UK - Earlier this week, two pallets of Kramer Electronics equipment were stolen from the back of a lorry in Hemel Hempstead, UK.

Amongst the long list of items stolen were the first VS-42HDMI 4x2 HDMI matrix switchers to be brought into the UK, and the first FC-31 UXGA-DVI converter. Products suitable for broadcast, professional AV and custom install were stolen.

If anybody has any suspicions about Kramer goods being offered to them, they can contact PC 2129 Fontenelle from Hertfordshire Constabulary, on 01442 271017, quoting crime ref DI/07/8568.

(Jim Evans)

Austria - Visual Productions has confirmed the appointment of Vienna based company Klangfarbe Sound & Light as a new dealer for its lighting control software products.

Founded in the 1980s to supply musicians with the newest gear combined with a high level of service and support, Klangfarbe today consists of four divisions - E-Guitars, Acoustics, Studio & Keyboards and Sound & Light.

The Sound & Light division focuses on pro-audio and light solutions for installation into, amongst other venues, museums, shops and bars. With the addition of VisualDMX lighting control software to their product range, says Andreas Prochaska, light sales director, the "seamless integration of a touchscreen and the visualisation tool Visual3D, usually only found in much more expensive gear" gives great opportunities for smart, affordable lighting control.

(Jim Evans)

USA - Having been used to great effect earlier this year on the National Football League's (NFL) Superbowl trophy, Lighthouse Technologies' ultra fine resolution R4 4mm LED screen is being used for broadcasting Sunday Night Football on NBC at 8pm every Sunday this fall.

Hosted by Al Michaels giving play-by-play commentary and John Madden as the colour announcer, the show broadcasts Sunday night's primetime games.

New York-based full service production company AG Light and Sound is responsible for the installation and operation of the screen, which is positioned at the rear of the onsite broadcast booth. An XClyps video playback system from Chyron supplies the video feed from NBC's mobile production studio. The system is composed of an HD background loop with a live feed of scores and HD-SDI input. This data is then fed through a Lighthouse LIP-KX Interface Processor to the scr

UK - Projection specialists E/T/C UK supplied Christie high powered video projection and an OnlyView multi-screen control system onto a 24 metre curved screen for the BT Digital Music Awards, a Ballistic Events project, staged at London's Roundhouse.

The event honoured the best in the fast moving world of music-related digital innovation and communications. It was presented by Sara Cox and broadcast on Channel 4.

E/T/C UK's Andy Joyes was approached by Paul Corrick, from production company Reality, to supply projection for the event. It was the first time the two companies have collaborated, and Reality's Creative Director Alice Lindars worked closely with Joyes and the E/T/C UK team to design and programme the widescreen Awards nominations/winners graphics package plus live screen inserts.

The projection screen was curved around the rear of the stage in keeping with the nat

Lebanon - Beirut-based Vatech Video & Audio has taken over the distribution of Telex/RTS products in the Lebanon with immediate effect.

Fadi Serhan, the general manager of the company, has been an expert on the Lebanese broadcasting market for over twenty years, working as a broadcast engineer for 10 years before founding Vatech Video & Audio in 1996. The company, which recently opened a new showroom in the centre of Beirut, maintains excellent contact with all the major Lebanese broadcasters, and now employs a staff of seven to handle sales, logistics, engineering and support.

"With Telex/RTS systems in our portfolio, we can now offer our customers the best intercom solutions available on the market," declares Serhan. "Furthermore, the Lebanese market has put the uncertainty of recent years behind it and is now growing fast. Private broadcasters are investing i

UK - For the first time in 50 years, the massive dish of the Jodrell Bank Observatory's Lovell Radio Telescope was utilised as a giant open-air projection screen for a public son et lumière event, Space 50.

Space 50 is a series of events celebrating 50 Years since the launch of the world's first artificial satellite - Sputnik 1 - which the Telescope tracked - significantly marking the dawn of the "Space Age".

Creative Media Techniques (CMT) supplied all technical infrastructure - including projection, lighting, lasers and sound - and crew, working closely with show producer Dr Alastair Gunn, a radio astronomer from the University of Manchester's School of Physics and Astronomy - who conceived the event.

The CMT team was led by Richard Hawkins. The original brief involved projecting moving images onto the 75m wide dish, together with a sound system for the audio tr

Europe - 'Innovation, information, and inspiration' are the three themes for this year's Integrated Systems Roadshow, as it prepares to depart on a five-city tour of some of Europe's emerging markets for AV and Electronic Systems technology.

The Roadshow, powered by Integrated Systems Europe, begins in the Danish capital of Copenhagen on 17 October, before visiting Warsaw (19 Oct), Prague (22 Oct), Vienna (24 Oct), and Zagreb (26 Oct).

In addition to an expanded exhibition area, the Roadshow will feature a strong line-up of education sessions, led by some of the AV industry's most respected professionals, and all provided free of charge to attendees.

"Our training sessions give attendees a unique opportunity to update their knowledge about the latest technology developments in this thirving market," says Mike Blackman, managing director, Integrated Systems Events.<

USA - Rob Drake, Mayor of Beaverton, Oregon, joined with Beaverton-based Biamp Systems and industry advocacy group, InfoComm, to officially declare 21-27 October as AV Week. A host of companies and organisations from around the world will celebrate AV Week with special events at schools, job fairs and community outreach activities.

Biamp has organised a series of special events to take place over the course of AV Week including visits to local area High Schools to perform complimentary hearing exams and present a lecture on the science of sound and a tour of the company's R&D and manufacturing facilities by students from the DSP programme at Portland State University.

Commenting on the declaration, Biamp Systems marketing project manager, Abbey Masciarotte noted, "With the advent of digital technology, audio and video technology pervades so many aspects of everyday life:

Germany - A spectacular event to celebrate 60 years of Volkswagen vans held in Hanover, Germany, attracted an impressive 71,000 visitors. Atman, Croatia's leading AV specialists supplied and installed a giant digiLED d11R screen for the duration of the festivities.

Volkswagen van fans travelled from as far away as Australia, Portugal, Russia, the Ukraine, Denmark, Poland, the UK, France and Holland to celebrate the occasion. The celebrations started with a special convoy through Hanover from the Volkswagen factory to the showground hosting the event.

All the event festivities, including presentations and prize ceremonies, were relayed onto the digiLED screen from an OB truck on site. A concert by The Who ended the celebrations in spectacular style.

A total of 108 modules created the 83.64m² screen. Measuring 10.56m high x 7.92 m wide, the 12 x 9 module configuration dominat

USA - Constantine Zachariou, engineer and project manager for Washington-based audio/video design firm Avidex, was contracted to handle the audio renovation of the downtown Seattle Art Museum. Zachariou chose Symetrix' SymNet DSP systems to be at the heart of each of the museum's six new audio systems. His objective was to upgrade the museum's audio systems to handle the museum's many uses while still ensuring transparent, easy operation for the museum staff.

The downtown Seattle Art Museum, a crown jewel in the city's vibrant cultural life and home to works spanning human history across many cultures, recently underwent an $86 million renovation and expansion that dramatically increased its gallery space, created a new shop and restaurant, and propelled its audio systems into the 21st century.

Zachariou's designs replaced antiquated analogue systems in the 100-seat Nordstrom

UK - XL Video has taken delivery of 20 new Barco FLM HD 18K projectors including lenses and lamps, worth 2 million Euros.

XL Video UK's MD Lee Spencer explained that the purchase is the latest in XL's ongoing commitment to offering their clients the very latest and best available technologies.

A number of the new Barco HD units will be based at the Bromsgrove, West Midlands offices of Show Support (an XL Group company). XL's HD units are making their debut on the new Take That tour which kicked off last week.

(Jim Evans)

UK - At the recent AV Awards 2007 ceremony held at the Park Lane Hilton, London, Norwegian projector manufacturer, projectiondesign won two awards including the Grand Prix award for the A-V Company of the Year and Manufacturer of the Year.

"We're over the moon to have been acknowledged for our commitment and contribution to the audio visual industry. projectiondesign's growth isbuilt on a solid foundation and reputation for quality products, streamlined manufacturing processes and technical innovation, all of which are backed byquality people who are key to our success," comments Anders L°kke, marketing and communications manager at projectiondesign.

(Jim Evans)

Canada - Now into its second year, Virgin's V-Fest in the city of Toronto attracted 35,000 fans. Braving long waits at the ferry didn't deter the crowds who were rewarded with V's ubiquitous top class line-up including The Killers, Bjork, The Smashing Pumpkins and Arctic Monkeys, and Lighthouse Technologies' LED screens formed an integral part of the action.

Supplied by Toronto-based MVI MultiVision, two R16 16mm screens, measuring 12.4m2 each, were positioned stage left and right with two secondary R16 screens measuring 3m2 each situated beneath the main screen. Processing was via a Lighthouse LIP-SX Interface Processor, Snell & Wilcox Supervisor and Folsom ScreenPro and ImagePro for image scaling.

"The main screens were displaying live images from content supplied from camera positions which were provided by Canadian TV network MUCH Music," explains MVI's vice pres

Denmark / France - As part of a major restructuring of its international distributor and dealer network, DK-Technologies has announced the appointment of Monitoring Company to distribute is entire range of audio and video metering products in France.

Based near Nice, Monitoring Company is headed by Jean-Baptiste Lannoy and has over 20 years' experience in the music, video and broadcast industries. Among the many top brands the company represents are Evertz, Marshall and ASTRO.

"We use our extensive in-house technical knowledge to ensure that our customers are provided with exactly the right equipment for their needs," says Jean-Baptiste Lannoy. "We select products for distribution on the demands of the market and every product we stock is thoroughly tested to ensure that it meets our rigorous specifications. Our belief is that quality is cheap because by distrib

UK - DMi D&M Installation has announced that it will undertake the distribution of a new multi-room networking solution provider in the new year. The announcement follows an agreement reached with Opus Technologies to cease distribution of its multi-room audio and video systems.

DMi's strategy, as a one-stop provider of CI and commercial AV solutions, offers potential for a multi-room system closely integrated with the developing network capabilities of its Denon, Escient and Marantz distributed brands. Opus Technologies' decision, taken earlier this year, to pursue its own distribution strategy, has prompted DMi to specify a networking system requirement with the closest possible fit to the capabilities of the latest systems and products from its distributed brands. The evolving networking capabilities of products from these manufacturers provides the increasing potential for p

UK - Cooper Parry, have originated and led a £12 million buy-out of Datapath Limited. Cooper Parry's Corporate Finance team advised the shareholders throughout the transaction which saw venture capitalists Foresight invest £3 million, with NatWest providing debt through their Structured Debt Solutions team.

Datapath, which is based in Derby, supplies graphics cards and other products used mainly to control large screen videowall displays. More than 50% of all videowalls installed worldwide use Datapath equipment. With revenues close to £10 million and growing at 30% plus per annum, the company looks well-positioned to build on its market leading position.

Steve De'Ath, director of Datapath, commented: "This investment underlines the company's market leading position. It also gives us a platform to attract talented individuals and strengthen the managemen

UK - Helen & Douglas House held their most successful ever fundraising event on Saturday 15 September whilst commemorating their 25th anniversary, over £155,000 was raised on the night with Stage Electrics supplying a full sound system, AV equipment and technical crew.

Based on a circus theme, the ball was held in a stunning big top tent with a helter skelter built right into the twinkling roof. Magicians, 'birds of paradise', juggling stilt walkers, a carousel and the Honda Racing F1 Team simulator car added to the fun, while celebrity guests including Trinny Woodall, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Alex James (Blur), Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Richard Hammond and James May added the glamour.

The complete sound system for the event supplied by Stage Electrics included the PA in the Big Top utilising Function1 and L-Acoustics equipment, background sound reinforcement in the bar a

UK - XL Video UK is supplying Maximo Park's lighting and visuals designer Stevie Marr with Barco MiTrix screen and Catalyst digital media server for the band's current UK and European tour, marking stage three of a progressive video/lighting design process which commenced at the start of 2006.

For Marr, an enthusiastic exponent of video and lighting 'convergence', the MiTrix added a new edge and depth to the show as well as providing surfaces for his custom created video clips. These were all sorted on and played back through two layers of the Catalyst.

The account was handled for XL by Jo Beirne and Phil Mercer who comment, "Stevie always comes up with new and refreshing ideas, and it's been great to see Maximo Park's video design evolve. He knows what he wants and is great to work with on all levels."

The MiTrix are arranged in seven rectangular columns of variou

Finland - High End Systems has announced a new partner agreement with Soundata Oy in Helsinki to supply HES products to Finland's entertainment and television markets. Soundata is active in a variety of fields including lighting, AV contracting, live sound and studio technology.

Juhani Vitikka, Soundata CEO and partner for Soundata says, "We are excited about representing High End Systems products in Finland, as the country is known for a unique variety of entertainment - perfect for High End's unique products."

Soundata showed off the new product line at Audiovisual 2007 in Helsinki. The international trade fair is the most important professional event of the year in the Nordic region for professionals, designers and decision-makers in the audiovisual and corporate event markets. Soundata's booth demonstrated Road Hog and Wholehog 3, as well as Showgun and DL.2.

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UK - Tyco Traffic & Transportation (Tyco T&T), part of Tyco Fire & Integrated is building on its success in audio visual systems for local government with the design and installation of a new generation AV system to enhance communications during meetings held by Wycombe District Council.

The integrated system provided by Tyco T&T includes new large screen displays, projection equipment and desktop displays. The entire system is linked using the latest Cat 6 network cabling which is designed to minimise the amount of cabling and help make the system easy to expand and future-proof.

The system includes a total of 11 screens including two large screen projectors and pull-down screens at each side of the large general chamber. The large screen projectors can show two different AV presentations simultaneously.

Tyco T&T have also provided two large 42" LCD panels in the publi

Denmark - Martin Professional has named Mats Karlsson as technology manager for the company's Visual Solutions business unit. Karlsson has more than 25 years of industry experience in lighting, and more recently in video, and joins Martin from Barco where he served as product manager for the company's successful line of creative LED products.

Karlsson's' role at Martin will be to strengthen the technical and marketing foundation for products within Martin Visual Solutions, a business unit of the company created earlier this year to expand business opportunities and capitalise on the growing popularity of LED video screens. Martin recently introduced its LC Series of LED video screens, a semi-transparent, modular system of lightweight LED panels.

"Creative video and visualization is the new frontier and challenge for the lighting market, in the same way that automated ligh

USA - The Venetian Hotel Resort and Casino in Las Vegas recently expanded its TAO Asian Bistro and Nightclub by transforming its west side pool deck - used during the day as a European-style bathing pool - into an outdoor nightclub.

FBP Group, owned by Frank Heinrich and Bob Athey, were contracted to produce a first-class A/V design and turned to lighting designer Matthew Paupst to design the lighting scheme. "TAO Las Vegas came to FBP Group to produce a world-class outdoor nightclub that was stylish and able to be used for its dual purpose," comments Matthew Paupst. "The main goal was to create an environment that would not be visually obtrusive during the day and at night would morph into a nightclub, entertaining a few thousand people each weekend."

Paupst reports, "I chose the MAC 250 Entours because of their size, light output, and reliability. Wh

UK - Christie's powerful HD18K projectors have made their UK debut - displaying a digitally re-mastered Indian classic film to audiences gathered in Trafalgar Square.

The 75-minute long movie was accompanied by a specially written score by musician, producer and composer Nitin Sawhney. He also conducted the London Symphony Orchestra who performed it live.

The event was a special screening organised by Film London in conjunction with the BFI, the Mayor's Office, the Barbican UK Film Council and Cambridge Film Festival. "The occasion was absolutely made for the HD18Ks," said QED director, Paul Wigfield. "These powerful 3-chip DLP 17,500 ANSI lumen projectors offer high output and crisp images from 10-bit processing in native HD resolution."

Festival Director Tony Jones was determined that the quality of the projection onto the 50ft x 25ft giant inflatable s

Germany - Since 15 October Potsdam university officially has a new lecture room and seminar building at the Griebnitzsee campus and now boasts seven lecture halls with a total of 1790 seats and 18 seminar rooms with 900 seats. The biggest lecture hall of the university with 800 seats can be divided into two smaller halls with 400 seats each. In the new building are located the faculty for economic and social sciences, the juristic faculty and the language centre.

The AV design is by Zibell-Willner & Partner, Berlin, and was executed by Pro Video Handelsges. The main lecture hall for up to 800 people was equipped in twith activeQSA 200 K.M.E. loudspeakers. The systems include the Remote Control Module (RCM) developed by K.M.E for remote monitoring and remote controlling of the self-powered speakers.

In the rear zone of the lecture hall passive QS 1082 with 100 V transformers as

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