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14 March 2016

Medialon has been selected by XYZ Cultural Technology, a Canadian-based integrator and AV designer company, to be the main controller of the entire indoor part of the museum.

Visitors start their journey by entering the Glacier Exploration Station where the magic of sound, video, lighting, and multimedia technologies transport them into a virtual expedition.

One Medialon Manager V5 Pro license controls four different timeline shows where several tasks run simultaneously in the Glacier Exploration Station. Thanks to Medialon Manager Panel, the free touch panel design software, XYZ Cultural Technology has created friendly-user touch panel interfaces to be used on Red

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14 March 2016

Following eight consecutive years of supplying elements of lighting equipment and staff, this was the first year that Stage Electrics was the sole supplier of all the lighting for the New Years Eve event for Jack Morton Worldwide. This year's event stepped up a level with lighting designer Durham Marenghi making use of 14 Clay Paky Alpha Beams 700s, which were programmed by associate designer Paul Cook, to form 50ft tall digital count-down clock, on the Shell building façade, achieved using some precise indexing of the oblong slot Gobos.

The cues were triggered by a satellite time code via MIDI into the console, which set the stage, attracting over half a million New Year revellers, who again braved the cold to usher in the New Year as

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14 March 2016

Yan Fook Church chose Vision for its HD capabilities, modular design, and quantity of outputs allowing the ability to air content to various destinations throughout the church.

"Vision's modular design will allow Yan Fook Church to expand and upgrade in the future," said Koon Shing Lo, senior technical manager, Yan Fook Church. "Plus, we now only require two operators to run Vision giving us the extra resources to also do post production."

"Ross has long been a popular choice for houses of worship all over the world," said David Ross, CEO, Ross Video. "Vision offers reliability and flexibility that churches need in an affordable package."

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14 March 2016

Projected onto two sites, Senate House and the adjacent Old School, and the end of Kings College Chapel and the next door Gibbs Building, a combination of PIGI and video projection technologies supplied by E/T/C London were utilised in three separate but related animated shows. These expressed elements of the University's dynamic science and research programmes as art in large format scrolling images.

Ashton was asked back to Cambridge to produce the shows following the success of his work 12 months ago for the Opening Ceremony. This time, the Cambridge 800 Committee decided to expand the scale and scope of the projections and incorporate the Kings Colle

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14 March 2016

The FR12 Remote Light Source (RLS) concept relocates the lamps from the projector to a rack-mount enclosure up to 30m away from the projector head. Light from the 19-inch rack-mounted RLS illuminates the projector head via an innovative Liquid Light Guide (LLG). The result is a compact, ruggedized, virtually maintenance-free projector head with completely silent operation. There are no limits on installation orientation and lamp maintenance is entirely simplified.

"At the forefront of creating some of the most exciting technologies and innovative products, projectiondesign has made history by producing innovative projectors that are compact, bright and h

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14 March 2016

Exhibiting with Dutch distributor TM Audio, Renkus-Heinz will showcase the full Iconyx Digitally Steerable Array series, in the shape of the recently launched high-power, portable IC Live, and the new IC Live fixed installation version that's been added to the product line due to high demand from consultants and integrators.

To illustrate the ease and flexibility of RHAON software, a RHAON-networked Iconyx IC16R will be controlled and monitored with a simple laptop for live demonstrations and questions.

These products are particularly suited to accompanying large scale digital signage in public spaces, as the digital beam steering allows sound to accompany video in a highly controllable area - and the unit's slender column shape is a great benefi

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14 March 2016

"The producer, Lars Josefsson at PolyVision Mediaslottet, is really the creator of the whole media centre. My task was to make his vision come true", says Per Sigemark, project manager from PolyVision Teknik.

The UNT combines a media centre and conference facilities - both controlled by a Medialon Manager PRO Show and Media Control software.

The visit starts with a multitude of pictures regarding local, national and international events. From the 7x10m dome-shape ceiling, visitors are surrounded by moving pictures and sound. The ceiling changes colour from deep blue to dark red thanks to LED lights installed behind the dom

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14 March 2016

"We are fortunate to be in a growth mode," said Jeremy Scheinberg, COO of Alcorn McBride. "Our customers were the reason 2009 was such a great year for us and Tommy's elevation to sales manager ensures more personalised attention for our loyal client base while the company expands. Tommy really cares about our customers. Not only does he remember everyone he meets, he's tru

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14 March 2016

RFW, owned and managed by Fragille Wade, formerly of Dubai-based Protec, has tied up with SES to sell its products to an already extensive client base in the region.

Fragille Wade commented: "Having worked with SES's products for many years, I was pleased to be able to represent them in the region and supply a market that has an insatiable appetite for quality distribution equipment. There has been a significant gap in the market here for some time which we hope to be able to fill with a wide range of Power Products which we will hold in stock at our new warehouse in Dubai. We will be adding to our product range over the coming months and will be a one stop shop for the production and e

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14 March 2016

The EuroHedge Awards celebrate hedge fund managers' achievements throughout Europe. Over 800 managers, investors, and other industry professionals turned out in force for the occasion.

Capitol House Productions installed two strips of bezel-less Infinite Plasmas, the first ran down the hotel's entrance walkway to The Great Room and the second greeted guests once inside. The plasmas displayed event and sponsor branding to catch the eyes of guests as they walked into the event.

Eight new Infinite 4230R Plasmas were used for the event, sourced from PSCo, which has recently updated its videowall fleet with £100,000 of new screens and accessories.

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14 March 2016

"We are excited to take part in of one of the largest AV tradeshows in Europe, and to introduce the PST-6i-b to our peers at ISE," said Myron Linde, Daktronics mobile and modular manager. "In addition to being the lightest portable LED video panel of its kind, the PST-6i-b uses a high-contrast design to offer viewers surreal image quality and deep, vivid colours."

The newest member of Daktronics' PST product line, the PST-6i-b panel, weighs in at 52kg/sq.m and joins a pair of other newly unveiled PST products, the PST-12 SMD (50kg/sq.m) and the PST-10 SMD (57

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Artist Tom Wexler explains: "It was the railways which first created the need for standardised time across the country, so we came up the idea of an exhibition based on time, place and distance. We placed the 13 screens across the curved roof of the hall, with a thermal imaging camera at each end. The cameras captured people's movement and a few seconds of each person was looped. This was then shown on each screen in turn until the two people's images met in the middle.

"We specified the G-LEC transparent frames because we didn't want the screens to be too 'heavy' o

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14 March 2016

PlusPAK is a new hardware and software suite comprised of four components - a new Universal Output Card (UOC), the system's new Multiviewer (MVR), a Digital Video Effects Card (DVE) and new software capable of controlling 2.5 M/Es from the compact FSN-150 Controller. Because contemporary presentations are often more complex than single screen, single output, single format shows, PlusPAK answers that requirement with a purpose-built solution.

When combined with the FSN Series' plug-in NIC (8-channel Native Input Card), UIC (2-channel Universa

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14 March 2016

FNAC wanted full HD video and image-quality digital sign displays installed across all 80 retail stores in France for in-store promotions including ticket sales, TV sales and other products. The company also wanted the displays managed on a digital signage network to provide simple, easy updates on a daily basis.

TMM Communication was selected for the project because they differentiated their proposal by offering BrightSign players with a solid-state platform. The solid-state des

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14 March 2016

Genielux allows users around the world to locate pro video, audio, and lighting rental and sales inventory from companies who sign up online and place their inventory to Genielux. The application features proprietary code that can identify model numbers regardless of format, which was specifically written for Genielux. "We spent 10 months developing code that can match what an iPhone user may type in and match them correctly to our vendors. We're amazed how accurate the results are," said Michael Zinman, president of The Zinman Co.

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14 March 2016

With a major assist from partners GoVision, Daktronics, CorporateMagic and Todd Events, the committee is generating buzz with its Texas-size booth modelled after the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. The exhibition space features scaled-down replicas of the stadium's two massive support arches and its iconic centre-hung LED screen.

GoVision, one of the nation's premier suppliers of turnkey mobile LED units and customized modular LED walls, constructed a 5ft x 10ft central screen using 14 modular Daktronics PST-6i-b LED panels. Additional Daktronics PST-12HD L

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Tour lighting was provided by Axxis Inc, with lighting design, direction and programming by Nick West. Video was provided by Big Picture.

When it came to specifying lighting control for the tour, the Jands Vista was Nick's desk of choice. Nick is an experienced user of the Vista range, switching between a rented full-size T2 console for tours and his own S1 control surface for fly dates or using as a wing, which

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14 March 2016

Recipient of a PLASA Award for Innovation at last year's show, the Vision finally offers a master control that can be the interface between lighting consoles, media servers, MIDI / SMPTE devices and many other show system components. With minimal set-up time, its large touch screen mappable buttons allow it to quickly navigate to and trigger all other devices. As a result, programming a show is faster and easier, says the company.

For real live control, by connecting the Vision to a favourite lighting console, users can directly navigate into their cue-lists / executor lists, and add all kinds of new functions to their show.

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14 March 2016

A full 12,000 people were able to follow the building's inauguration ceremony recently, thanks to the high-quality live images on the screens.

While the building was still at the planning stage, the UCKG church asked Questek Customer Care (QCC) to supply the audio-visual installation for their new cathedral. QCC's task was to create a set-up which would afford all congregation members a good view of the preacher's face - no matter where they were sitting. Since most services are held during the daytime, a further challenge was to project quality images in ambient light.

QCC chose dnp's Supernova Screens primarily because of their ability to provide quality images in high ambient ligh

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14 March 2016

Al Parkinson, the production manager for The Power of Yes, explains, "We knew that we wanted to make this show look as high tech as possible and while we'd used projection before, we'd never used LED screens. We used the internet to research a number of companies' products and then invited them to demonstrate them.

"During the show, some of the time, the screens were

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14 March 2016

Paradigm reports that sales manager Mick Perrone and operations manager, Steve Pratt have joined the main board with immediate effect and are appointed as directors. This expands the working board, led by managing director Paul Wood to five members. Greg Jeffreys remains chairman and Polly Whittaker as finance director. At the same time Ross Hugo has been appointed as a non-executive director.

Meanwhile Jeffreys has ascended through the InfoComm ranks. His academic work on projected image quality and associated metrics gradually merged into InfoComm's pioneering work on quality standards and best practices. InfoComm is now an accredited ANSI/ISO Standards Development Organisa

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14 March 2016

The Christie MicroTiles system represents a step forward in large-format display technology, offering "superior colour and image reproduction, the widest possible viewing angles, and a near absence of seams on display walls, with only a 1mm gap between the tiles," says the company.The groundbreaking LED- and DLP-based system is designed for long, reliable commercial use in public areas, with no lamps or other consumable parts to replace. The LED light engine, a key component of MicroTiles, is rated at 65,000 hours to half brightness usage, or nearl

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14 March 2016

"The LX505 and LX605 are full-featured, high-lumen products with exceptional price-performance," says Christie business products product manager, Frank Anzures. "They are designed for flexibility and ease of use with the latest in LCD technology and new networking capabilities. With the added four-corner digital keystone correction function, users have a wide range of projector positioning while still maintaining a perfectly square display."

The Christie LX505 is a 5000-lumens 3LCD projector for users in higher education, fixed installation,

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14 March 2016

Darya Nikolskaya, director of 360Project said: "We started the implementation of this new form of classical concert performance, accompanied by large-scale projections, in cooperation with MMDM and the Moscow City Symphony Orchestra - 'Russian Philharmonic' - some years ago when we created the visual background for a series of concerts for children. Last year we showed in the same format Carmina Burana. The concept of such pe