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The entire range of Elpro Concept products now also comes with a five year limited warranty to match the high quality of the products. The Tensioned Elpro Concept has a tab-tensioning system for a perfectly flat screen surface with the new Smooth Roll Technology: A patent pending roller technology to keep your screen perfectly flat.

"The new Elpro Concept range of Projecta is perfect for every installation where the case of the projection screen remains in sight," said Melinda von Horvath, Sr. director of sales and marketing, EMEA. "The new five year limited warranty for this entire range is to express our confidence in the

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The look and size of the show was ambitious. Caslin's pre-recorded content was mixed with live camera feeds, directed by Steve Price, and broadcast across three portrait hung Flyer 12 touring LED screens positioned centre stage. In addition, two portrait I-Mag screens, also using Flyer 12, were hung either side of the stage taking care of the live camera close ups of Jessie J. All screens were provided from CT's inventory in London.

Over 300 of Barco MiStrips se

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"We are delighted to have the opportunity to transform and bring these beautiful buildings to life to celebrate the festive season", says Kain Jones, TDC's special projects manager. "TDC are the video projection experts who work behind the VIVID festival so are familiar with lighting up and transforming Australia's most famous landmarks."

In total, TDC supplied a total of over 30 high brightness Barco digital video projectors incorporating Barco's latest 26,000 lumen HD projectors, in addition to Barco 22K and 20K projectors along with all control and media server equipment and expert technical support.

"TDC's painsta

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Immersive has become part of Partizan's 'Darkroom' stable, an imprint of the company which offers creative, integrated and digital production through a variety of bespoke platforms including: immersive and experiential events, app design and activation alongside brand partnered short films and online content. Collaborating with clients to develop both their consumer interaction and engagement Partizan works seamlessly across fashion, film, events, and digital content.

Immersive will initially be bringing its expertise in 'experiential marketing' to the company's repertoire.

"A mutual friend introduced us, and the rest fell seamlessly into place," explains Immersive

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Tempest HUSH enclosures make it possible to use even the largest - and noisiest - cinema projectors inside, in complete silence. Whether a meeting room, classroom, live theatre or boothless cinema, Tempest has a HUSH enclosure for every application, virtually eliminating projector noise without having to build a projection booth. All Tempest enclosures are compliant with relevant European standards.

"Whether inside or ou

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Translated onto architecture, the AniMotion Show is a pioneering vehicle for art, music and digital technology. The AniMotion Show unites art and music in real time. Paintings unfold in front of the audiences, akin to a live storyboard in which music plays the role of the script. This mix of live painting combined with the technical wizardry of projection mapping and live music from some of the world's top virtuosos created an incredible feast for all the senses.

When artist Maria Rud approached projection and digital art

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CPL's project managers Nick Diacre and Jimmy Smith worked closely with producer Ansy Oswin from Bright Productions and his team to help realize the zany and original upside-down production design concept which had a great impact on guests.

Motion was divided into three areas based on a house for the occasion. The first one was outside representing the 'garden'; the main area of the club was an inverted 'front room' with everything hanging from the ceiling ... with the buffet laid out in the third area which was the 'kitchen'.

Over 1000 guests joined the celebrations, many in full fancy dress, entering the main space to be greet

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Fulford Sound & Communications Services specialises in the provision of professional services to the industry for custom audio visual systems for museums, theme parks, visitor centres and retail applications. Gavin bought the company from founder Bill Fulford in 1996, and later took time out from the company to gain wider industry experience, working for a number of AV industry specialists including Electrosonic. He returned to Fulford in 2008, since when the company has grown and developed to the point where it i

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For rental staging applications including concerts, conventions and other events where visuals are a vital component, end users will see the Q Series' difference when blending and warping images from multiple projectors onto flat, curved, hexagonal, or spherical surfaces.

Usable in either single or dual-lamp mode, Christie Q Series is equipped with eClarity -advanced image processing that significantly enhances images by providing greater control over image sharpness, gloss and shading.

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The LED investment has been made with a range of suppliers including Shenzhen-based Unilumin Group Co and its subsidiary Radiant Opto-Elec Technology Co Ltd to purchase a series of LED products based on the latest technologies. In total more than 1200 m2 of LED products for the XL Video rental business will become available from February onwards.

The LED investment covers amongst others: State of the art 2.5mm high contrast LED; Super lightweight 3.9mm Utile LED; 18mm Magic Cube outdoor and indoor LED; 7mm blackface Magic Cube outdoor and indoor LED - the first of its kind in this segment; The latest innovation of 18mm Hybrid LED which combines LED screen with LED spotlights in the same panel. This invention

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The office's new address from January 2014 is: XL Video The Netherlands, Haparandaweg 67 E3, 1013 BD Amsterdam.

XL Video's new office will act as both a meeting point for clients and partners as well as its regular daily operations.

Houthavens is known as the new hotspot of Amsterdam's creative industry. The area harbours creative companies from different industries, from fashion to design to media. This will present XL Video with an inspiring environment to work in, hosted in a brand new office space, says the company.

Lucas Covers, group C.E.O. of XL Video comments, "2013 has been a year full of ne

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Bovingdon will head up both the internal and external sales teams. He joins from Micro Peripherals Ltd where he was head of education & AV solutions, bringing over 16 years' experience in the AV/IT channel having worked for distributors, manufacturers and resellers on the development of business growth within their respective verticals.

Commenting on his new role RBovingdon said, "PSCo is a pioneering, forward-thinking company and I especially admire that it knows its strengths and puts everything into producing outstanding results. This new role will be an exciting challenge, and I feel I've joined at the perfect time to drive sales efforts forward into 2014 and beyond. My strong background in AV will help improve PSCo's presence within the channel and grow customer relationships."

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This free all-day event at the Amsterdam Holiday Inn, is sponsored by Allen & Heath, Attero Tech, Audinate, Behringer, Bosch, Bose, BSS Audio, Focusrite RedNet, Harman, Nexo, Midas, Open Access, Peavey Commercial Audio, Shure, Soundcraft, Stewart Audio, Symetrix, TC Group, 2N Telecommunications, and Yamaha Commercial Audio.

This event will feature panel discussions, presentations, and workshops. Interactive panel discussions and presentations will be led by leading industry design consultants, AV installation contractors, IT networking experts, and leading professional audio equipment vendors. In addition to the broad spectrum of informative panel topics a major interoperability networkin

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Jens Ravn, owner of AV-Huset stated their choice for Pan Beam, "We from AV-Huset have been looking at the different systems appearing in the market and they all had their strong and weak points. As we were looking for a company that is not only specialised in steerable products, that had the leading designing technology and the feature set that the market required. We required a uniquely and prefect performance in combination with a simple, system set-up with an intuitive software, to prevent our dealers and installers need to be a programming experts to get the best results".

"In Pan Beam we found exactly this, but we also found a comprehensive range covering all of the applicat

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Brian Grogan, regional sales manager, Vivitek EMEA, comments, "I am delighted that Sahara PLC is now one of our distribution partners. They are one of the UK's largest and a well-respected trade-only AV distributor. With continued year-on-year business growth, experienced staff, coupled with excellent channel reach, we believe Sahara Presentation Systems PLC will make the ideal partner for Vivitek's UK growth strategy."

Peter Vernon, business manager for Projection at Sahara adds, "Vivitek is a well-established projector brand with some great products. With their comprehensive range

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The three Christie award entries are:Phoenix (Category #4 - Most InAVative Video Processing or Distribution Product); D4K with TruLife (Category #5 - Most InAVative Projector), and In Control & Virtual Remote apps (Category #10 - Most InAVative Integration Tool).

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Bringing a 197-year-old religious institution into modern times to attract young, urban followers is no small task. But, American Bible Society's high-profile location at 61st/Broadway in New York City offered a prime opportunity to create an inviting, visually thought-provoking "third space" to inspire local youth with the Bible.

Barco and Velocity outfitted the newly redesigned atrium and gathering spots with 22 OverView NSL-4621 LCD displays in various configurations, presenting spiritual imagery and videos, live media streaming, signage for upcoming events and services, and more.

"When we began the design process, our goal was to create a warm, welcoming space that was intriguing and presented

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"Although this is not a long tour, we are going large, very large on this," continues Wade. "This outing is really fulfilling commitments from last year that were disrupted by Adam Levine's involvement with The Voice in the USA

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The Band's manager Dougie Souness and production manager Pete Bell approached XL to assist with realising a production design created in conjunction with lighting designer Martin Nicholas and consultant Miguel Ribeiro, who worked closely with the band on the creation of content.

At the heart of this was an 80ft wide rear projection screen gently curved - cyclorama style - by two end-wings angled at around 15 degrees.

They wanted the video system to be as flexible as possible, and to be able to switch playback content and IMAG camera footage between the main screen and two side screens.

XL's project manager was Paul 'Macca' McC

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The event was watched by over 200,000 people along the banks of the Thames and live at home by 13.7m through the BBC One broadcast. This year, through the partnership between the Mayor of London's Office and Vodafone, the live experience featured the world's first 'multi-sensory' fireworks display. Exotic fruit flavours, synchronised special effects and colour-changing LED wristbands were added to augment the firework display - adding an extra dimension to the midnight spectacular.

The Shell Centre, just to the side of the EDF Energy London Eye and an iconic landmark on the South Bank of the river, was used to project

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"Already renowned for attributes such as innovation, quality and low total cost of ownership, Hitachi will be demonstrating a number of new products with a series of creative and stimulating application showcases," said Axel Kutschke, senior manager, presentation products for Hitachi Digital Media Group. "These new products represent a significant step by Hitachi, pus

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Simen Teigre, CEO at Pexip said, "Coming from an IT background, Pexip will be demonstrating how AV companies can take advantage of conferencing in a virtualized world."

Pexip Infinity is a "ground-breaking concept in videoconferencing through its virtualized, scalable and distributed architecture". It simply enables corporations to deploy enterprise-wide HD videoconferencing in as little as ten minutes, and to any device.

Pexip Infinity virtualized software can be deployed on VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V and features gene

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"VuWall2DS has been developed with the same attention to user experience as the other products of the VuWall2 software suite. The Vuwall2 platform has been nominated for the 2014 InAvate Technology awards and has enjoyed a fantastic level of adoption since its first release in June 2013'' says Paul Vander Plaetse, president of VuWall technology.

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The South African Medical Association Doctors Awards acknowledges doctors and specialists who contribute significantly to medicine and healthcare. Entertainment was provided by the electrical string quartet, the Muses.

Andries Liebenberg and his team from Showgroup ensured a smooth production. The main attraction at the show was a 360° screen. "We had to go front projection," said Liebenberg "I usually get excited when I'm drawing and putting the project together," he said. "I also have DVDs to see what ot