UK - XL Video supplied full video production including LED screens, cameras / PPU and control, IMAG projection system and crew to Madness's recent sold-out UK arena tour.

This capitalised on a high profile year for the band that included epic performances on top of Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Golden Jubilee - complete with stunning projections by XL Video onto the front of the building - and at the Olympic Games Closing Ceremony.

'Luton' Pete Hosier's stage and video design offered a mix of visual humour and slick aesthetics, based on a fusion of circus and theatricality, with sumptuous red drapes, gentle arcs and impressive animations and imagery.

XL's project managers were Jo Beirne and Phil Mercer, and crew chief and video director on the road was Toby Vogel, who was working for the production.

Hosier specified a large Stealth LED screen upstage, 30 panels wide by

The Netherlands - At Integrated Systems Europe 2013, Amsterdam, projection screen specialist dnp denmark enters the market for LCD panels by introducing InvisiBezel - an optical LCD panel cover that reduces bezels in multi-screen displays to 1mm.

The visible gap between neighbouring LCD panels is a classic problem with multi-screen displays. Even with so-called 'super-narrow bezel' panels, the gap between the screens is usually around 5mm.

Says dnp global sales & marketing manager, S°ren Kraemmergaard, "For more than 20 years we have used optical screen technology to boost the quality of projected images. Now we are using our optical know-how to give LCD multi-screen images a facelift."

InvisiBezel is an optical front cover that can be mounted on top of standard 'super narrow-bezel' LCD panels. The edges consist of prisms that optically stretch the pixels at th

USA / UK - Premier Mounts has confirmed a strategic alliance with Vogel's Products, the leading AV mount manufacturer in Europe.

Starting 1 February 2013, Vogel's will sell 18 selected Premier Mounts' products exclusively under the Vogel's brand in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia, not including the UK. All other Premier Mounts products will be available as before from Premier Mounts Europe.

Both Premier Mounts and Vogel's Products will be exhibiting at ISE 2013, and encourage those to visit both booths and meet the team.

Premier Mounts' booth is located in hall 4 stand S56, and Vogel's is located in the Central Hall, hall 1 at stand M45.

(Jim Evans)

UK - The latest UK arena leg of the successful Mumford & Sons Tour of Two Halves world tour featured 2,547 of XL Video's latest FX-200 product, together with three Pixled F11 LED screens, HD cameras / PPU and crew.

The versatile FX-200s were specified by lighting and visuals designer Ed Warren from Next Level Lights.

The small opaque plastic balls encase LED clusters and can be fitted together and configured to suit any design.

The band have been touring for the last three years with various different arrangements of tungsten lightsources over and around the stage as an integral part of the lighting rig.

Earlier in this tour, Warren introduced LED festoon lighting, going from the stage and reaching right out into the audience ... and he wanted to take this up another level and add another dynamic and adaptable lightsource to the mix - enter the FX-200.

He had seen

UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd.'s Video division has been appointed as an official UK dealer for the Blackmagic Design product range.

Black Magic Design's range of robust hardware and software products are designed to provide affordable, high quality editing workstation solutions. Products include hard disk recorders, input cards, production mixer / switchers, video & audio converters, monitoring and signal routing / distribution - all of which AC-ET now have access to.

The DVI Extender allows the extension of DVI-D connections to computer monitors via SDI cables, making it infinitely easier to connect computer displays anywhere. Multiple monitors can be connected using any 3Gb/s SDI router, and the DVI Extender also functions as a regular DVI to SD/HD-SDI video converter.

The DeckLink Duo is suitable for editors and developers using two completely independ

UK - Mood Media, a leading in-store media specialist, has helped Primark create an engaging and dynamic shopping environment in its Oxford Street flagship store, which opened in September. "Mood Media has been working with Primark to increase footfall in the top-end store and create a stronger brand experience," says the company.

"From the screens overhead at the main entrance, through the projections behind the counters, to the giant LED wall surrounding the lifts, Mood Media gives customers opportunities throughout their shopping experience to engage with the Primark brand. The aim was to create a slick, upmarket look, while keeping true to the building's roots and maintaining a common DNA with Primark's other European stores."

"The main feature of the store provided by Mood Media is the LED wall, the largest in the UK, which spans the area behind th

The Netherlands - LED screen specialist displayLED will be exhibiting the latest in LED screen technology at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), Amsterdam.

From 29-31 January 2013 the stand will be showcasing displayLED's digiLED MC & MK series, available in 5mm, 7mm, 10mm and 15mm. Over 8,000 of these lightweight LED modules have already been ordered by major AV rental companies, with users including Pete's Big TVs, Video Walltronics, CT UK, CT US, Ford Motor Company, Bruce Springsteen, Nike, Super Bowl, MVI Multivision, Kia Motor Company, Moo TV, Bloomberg, Blackberry and Black Entertainment Television (BET).

These modules bring a host of USPs and enable users to mix and match pixel pitches in the same screen. As well as being available in solid or mesh form (apart from the MK5), there are two mechanical versions, one which can produce curved screens and the standard straight s

UK - West Midlands-based video and production specialist Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) designed and built a high-impact interactive walk-in video effect for a large company party in Bristol at Motion nightclub - and also supplied video, media servers, content and projection equipment.

CPL was working for the event producers Bright Productions who commissioned the walk-in effect which was designed and engineered by CPL's project manager Nick Diacre.

It utilised 60 VersaTube LED battens, a Pandora's Box media server with customised html5 code and an iPad. The brief was based on the idea that the event became more energised as it filled up with guests, each one contributing to the 'full power' needed to get the party started.

People walked into a raw, stripped-back industrial style area, where each guest placed their hand on one of four iPad stations. A red scanner beam cased

Switzerland - Barco has confirmed Baranday as its distribution partner in Switzerland for Barco's projection and image processing products. Thanks to this new partnership Swiss resellers, system integrators and others will enjoy easier access to Barco's extensive projection product line and support services.

Barco and Baranday have built up a strong, successful relationship since 2006: the Swiss AV expert has been providing the local rental and staging market with Barco products for all those years. Signing this new agreement, Baranday will now also become the official Swiss distributor of projection products and image processing products for fixed installs, offering resellers, system integrators and mid-sized rental companies access to Barco's full range of projection and image processing products for business and events applications.

The new agreement with Baranday perfectly

The Netherlands - Next generation imaging from WolfVision - the new VZ-8light4 and VZ-8plus4 visualizers will be on show at ISE 2013.

WolfVision's VZ-8 Series Visualizers have become a worldwide standard in a large number of universities and enterprises in recent years, and the new fourth generation of this popular Visualizer series will be on show at this year's ISE 2013 in Amsterdam. The new units build on the success of the existing VZ-8 Series models and now come with an elegant redesigned housing, 14x optical zoom capability, and feature a superb native 1080p HD camera.

The new VZ-8light4 Visualizer provides all the standard features that every user requires. Besides the native 1080p HD resolution at 30 fps (frames per second), new features include a basic LAN port and HDMI input and output. With the optional 'Feature Pack' the VZ-8light4 can be upgraded to include infrar

The Netherlands - Advantech has announced the cooperation with Klocktornet AB and the compatibility of ARK-DS262 with DISE digital signage software. DISE is a digital signage software company that brings content to viewers with high quality, dynamic playback, control and reliability. With DISE the creative boundaries are set free just as the possibilities to connect and play out any given data at any given time over any given number of screens and of course all this in synchronized mode when desired.

DISE has successfully certified Advantech's advanced graphics digital signage media player ARK-DS262. The very compact (200 x 119 x 30 mm) ARK-DS262 signage solution is an Intel OPS (Open Pluggable Specification) digital signage platform that helps standardize the design and development of media player and display. Development, installation, management, maintenance and upgrade are e

The Netherlands - Christie will be running free seminars on their stands at ISE (Hall1, stands H40, H46 and H50). The seminars, given by Christie's product management team based in Kitchener, Ontario will focus on three frequently discussed display applications.

On 29th January, John Stark, senior director of collaborative visual solutions will speak about content control and management across remote workspaces. 30th January sees Christie address wi-fi standards and projection technology in corporate environments with an address by George Tsintzouras, senior director product management of business products.Both seminars will be delivered in English, last approx. 30 minutes and anyone interested should arrive at the Christie on-stand reception five minutes before the designated start time.

29 / 12.30 -Content Management across remote workspaces

30 /10.00 - Wi-fi standards and

The Netherlands - The new Christie WeatherAll Series of LCD outdoor flat panels makes its global debut at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 29 January, setting the standard for outdoor LED-backlit LCD technology.

The first of the WeatherAll Series is the 55-inch Christie FHD551-W, a professional grade Full HD (1920 x 1080 resolution) solution designed to perform in a wide range of applications including outdoor sporting venues, outdoor live events, architectural applications, entertainment parks, public displays, the hospitality and resort industry, transportation services, and numerous other outdoor environments not typically applicable with standard LCD panels.

"Christie is at the forefront in offering what customers need and the WeatherAll Series is designed to be the clear choice in an outdoor weatherproof display solution," sa

USA - Avolites Media's Ai Media Server has powered a spectacular 3D video mapping experience at one of Las Vegas's biggest New Year's Eve parties.

The fast, intuitive Ai Media Server - which has become an integral engine for some of the world's most ambitious visual events - was used to map the graphics projected onto three giant structures for the 2000-strong party at the luxury Aria Resort to welcome in 2013.

"I chose to use the Ai server because of its ability to work with 3D mapping and to handle multiple projection devices internally," says Vickie Claiborne, product specialist, lighting & digital media for PRG, which supplied all of the lighting, video, truss, as well as lighting design and show staff for the VIP event. "Add these groundbreaking features into a media server that can be controlled either independently or via a lighting console, and you've go

The Netherlands - As a founding ISE exhibitor, Christie will again occupy a large, and intuitive multi-zone site at ISE 2013. Marking the exhibition's tenth anniversary the Christie production 'village' will combine stands H40, H46 and H50 inside Hall 1 into an ergonomically presented product showcase. The display boasts a brand new projection mapping façade created especially for the show.

There will be a heavy focus on market education and the stand will incorporate a dedicated technical service meeting space, manned by Christie certified engineers, where free consultation will be offered to all delegates, who will be apprised of the full extent of Christie's pro AV support services. This will be boosted by a dedicated seminar theatre, surrounded by videowall and MicroTiles Interactive zones, the presentation space for a new outdoor LCD flat panel LCD and a 1-chip DLP gallery

Russia - St. Petersburg-based integrator Ascreen, dnp denmark's premium dealer in Russia (and dnp Partner of the Year 2012), has designed and implemented a major AV system upgrade at the St Petersburg Court House, using the Danish company's solutions.

The building's main conference hall seats 350 people, and ensuring that they all get a good view was the installers' key concern. The solution they chose was a Supernova Infinity screen measuring 5500mm x 3094mm, made of the standard 08-85 material to achieve the highest image possible, and driven by two Panasonic PT-DW100 10000 ANSI lumen projectors working in 'dot-by-dot' mode.

"We chose the screen size and material to give everyone a bright, clear image, and deliver the high contrast you need for viewing material on video," explains Ascreen brand manager, Oleg Gukov.

In two areas of the courthouse strong ambient li

UK - Crestron UK has announced expansion in Scotland with two new appointments; Alistair Kelly as commercial account manager and Peter Brown as business development manager. They will be key members of Crestron's expanding UK team, based in Scotland.

As commercial account manager Kelly will be supporting reseller partners and training programmes, and provide end users with a dedicated solution for their commercial needs. He joins Crestron with a good knowledge of its products and solutions, having worked for over five years at an AV conferencing distributor. He says "I am looking forward to joining a market leader and such a forward thinking company. In my previous role I was in the AV industry dealing with products for a distributer, so I have a good knowledge of Crestron's solutions and the market. I am looking forward to extending upon this knowledge and developing it fu

The Netherlands - Crestron will introduce the European market to its Integrated by Design solutions in Amsterdam during ISE 2013. Crestron solutions enable global monitoring, management and control of AV, energy, voice & data, lighting, security, room scheduling, and HVAC on a single platform to maximise energy savings, lower operational costs and increase productivity. ISE attendees will have the opportunity to experience the fully-functional integrated building environment live at the show.

"No one is building schools, hospitals, hotels or office spaces that aren't energy efficient, networked and digital," says Robin van Meeuwen, VP of sales and marketing at Crestron International. "While the various technologies and systems may be on the network, they all run separately. Our clients want and expect all systems on the network to work together in an intelligent w

Israel/USA - Continuing its strategy of delivering creative AV Signal Management solutions to customers around the world, Kramer Electronics reports that it has entered into a licence agreement with ComQi.

Kramer Electronics is a leading manufacturer of high-quality analogue and digital audio, video and computer signal management products for the ProAV industry. ComQi (formed from the merger of Minicom Digital Signage and EnQii) is a leading digital in-venue media management company.

The agreement provides Kramer Electronics with exclusive manufacturing, sales and marketing rights for ComQi's (MiniCom Digital Signage) media distribution products, and allows Kramer to provide an end-to-end digital media solution encompassing media distribution, network management, content management and proof-of-performance, on various digital signage platforms, such as mobile web and computer

UK - Award winning creative AV design and installation specialist Sarner ended 2012 on a high note with yet another industry award to add to its trophy cabinet...and this time it was for a project that was designed 12 years ago.

Proving the adage that the old ones are the best; Valhalla, Blackpool Pleasure Beach's most iconic ride, has been voted one of the best in Europe more than a decade after it first opened. The world's biggest indoor dark ride was given the honour at the European Star Awards after a panel of International experts voted it one of the best on the Continent.

Valhalla, which takes riders on a Viking journey through fire, water, snow, thunder and lightning, has enjoyed longevity thanks to Sarner's initial creativity and diversity in combining a white knuckle flume ride with theatrical dynamics of powerful storyline sequences. Sarner conceived the masterplan d

UK - Continuing a successful long-running relationship, XL Events has once again supplied projection, controls and additional screens for the high-octane Live Action Arena at the annual Autosport International show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham UK.

The Live Action Arena stages live racing demonstrations and stunt shows every day for the duration of the popular racing-themed show, which is named after the UK's most popular weekly auto racing magazine.

To ensure the crowd could enjoy all the action wherever they sat, XL Events, working closely with event production company, Network Productions, as well as production director Malcolm Forbes, supplied a 90m wide by 9m high front projection using six stacks of Barco projectors.

Each stack included one of XL's new Barco HDF-W26 26k projectors on top of a Barco FLM HD20, which gave a total output of 276,000 lumens

The Netherlands - ISE 2013 saw record numbers of exhibitors and visitors. The show's final total of 44,151 registered attendees represents an 8% increase on 2012's world record of 40,869. Just under 900 exhibitors - also a record for ISE - occupied all 12 halls of the Amsterdam RAI from 29-31 January, with most reporting a brisk three days of business involving a healthy mix of new and established contacts.

On Monday 28 January, ISE celebrated its 10th edition with a widely lauded opening keynote address by renowned cyber-illusionist Marco Tempest, followed by a 10th Birthday Party at which some of ISE's founding exhibitors - those companies that have supported all 10 shows since Integrated Systems Europe began in Geneva in 2004 - were honoured in a special presentation. The celebrations were preceded by three pre-show conferences and over 1,200 people attended the Monday events

USA - Production Resource Group, L.L.C. (PRG) is pleased to announce that Mbox Studio, a software-only media server application, is now available for purchase. A compact version of the popular Mbox media server, this product can be easily installed and operated on a user-supplied Intel-based Apple Mac computer (Intel processor, OSX 10.6.7 and higher).

Mbox Studio, with fewer parameters and less complex operations, offers substantial functionality and versatility. It operates identically to the full Mbox in both movie playback, effects, and in transition functions. Designed primarily for playback of SD content, it can also handle HD content. It offers eight playback layers and a fully functional pixel mapping toolset. A free demo content library, available as a separate download, can be used as a starting point for content creation with Mbox Studio.

Mbox Studio Version 3.6 is t

UK - XL Events supplied video production - including high powered projection system, control, screen management and crew - for the 2013 National Television Awards, broadcast live on ITV from London's O2 Arena.

Working for producers Indigo Television, the event was project managed for XL by Paul Wood. XL has been involved in the event - this was its thirteenth year - since 2005, in which time the production video elements have expanded significantly.

This year, the stage and set was designed by Wieder Design from Munich, well known for their work on German Idol, X-Factor and a myriad of other high profile TV extravaganzas.

It consisted of a large upstage projection screen measuring 11 x 6m, surrounded by four smaller screens - two at 6 x 3m and two at 5 x 3m.

The large screen used four of XL's new Barco HDF W26 26K projectors. Each of the outer screens was fed by a pair of

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