV and scenic materials users the opportunity to get hands on with the latest equipment and technology. It is intended the workshops will allow manufacturers, suppliers and users to discuss the products and to gain an insight not normally available o

What can't technicians live without?

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The ABTT is looking to compile a list of the most useful things the British theatre technician might utilise in their working life, from entries submitted by its members and non-members alike.

Any item is eligible and suggestions so far include: the multi-tool; a 17mm box spanner; the hard hat; knee pads; Pilbrow's Stage Lighting Design; a sound pressure level meter; personalised crew room coffee mug; and, a walkie-talkie that works in the nearest pub.

Submissions should be sent to techequip@catherinecooperevents.co.uk by the end of October and include a contact number. One entry chosen at random after the closing date will receive a year's free ABTT membership subscription.

(Chris Henry)

Maxedia for giant video wall

Details: 14 March 2016

Australia - Yaralla Sports Club, the home ground of entertainment in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia is a venue that is highly regarded for its fantastic facilities. The Club includes bars, function rooms and poker machine areas, and adding to their reputation for innovative approaches is a forty meter long video wall which has been installed into their gaming lounge.

Club AV Pty Ltd, a well respected installation and design company for over twenty years, installed the giant video wall - a task that both consultants and others said could not be done.

"The requirement was very difficult to work with," explained Andrew Wood, Queensland operations manager for Club AV. "The Client wanted a full forty metre digital video system that would handle the requirements of a unique experience for his patrons as well as handling any colour, video or image for the venue if ne

Dance4Life appeals for help

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Dance4Life is an international initiative to inspire and engage young people in the global fight against AIDS. The aim is for over 1 million young people from 24 countries to be united within their countries and internationally via live satellite links on World AIDS Day 2012.

In the UK Dance4Life is looking for support in two areas. They are hoping to secure a PA system for the Dance4Life UK School Tour, which starts on 23 October for four weeks. The Tour will visit 30 schools with the interactive Dance4Life performance, and would be looking to loan the equipment.

They are also looking for technical support to help make the Dance4Life BIG Event on 25 November a real success. This will bring together 500 young people from across the UK in a unique event with high profile A list DJs and performers attending. The event will be linked visually to other Dance4Life events happe

Bosch introduces Congress Control Software

Details: 14 March 2016

Germany - Bosch Security Systems' Digital Congress Network (DCN) Next Generation congress system has already gained an enviable reputation thanks to its powerful features and exceptional ease-of-use, says the company. Now Bosch introduces an advanced yet intuitive Congress Control Software to further enhance the versatility and ease-of-use of the DCN systems.

The company's new Synoptic Microphone and Voting Software provides a range of new functions including automatic seat assignment, synoptic microphone monitoring and control, synoptic voting management, easy control of the system, monitoring and adjustments of all settings, and automatic link to PowerPoint to show real time voting results in graphs etc.

The new software also departs from the traditional control panel and buttons, which are replaced with a highly intuitive user interface based on a graphical representation o

Danley for Sugarloaf United Methodist Church

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Sugarloaf United Methodist Church in Duluth, Georgia recently debuted new audio, projection, and video distribution systems installed by dB Audio & Video in Gainesville, Georgia in its new Community Life Building. Sugarloaf's Minister of Worship Arts, Larry Parker, worked with Ronnie Stanford, systems advisor for dB, to create an AV system thatwould serve the multi-purpose nature of the space.

The Community Life Building is the epicentre, to its 1,600-member congregation serving as the worship space, the gymnasium for church sporting events, as well as the meeting place for fellowship meals. From an AV standpoint, the building was both a technical and creative challenge for dB.

"Sugarloaf's staff and volunteers are highly competent in media ministry and knew their functionality requirements," says Stanford. "They wanted high-fidelity audio and complete cove

Speaker at The Event Show is announced

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - The Event Show has announced that Michael Eavis, the Godfather of Glastonbury, will be speaking at the Access Sessions, hosting a question and answer seminar for event organisers at Olympia in London on 24 January 2007, day one of the two-day exhibition.

The Event Show is established as one of the leading exhibitions in the industry for anyone organising indoor or outdoor events. The Show attracts some of the most prestigious names in concert promotion, sound and lighting, festivals and live entertainment.

"This is a major coup and we expect a packed audience for his seminar," explains Michelle Tayton, manager of The Event Show. "The continuous evolvement of Glastonbury is one of the event industry's greatest success stories. The fact that we have been able to provide event organisers with access to one of the industry's most prestigious figureheads is test

New TV sets with Stark

Details: 14 March 2016

Italy - For the second consecutive year, the cult television programme Che tempo che Fa has chosen the multiprojection concept to create its architectural set.Director Duccio Forzano and director of photography Danilo Marabotto, have asked visual designer Paolo Buroni to create a 360° set with clouds as the theme. In order to do this, the entire perimeter surface of studio 3 in Milano has been covered with a gigantic screen.

Using 11 Stark projectors, Paolo Buroni has created a full-immersion setting of graphically processed clouds. The goal was to create a floating sensation throughout the studio. This effect was obtained by projecting overlapping images on the background walls as well as on the floor all around Fabio Fazio and his guests.

By programming the Stark projectors using the special scrolling function, the effect of slowly moving clouds was created, an ef

L-R: Dale Miller, Christie VP EMEA, and Lee Spencer, XL Video MD.

XL Video invests in Christie Projectors

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Over the past ten years XL Video has proved to be one of the fastest growing rental staging video production companies on the global map, establishing itself as a market leader in the concert touring market, as well as in the trade show, television, outdoor and indoor event sectors.

With a UK base in Hemel Hempstead, and sales office throughout Europe and the United States, the XL Video Group maintain a multi-million pound, state-of-the-art equipment inventory. Following impressive year-on-year growth the UK operation is shortly to relocate from its 9,000sq.ft premises to a massive 42,000sq.ft facility in order to accommodate its expanding hire fleet and marketing reach.

Sensing it had a shortage of dependable high-brightness projectors, took delivery of its first consignment of Christie DLP projection in the form of ten flagship S+20K SXGA+ Roadsters. Before the order wa

High End Systems Launches Axon Media Server

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - High End Systems today launches Axon, a rack-mount media server featuring the same graphics engine as the DL.2 digital light. Axon will be shown at High End Systems' booth at the ETS-LDI trade show on 20-22 October in Las Vegas.

Axon is a flexible solution for those who already have their own video display device, and want a world of unlimited image possibilities.

"Axon has been a highly requested product since we first released the DL.2 last year," says Scott Blair, director of digital lighting development. "The ability for lighting designers and programmers to use a media server - which operates like the DL.2 - for other elements of their show represents an enormous time savings when programming a show by not having to switch between the programming syntax differences of other media servers. Axon puts all the features of the DL.2 Graphics Engine into a 3

Chauvet DVwall HR Display System

Details: 14 March 2016

France - With an IP-65 rating and a modular design for optimal flexibility and ease of installation, the DVwall HR is a robust LED display system for distant viewing in entertainment venues, stadiums, theme parks, billboards, as well as the rental and staging markets. Delivering 16 million colours with a pixel pitch of 31mm, it displays high-resolution graphics, animated gifs, Flash, PowerPoint, video and images to delight viewers and maximise the return on investment. It is compatible with Windows Media Player.

The system consists of 0.5m x 0.5m DV modules, each fitted with 2,304 LEDs ingeniously grouped in clusters to enhance brilliance. Each module comes with mounting hardware designed to allow multiple configurations, offering a wealth of creative flexibility. Pixel density is 256 per module or 1,024 pixels per sq.m. With endurance in mind, even the mounting system and conne

ShowMagic

Details: 14 March 2016

ShowMagic highlighted their new Version 11.0 PC show control software, complete with new-look graphics, surround sound and "live" mode, allowing operators to work on the fly as well as in a pro-programmed domain.

New appointment at Charter Broadcast

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Duncan Payne has been appointed client development manager for Charter Broadcast, reporting directly to managing director Michael Breen. Payne joins Charter from Mitcorp, where he spent over six years, and was responsible for selling top end broadcast equipment in to the rental and outside broadcast markets. Having joined Mitcorp as a sales executive, and progressing to become sales manager, Payne brings a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise, the company says.

At Charter, Payne will focus on developing its already successful dry hire business further by broadening the market it currently services. He will be overseeing Charter's disposals policy, ensuring that Charter reinforces its reputation as a quality supplier of quality equipment. He comments: "I am delighted to be joining Charter Broadcast at such an exciting time. I have worked with Charter many times ov

Green Hippo

Details: 14 March 2016

Media server specialists Green Hippo previewed its latest Hippotizer V3. Fusing the Green Hippo design team's video and lighting backgrounds, the company says it aims to make convergence a reality! The system offers multi-discipline operation. Key features include: timeline functionality, HippoNet advanced networking capability, media management and efficiency-focused features. Hippotizer can work autonomously, control other devices or be controlled externally.

Sound Leisure

Details: 14 March 2016

Jukebox manufacturer Sound Leisure from Leeds featured their top-of-the range digital Browser machine, which is touch-screen controlled and does video and audio, yielding up to 500 audio and 2,000 video tracks. It can be profiled according to musical genre, and programmed up to 14 days in advance for events, timed messages, promotions, etc. The company still also manufactures old-style mechanical machines too, which are proving very popular for celebrity homes!

YCD

Details: 14 March 2016

YCD showed their latest multimedia and audio, video and digital content integration capabilities in the form of a single PC that can output 26 different channels of digital content including six streams of HD video. Another exciting new product was their SMS Juke Box - the first of its kind in the world - for which they took four confirmed orders on the first day of the show. It works on the same multimedia platform as other products and enables customers to choose the music going on the juke box by texting in from their phones.

Medialon

Details: 14 March 2016

New products showcased by Medialon include the Manager V4, which allows users to program and synchronise an unlimited number of devices (audio, video, lighting, special effects etc). Recently used on the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ride at Alton Towers, it controls animatronics, extensive special effects, a CCTV system, projectors, DMX lighting, show power relays, video servers, MP3 replay units and more.

Shock Solutions

Details: 14 March 2016

Shock Solutions is a new, Kent-based company providing audio-visual solutions to the retail, leisure, entertainment and education markets. The company can provide full production services, lighting, PA, staging, video pre and postproduction and much more. Shock Solutions are distributors for Capture real-time show design software for Windows, various digital signage solutions and I-Floor interactive flooring!

Nedit

Details: 14 March 2016

,b>Nedit from Germany showed 'Media Face' - a low resolution video surface that's ideal for building facades, billboards, giant advertising hoardings and other large-format applications. It can also be used indoors in sizes of 1,000sq.m and over. Transparency is often an issue, and this screen can be fitted over the glass facades and windows of a building without obliterating the lighting or the view for those still working inside.

Computer DJ

Details: 14 March 2016

Computer DJ were back with their wide range of products for DJs, clubs, pubs, hotels, etc. New at the show was the PCVJ video software which amalgamates video and audio files, and Q-Play - a multi-zoned software for hotel and pubs that sends feeds from a single PC system to up to four destinations or zones. The company also showed its popular 00DJ "all in one" DJ module, containing everything needed to 'plug and play' in one briefcase.

Edirol

Details: 14 March 2016

Edirol introduced its V-440HD video mixer, which the company says creates new standards in the market. It's an 8-input console that combines 4 inputs of standard definition video with 4 inputs that can be either high definition video (1080i or 720p) or RGB at any resolution from VGA (640x480) to SXGA (1280x1024) - and then output all of these at the resolution that the user chooses. With other features including keyers and picture-in-picture on SD and HD, plus the ability to split output over multiple units, the V-440HD is a single-box solution that "answers every event manager's needs at a price that nobody thought possible" the company says.

Projected Image Digital

Details: 14 March 2016

Projected Image Digital offer digital media software and hardware solutions, and also produce video content. They were showcasing several 'household' brands such as Catalyst with the new v4 version of the Media Server, and UK partner Element Labs' 'Versa' LED range, which includes: Versa TUBEs, Versa TILES and Versa PIXELs etc.

The show saw the launch of new training initiatives from PID, and introduced some new faces to the team. PID has been elevated to full Apple reseller status.

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