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Together with RTC, Zero 88's distributor for Austria, Zero 88 showed the Frog 2, Leap Frog 48/96 and Jester series as well as the new Master Touch Screen for the Chilli dimmers. Zero 88's powerful 3D visualisation software Light Converse, which played a big role within the lighting design contest, had a lot of very positive feedback during the show, says the company.

A highlight of the event was the lighting design contest. This was the first time a lighting design competition had been arranged at the show and was accomplished in co-operation with the OETHG, DTHG and RTC.

Applications for the competit

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Sourcing creative and innovative solutions for the theatres and production teams, Sunbaba's portfolio of materials are used for drapes, scenery and set designs across professional and amateur dramatics.

The new Block Out material allows its users to create two different images, one a printed image and the other a backlit silhouette. The material is first printed with the images that are to be rear blocked, then tested on a light box to ensure the image backlights perfectly, creating silhouette images when night falls.

Sunbaba's technical director, Trevor booth explains: "Block Out is a revolutionary solution that will be ideal to create theatre backdrops. We can use this technique and material to create 'night and day' effect wi

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A PSL Open Day provides an opportunity to discuss event production at every level in a calm and unhurried environment, says the company. There's a chance to evaluate the latest technology in the AV presentation industry, such as powerful new tools for visual display in widescreen format and HD projection.

PSL specialist John Montague will be showing visitors how to maximize the impact of their presentation material on a full 20' wide screening area, providing accessible explanations of what cutting-edge content generation devices like the Hippotizer media server can bring to the party.

PSL has been investing heavily in new display equipment, many items of which will

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Medialon Manager V5 can control any audiovisual equipment using any protocol and network. Being software based it integrates perfectly with IT, opening a wide range of new applications, says the company.

Medialon Manager is hardware independent and connects to controlled devices via industrial hardware as well as conventional AV control hardware such as AMX. Medialon Manager can run in hidden mode where only custom designed interface are visible or in user mode allowing live edition. It comes with free Panel software for custom touch screen design.

Medialon Scheduler is a Windows based application to schedule any type of events programmed with Medialon Manager Show & Media Control software.

Show Control Machine PRO has been designed with critical application in mind and every detail has b

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The event, which forms part of BiG - Make It Your Business, provided 180 teams from 18 schools and two colleges in Sheffield with the chance to pitch for a share of £100,000 to support enterprise in their school, as well as a five day trip to the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA.

Each team of budding entrepreneurs received £25 to start and run their business over a six month period and generate as much profit as possible with the most successful teams making the City Hall final.

More than 20 awards were presented at the event with Myers Grove School taking the ove

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Company News - In the entertainment technology industry's latest high-profile acquisition, Barco has announced that it has bought High End Systems Inc, the well-known manufacturer of automated luminaires, digital lighting and lighting controls, for a total value of USD 55 million. "With the merging of two strong industry players, this acquisition reinforces Barco's leadership position in the fast converging video and lighting segmen

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SPS has worked on the IoD flagship event for five consecutive years and utilised its extensive experience to provide the bulk of the staging and production elements including the impressive stage set, screen content and opening video. The SPS creative team also worked with many of the speakers to develop screen content to support their presentations.

A 14m x 6m custom-built screen provided the main focus of the set, with imagery provided by two projectors to achieve a 45,000 lumen image with full 2K HD resolution. This screen was utilised in many ways throughout the day. "For the opening video we wanted to highlight the calibre of t

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Fredd Causevic, CEO of Impact, said: "With the market for videoconferencing, in particular, growing at a rate of more than 25 per cent, it is exactly the right time to look to extend our geographic reach.

"Our clients here in the UK and Europe are increasingly asking for the same level of service and support for their offices throughout the world. The Global Presence Alliance is all about promoting best p

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Headlining at this year's show is the introduction of the FLM HD20 (1,980 x 1,080 resolution, 20,000 centre lumens) and FLM R22+ (1,400 x 1,050 resolution, 22,000 centre lumens), two new high brightness additions to the FLM projector family. Together with the existing features of the FLM series, these additions incorporate new technology which ensures minimal maintenance costs, increased light efficiency and reduction of overall power consumption, says the company.

During development of the new projectors, Barco also designed a new universal lamp housing for the whole family of FLM projectors. This new lamp housing offers advantages over the previous housings such as increased brightness with less power consumption, enhanced image quality and reduction of the overal

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A highly regarded designer and manufacturer of high quality point source speaker systems, with numerous patents to his name, Andrews' landmark developments include the hugely successful Flashlight and Floodlight systems, and more recently the distinctive Funktion One Resolution Series.

Andrews headlines a growing programme of educational presentations at the show, which include a number of exciting new initiatives and partnerships. There will be a strong focus on industry technologies, with several sessions addressing existing and emerging audio, AV and lighting technologies and how to maximise their application in t

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With a raft of new legislation in place to help protect the public and ensure all are treated equally, most notable of which is the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), special consideration has to be given to safety in a leisure centre. PEL Services installed a number of key assistance systems in Cotswold Leisure Cirencester including Personal Assistance buttons

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Innovation: PLASA goes for Gold
During consultation with the PLASA Awards for Innovation Judges after the 2007 PLASA Show, the judges expressed a desire to be able to more accurately reflect the levels of innovation seen in the products nominated for the Awards. Specifically, they were looking for a way to highlight those cases where a product truly delivered something strikingly new and innovative to the industry.

Roland Hemming, a highly-respected audio consultant and a regular on the PLASA Awards for Innovation j

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As part of five TV's plans to refresh and relaunch its pioneering news programme, which include recruiting high-profile news presenter Natasha Kaplinsky for the show, the broadcaster decided to rebrand the set with a completely new look.

Set designer Chris Webster produced the concept of backlit acrylic panels that could be lit to achieve a varied range of looks to suit the mood of a bulletin, whether based on a particular theme or time of day.

Sky News, producer of the show for five, has a policy of incorporating energy efficient lighting into its sets where technology provides a viable solution, so approached A.C. Lighting to supply an LED system which would also provide five with maximum creative opportunities

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The reciprocal nature of the agreement means that Aethra and Elmo will also collaborate on the development of a sophisticated and powerful line up of video conference solutions through the sharing core technologies.

Aethra has been utilizing the Elmo PTZ camera on its Vega X3 and X5 set top line since December 2007 and is confident that integrating the technology of the two companies will result in important developments, in particular for the Japanese market. By adding Aethra v

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"The Martin laser is one of the best units on the market," Barrand states. "I like the fact that it can run DMX, also from a laptop, and I like the small size of the unit."

Two Martin RGB 1.6 lasers are located on each side of the DJ booth in Ministry's infamous Box.

The RGB Laser 1.6 joins MoS London's existing Martin rig of MAC moving heads, Martin effect lights and Jem smoke machines. Martin Professiona

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To mark the release of their fourth album Third, the so-called trip-hop band from Bristol has been touring Europe with visual design that matches artist John Minton's creative concepts with PSL display technology.

Behind the stage, three separate projection screens are used in combination, with either three individual displays or as one large landscape. A multitude of small cameras, positioned all over the stage amongst the musicians, provide live footage, which is also processed as a feedback effect and relayed onto the screen.

Visual artist John Minton explains that he wanted to keep the

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Le Moulin à Images (The Image Mill), is a spectacle of imagery and sound created by media innovator and artist Robert Lepage and his team at Ex Machina, recalling the history of Quebec City.

Each evening at sundown the grain silos on the banks of Louise Basin in the Port of Quebec will be transformed into an immense projection screen measuring 657m long and 33m high - some 40 million pixels - revealing this stunning work.

E/T/C Paris is installing a total of 27 Christie Roadster S+20K DLP video projectors for the project. Onlyview, E/T/C's multi-media control platform, will handle the programming, transmission and broadcasting of thousands of spectacular images, anima

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The annual Rental & Staging Systems Awards, which recognize excellence in the design and production of new products, were held at InfoComm in Las Vegas last week. The awards for best new products in the rental and staging market, in which Barco's NX-4 won Best LED Product and DML-1200 won Best Lighting Product, were determined by a special Rental & Staging Systems Magazine readers' poll.

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The display, set up on 17th of May to mark World Refugee Day, came as the U.N. refugee agency reported a record 11.4 million people were driven from their home countries last year.

Organized by the UNHCR - UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Experience Darfur exhibition had white U.N. tents erected in the square and films of the UN work going on in Sudan and Chad were back projected on the windows and windshields of two Toyota vehicles.

Cinegel Silent Frost and Rosco's grey screen for rear projection were stuck on the inside of the windows and projectors were mounted inside the vehicles to provide images.

Cinegel Silent Frost is a relatively dense diffuse

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The cutting-edge technology at the Metro Future Store offers maximum customer convenience and information in order to provide a new shopping experience. Customers can scan their purchases while shopping and get information via interactive kiosk systems. If desired, the innovation guides - two mobile robots - show customers around and point out the technical innovations.

An eye-catcher at the Future Store is a Litefast Magic Display, a state-of-the-art digital 360° video display more than 2m in height. Rapidly spinning LEDs in a transparent cylinder create colourful moving pictures which seem to appear out of thin air.

In contrast to common flat

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Last year saw the introduction of the Hawk-Eye system at Wimbledon and Barco's OLite 612 LED screens were installed on No.1 Court to allow spectators to see the replays and judgment calls of the new electronic line-calling system.

Following the successful trial in 2007, the 122nd Championships at Wimbledon will see the traditional scoreboards on both courts replaced by full color LED displays. The di

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Grant Thomas, sales director for Batmink, explains: "It soon became obvious that although still images and video footage give a flavour of what this flooring system can deliver, there is absolutely no substitute for seeing the floor operating 'in the flesh'. With this in mind, we have decided to take a 6m x 6m floor on a tour of the UK to enable interested parties to come and have a look, see a demonstration of its motion graphics and text capabilities and discuss any questions they might have."

The floor will be in Glasgow, on Monday 11 August, Leeds on Tuesday 12 August, Donington Park on Wednesday 13 August and London on Thursday 14 August. For more information regarding venues and

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Last year's inaugural Award was won by Tony Andrews of Funktion One for his decades of dedication to the advancement of loudspeaker design.

The Nomination phase of the 2008 Gottelier Award is now open, and industry professionals worldwide are being asked to put forward the names of individuals who they believe should be considered for this year's award.

Following the nomination period, a shortlist of the leading nominees will then be ope

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Beccegato has extensive experience in the industry, previously owning his own creative agency called Sedicinoni SRL, based in Verona, Italy. There he also worked as senior designer and produced video graphics and other visualisations for events, business meetings and conventions, both in house and for other Italian communications agencies.

In his new role, Beccegato will be responsible for directing some of SPS's other graphic designers and taking the creative lead in corporate event projects. He will also be working alongside many of SPS's clients to establish briefs and to present and sell ideas.

Robin Coles, managing director at SPS commented, "Adding Jack to the team is a great boost to the creative arm of our