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UK - Sigma Audio Visual has supplied a full DTS 5:1 sound system - consisting of five Outline Micra SP cabinets and an Outline Globesub - to the Tower of London. The system, which is all self-powered is controlled via Millenium DTS signal processor.

The DTS system saw service at the Tower for two weeks from 19 May through to 4 June 2005 in the Tower of London's Salt Tower, which in medieval times was used to store the saltpetre which was used in the manufacture of gunpowder.

Serious Productions commissioned Sigma AV as they were the only company to have a DTS solution for a specific work that was recorded by Platinum Tones recording Studios in Leicester. Tony Platt, producer for the piece, said he was overwhelmed by the quality and attention to detail that Outline and Sigma achi

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USA - Thunder Audio is putting its recently purchased MILO curvilinear array system to work on Robert Plant's 22-date summer US tour. According to Thunder vice-president Paul Owen, 34 MILO cabinets will be employed to fill the houses on the tour, which kicks off on June 15 in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded more than 25 years ago, Thunder Audio is well-known for servicing heavy rock clients such as Metallica and Slipknot, but actually has a diverse clientele that includes the Detroit Symphony.

"I got to use the MILO system with Metallica when we were in Iceland," Owen recounts. "We were coming off of two years of touring with them where we saw just about every kind of system available on the European festival circuit. Now, I take (Metallica FOH engineer) Big Mick's opinion on a system more than anyone else's, having known him for twenty-five years. After using M

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Hong Kong - Lighthouse Technologies has introduced what it claims to be "the industry's first portable, self-contained 'pop-up' high brightness light emitting diode (LED) video screen". Lighthouse, will be showcasing the PopVision at InfoComm which opens in Las Vegas this week.

PopVision features Lighthouse's proprietary technology, enabling "a high-resolution screen with better quality images at an affordable price". Designed for aesthetic integration, PopVision - with brightness level up to 3000 nits - Is intended for use in any digital signage network (new or existing) where LCD, Plasma and projection systems are not appropriate. PopVision can also be used in outdoor applications and be seen in direct sunlight with the proper weatherproof housing.

The 6mm screen is contained in a 5ft x 2ft mobile case with a wireless remote and hydraulic system that ena

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UK - Tyco Integrated Systems (TIS) has been awarded a £1m plus contract by Transport for London (TfL) to provide a new generation integrated emergency communications system for the Rotherhithe Tunnel.

Radio public address will provide information and advice during emergencies by voice break-in direct to car radios via FM, MW, LW and DAB channels. The Rotherhithe Tunnel is believed to be the first tunnel in the UK to provide DAB radio rebroadcast with emergency voice break-in. The DAB voice break-in facility ensures future-proofing as digital radio replaces analogue and DAB vehicle radios become standard features.

Under normal circumstances, 21 analogue stations and all available DAB stations (five multiplexes) will be rebroadcast throughout the tunnel. Listeners in the tunnel will not have to take any action: the break-in announcements will simply replace all the normal progr

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UK - The Scan Operator 12 Advanced Professional DMX controller for intelligent lighting controls up to 12 fixtures with up to 16 channels. With its two different layouts, it is specially designed for use with midi applications. Additionally, it has an Easy Mode, which simulates a 160 channel fader unit, which can be used as a standalone controller or to enlarge other DMX Controllers.

Meanwhile, the Scan Operator 12 PT Advanced is based on the Scan Operator 12 Advanced, But allows the user to control pan/tilt via jog wheels, and any channel can be inverted. A further feature is the programming of selective chaser overlays which can be combined with the normal chasers.

(Jim Evans)Scan Operator 12 Advanced/Scan Operator 12 PT Advanced.

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Japan - One of Tokyo's highest profile nightclubs, Space Lab Yellow, has installed an Allen & Heath Xone:92 professional DJ mixer in the main DJ booth. The addition is part of a refurbishment of the lounge and bar spaces, and adds to the club's existing system, which contains an ML5000 VCA console, Xone:62 and Xone:464 DJ/club mixer.

The venue has hosted the promotional night World Connection since 1991, bringing top DJs and performers from overseas and developing new talent. Yellow's sound engineer, Mr. Kikuchi, commented: "In a nutshell, Allen & Heath's sonic quality is in a different class, and when I installed the Xone:92 it was as if I could actually see the sound. The high frequencies are sharp and clear, while the bass feels like somebody is beating a massive kick drum. I'm astounded by the mixer's huge cosmic sound scale - it's absolutely like no other!"

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UK - Arcstream AV has appointed Peter Giles as business development director. Giles, who has over 15 years' experience of audio and multi-media production around the world, joins the west-London based company at a pivotal point in its history. Arcstream AV has just been appointed sole distributor (UK, Ireland and the Middle East) for poolSystem and propellerplasma - two new display technologies. Giles' role is to develop the market for these and the company's profile as a one-stop, professional and reliable provider of audio-visual technology applications.

Giles's career portfolio includes audio consultant to Massive Attack for the award-winning Nocturne, audio director for the award-wining Stone Forest in China - where he helped build the biggest ambisonic soundfield in the world; and MARS2112 - in New York - where he worked on motion simulator films and rides to create the pla

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UK - TMC Ltd have devised a tricky design solution for the Birmingham Christian Centre - an Elim Pentecostal church situated close to Birmingham's Broad Street - with the help of architectural effects provided by Lighting Effects Distribution. Commissioned during the late 1980s, the building's ceiling is split into awkward asymmetric segments within a polygonal building shape. But the infrastructure had now become tired, and the visual and sound mixing aspects were in need of upgrade.

TMC's hire department had enjoyed a long relationship with the church's events department over the years. The contract sales team were consequently introduced to the project, and invited to work with the client to develop the scheme. It was evident that the existing low pressure sodium lighting, with its familiar yellow hue, was inadequate and TMC were asked to design a concept in which the moods c

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South Africa - Martin Professional's Maxedia recently took a leading role amidst some of South Africa's finest opera singers, including Sibongile Khumalo, Fikile Mvinjelwa and Derick Ellis, at the Aqua Opera in Cape Town.

The location for the Aqua Opera, directed by Angelo Gobbato, is exquisite: the stage is set on a barge at the V&A Waterfront and enables the audience, seated on land, to view the breathtaking backdrop of Table Mountain and the ocean. As the tide would cause the barge to steadily rise as the tide came in during the show, meetings with the Harbour Master established a perfect time for the Aqua Opera to commence with the least amount of interference from the ocean.

Once the natural phenomenon had been taken care of, the technical aspects could be put in place. André Rossouw, lighting designer for the show, had the mammoth task of ensuring a lighti

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UK - bar.05 will be Pulsar's fourth attendance of the Bar Show. Within the Koko feature bar Pulsar will be featuring a comprehensive display of its entire ChromaRange LED products and solutions. Also on display at the show, say Pulsar, will be the recent additions to the ChromaRange - the high-power IP65-rated ChromaFlood200 and ChromBatten200. These fixtures open up to possibilities for large-scale LED illumination projects, says the company's Andy Graves..

Pulsar can be found on stand C33.

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UK - Stardraw.com has welcomed Aurora Multimedia, Rane and Vity to the ever-expanding family of manufacturers whose products are supported within Stardraw Control. Stardraw Control generates customized standalone control applications and has been engineered to support any device using any protocol - if a product is remotely controllable or remotely monitored, Stardraw Control can be used to control and monitor it. Support for a product or product family is implemented by the creation of a driver which means that manufacturers do not need to change or add any hardware or software for existing products for them to be supported. To ensure the easiest transition into full support within the Stardraw Control platform, Stardraw.com currently undertakes all work required to add support for products at no cost.

The rapidly growing number of manufacturers supported in Stardraw Control in

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USA - Boston-based High Output put the Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE through its paces recently to help launch the new Play Station Portable. High Output purchased the 575W Alpha Spot HPE at the beginning of 2005. "For their size and price, I think they are a really good fixture," said High Output's Peter Smith. "The animation wheel is a real plus, and the smooth dimming curve is beautiful."

For the launch of the Play Station Portable (PSP), High Output had to transform the lobby of the Sony building on Madison Avenue in New York City - which features an oversized Spiderman used in the Macy's parade. To complicate matters further, the lobby is a public space until 11:00p.m. "The whole event was a challenge because the space is really not designed for shows," said Smith. "Add to that loading into the room in the middle of the night while it's raining

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Belgium / China - Following last month's contract win for the LED display installation at Nanjing Olympic Centre, Barco Media & Entertainment has been awarded two more major contracts in Chongqing, China. Barco will install outdoor LED displays for the city's International Convention & Exhibition Centre and also for the Chongqing Dahe Advertising Co.

Barco says the total value of the two Chongqing contracts is approximately € 1.5 Million. "I think the signing of these two contracts is a timely reflection of the rapid economic development of the western region in China, which has demonstrated an increased need for high-end facilities associated with the construction of social infrastructure, including large LED displays," says Marco Bruines, vice president Barco Media China.

At the Exhibition Centre, Barco will install an outdoor SLite 14 LED screen, with a total are

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UK - A CyberHoist / InMotion 3D motion control system has been specified for Coldplay's forthcoming 'Twisted Logic' world tour, which opens on 9 June with a sold-out show at the Olympia, Paris. Two months of European stadium and arena shows in June and July are followed from August onwards by a North American tour. The shows will come hard on the heels of the imminent release of the band's acclaimed album, 'X & Y'.

The tour's visual design is by Bryan Leitch and Nick Whitehouse. Siyan, co-owned by Bryan and Nick Valdez, will provide lighting production for the European shows in association with Flashlight Rental of Holland, while lighting for the North America dates will be a co-production between Siyan and PRG. Flashlight, part of the Ampco / Flashlight Group, will also provide the CyberHoist / InMotion 3D motion control system for the complete tour.

(Lee Baldock)

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UK JVC's SR-DVM70EU recorder has three-in-one video recording that incorporates MiniDV, HDD, and DVD and offers a range of professional features. Additional to its triple recording capabilities, the recorder has a 160 GB hard disk that provides high-storage capacity for extended recording times. It also enables mass duplication with high-quality picture and audio.

It is being promoted as is "an ideal tool for quick and easy editing of live programming and recorded DV footage as well as for dubbing, archiving and duplication in a post-production facility or corporate office".

When dubbing, the deck analyses content as it is recorded on the hard disk drive and assigns optimum bit rates to ensure picture quality while calculating disc capacity. In addition, the deck features selectable recording times and data rates depending on the application. Copying of DVD discs can

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Denmark - Nordic Rentals A/S has purchased 36 Crown I-Tech I-T4000 amplifiers, primarily for use in a fully digital monitor setup with a Yamaha PM5. Nordic Rentals A/S is one of Denmark's leading rental and production companies.

Technical Director of Nordic Rentals, Jens Elsborg, comments on choosing the the I-T4000: "The I-Tech Series from Crown is an ideal choice for us as monitor amp for several reasons. Most important is of course the sonic superiority of the Crown Class-I switchmode and PFC technology that makes I-Tech sound better than any other amplifier on the market. The on-board DSP-pack has a lot of nice features, is very easy to use, eliminates the need for external controllers and simplifies the wiring considerably. And the reduced weight makes handling easier for everybody! Furthermore, with digital inputs and TCP/IP networking capabilities, the I-Tech amps ar

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South Korea - Cadac reports the first installation in Asia for the M16 Remote Controlled Microphone Amplifier - at the Yonsei Central Baptist Church which boasts a 13,000-strong congregation. The M16 package was supplied by local Cadac distributor Dreamsound.

The Church's sound engineer, Mr Park, commented, said: "It was vital that we used high performance microphone preamplifiers on all primary sources in order to provide the clear and intelligible reproduction required within a house of worship. We auditioned a variety of microphone preamps and were very impressed by the Cadac M16. The other immediate benefit of using the M16 is that it has integrated seamlessly with our Harrison console."

The M16 integrates 16 of Cadac's classic mic pre-amps into a 19" rack unit, providing three active splits per channel plus a MADI interface. Up to 16 M16 units can be contro

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UK - Allen & Heath has licensed EtherSound and plans to incorporate the protocol in digital audio products. "EtherSound's responsiveness to user requests, and the consequent rapid evolution of this technology have been impressive," says A&H managing director Glenn Rogers.

EtherSound business development manager Jimmy Kawalek comments, "Allen & Heath could have chosen any technology to network its digital audio products. We're very pleased to have them as a member of the growing community of EtherSound licensees, which includes manufacturers of consoles, amplifiers, loudspeakers and safety systems as well as general-purpose and manufacturer-specific network interfaces."

In related news, Bittner Audio has licensed the open EtherSound standard in order to provide digital audio connectivity for its professional power amplifier line. "As live sound moves in

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USA - Dave Keller has been named executive vice president of sales and marketing at Furman Sound. He assumes the role after having been with the company since July 2004 when he joined as vice president of the consumer electronics division, business development, and international sales. Keller's responsibilities will include overseeing the sales and marketing functions for Furman's consumer, professional, and international divisions.

"Furman Sound is in a great position right now," says Keller. "At a time when professional and consumer A/V users are just realising that they have to do something about the very real AC power problems they are facing, we've launched our next-generation technologies that address these issues better than anything else available. I'm looking forward to introducing our latest products to a much larger family of users."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - When Belinda King Presents approached LD Tim Routledge looking for new, flexible lighting products for new production shows onboard the world famous Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner - the new SoftLED video driven LED drape sprang to his mind. The custom SoftLED drapes were manufactured in 22oz cloth with 1,900 Color Kinetics tri-colour LED nodes and fibre optics sewn into them, and were fed by four Broadway Box power/data supplies hung behind the drape. For control, the Color Kinetics Video System Manager maps the video image across the drape, fed by the Hippotizer Media Server.

"I had worked on Belinda's shows onboard the QM2 and at that time we had a starcloth manufactured that had various images sewn into it. Having seen a brief video clip of the SoftLED I thought that this would be ideal for the QE2 projects, and this was proven in a full-scale mock up provided by Ar

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Canada - Toronto entertainment complex The Docks has expanded its attractions and audio networking capabilities. System designer PA Plus and contractor Sound Dymax paired new rooms with a facility-wide audio system retrofit. "The Docks is the poster child for audio transport and external control for DSPs," says Peter Lima of PA Plus. "This is a facility where size really does matter. Because of its size and technical demands, the limits of external control and distance of audio transport truly test the Cat 5's infrastructure."

With twelve external and sixteen internal zones, the Docks project was a complex operation for PA Plus. Ease of control, flexibility and future expandability were the priorities for Lima, who also executed the original DSP programming and system design. "The number of remotes that were required for installation in the facility was

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