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UK - As the dust settles on this year's PLASA Show, preliminary visitor figures show an increase of 3.5 per cent over 2005 (subject to audit), with an estimated 28 per cent coming from overseas - although some exhibitors have reported their own 'international' proportion was even higher than the show average.

"We believe the increased attendance at the event is another indication that the entertainment and communication technology industries are in a robust state of health," PLASA chief executive Matthew Griffiths commented. "Technologies continue to mature and deliver ever more benefits to a wider variety of customers, and the PLASA Show's pre-eminence as a launchpad for new products continues to make it a compelling attraction for visitors."

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Australia - Since its launch in 2003, Platinum Nightclub on the Queensland Gold Coast has quickly become one of the most successful night spots in Australia, hosting the likes of Ministry Of Sound, Kink and One Love. The venue has introduced a new cocktail lounge and updated key components of the main audio system, in particular, the DJ consoles.

"It's been a challenging journey," says Joey Lamitina, Platinum Owner & CEO. "When I first opened the doors I had a very clear idea about how I wanted to run the club, the audience I wanted to attract and the acts/DJ's that I wanted to bring into the club and onto the Queensland music scene. The DJ's were relatively unknown back then but I'm delighted to say that their stars have risen alongside Platinum and today the likes of Dirty South, TV Rock, Vandalism, The Stafford Brothers, Bang Gang and Carl Kennedy are virtually

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Korea - Recently built, the five hundred-seat Jung Sung Po Temple is situated on South Korea's second largest island, Keo Je Do, which is joined to the mainland by a bridge. The temple is part of the Chon Tae Order, a new Buddhist movement that promotes patriotism, Buddhism in daily life and the teachings of Buddha for the common man. The temple authorities approached d&b audiotechnik's Korean partner, Hak Kwon Kim, with a view to installing a d&b sound system to enable the congregation to fully appreciate the monks' Mass. "One of the monks, who was in charge of the PA installation, had previously heard a d&b system," explained Kim, "and hence the approach to us."

"We installed Max monitors and Ci80s on the altar immediately adjacent to the Buddha and used d&b E-PAC amplifiers to power the loudspeakers," continued Kim. "All the loudspeaker cabi

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UK - Large format projection specialists ETC UK supplied five 6Kw PIGI film projectors with double rotating scrollers and four Barco R18 video projectors for Music On Fire, a spectacular three-day mixed-media extravaganza and Firework Prom staged at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey.

ETC UK amalgamated its new OnlyView video control system with the Pigi large format film projection and control platform, OnlyCue, to bring the projections alive on the 150 metre wide by 10 metre high, cream painted, Old Academy building. This provided the graphic and pictorial backdrop to the two-hour event, which featured a two-act narrative and music from an amalgamation of several different military orchestras and bands, plus special guests, and pyrotechnics from Pyro Vision.

Music On Fire was devised and produced by Major Sir Michael Parker for the Army Benevo

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USA - Arup has announced the appointment of David Taylor, an internationally known consultant for theatres, concert halls and other performing arts venues, to lead Arup's performing arts sector work in the Americas. Taylor, an associate principal based in New York, will be the primary point of contact in the Americas for performing arts clients and the linchpin for Arup's overall work in the sector.

"It's an excellent fit for both Arup and David," said Neill Woodger, principal and leader of the Arup Acoustics practice in the Americas. "He has worked with Arup for more than 20 years on key arts projects around the world. His expertise in theatre planning and design brings an important skill set to our practice, augmenting our existing acoustics, lighting, simulation, venue consulting and engineering disciplines and allowing us to provide a complete and integrated p

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USA The licence-free, digital wireless intercom system, FreeSpeak 50 from Clear-Com, a Vitec Group brand, can now also maintain point-to-point communications wherever the beltpack user is roaming and was featured for the first time at IBC 2006.

The FreeSpeak / Cellcom matrix controller card, known as E-Que, can now provide its digital wireless beltpack users with full integration within the matrix. Through Dynamic Port Allocation (DPA), the matrix can maintain point-to-point communications with the beltpack user no matter which antenna it is communicating with or where the user is roaming.

FreeSpeak 50 operates using a cellular network of digital antennae directly connected to the Clear-Com matrix. Enabling the matrix to serve complex or very large areas and wireless systems with 50 or more users, where wired or line-of-sight communications would simply not be practical. This

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USA - DSS, Inc., has designed and supplied the UMB Bank Pavilion in St. Louis, with a new lawn delay system featuring JBL Vertec line arrays.

Live Nation, operator of the UMB Bank Pavilion, needed to upgrade the concert experience for guests who frequent the open-air venue to enjoy the many top-tier entertainment attractions hosted there. Shows booked for the 2006 season included Aerosmith, Dave Matthews Band, Sammy Hagar, Toby Keith, Tom Petty and Rascal Flatts.

After repairing the older, existing lawn-area sound system year after year, the decision was made to purchase a new, more capable system. Increased fidelity, improved output capabilities and acceptance by visiting tour sound professionals were design goals. DSS, a midwestern firm specialising in production technologies and sound reinforcement system integration with both event rentals and installation departments, was

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Norway - 3M Optical Systems reports that its Vikuiti rear projection display screens have played a successful role in the €200,000 Ladies European Tour, SAS Masters Golf tournament, which took place in Oslo.

According to Pål Berg, CEO of Norwegian integrators, Gobex, rear projection offered the most robust display solution to present the scores to spectators at several locations on the course. "We needed a display capable of producing bright and crisp images under challenging conditions, including long viewing distances, wide viewing angles, and high ambient light levels. The Vikuiti screen was also the only one of its kind with an integrated anti-glare surface, which has proved absolutely essential for the success of the GolfScore system," said Berg.

Gobex developed the GolfScore system for golf courses everywhere to collate scores directly using 3G mobile and Int

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Denmark - The Exterior 1200 is the newest addition to Martin Architectural's Exterior range of outdoor luminaires. Its powerful 1200W lamp and full range colour mixing system make it ideal for dynamic illumination of tall structures, high-rises or any high-visibility architecture, says the company.

The Exterior 1200's seamless CMY system blends the primary colours Cyan, Magenta and Yellow to achieve a full spectrum of luminous colours. These, variable in hue and saturation, can be programmed to shift smoothly from shade to shade. Further options are provided on a four-colour wheel.

It houses an efficient 1200W metal halide lamp capable of reaches of nine stories and above. Intensity control is 0-100% for easy balance of brightness allowing buildings and landscapes to respond intelligently to the availability of natural light.

Narrow and Medium models provide designers with a

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UK - XL Video is supplying video playback, camera systems and crew for the current hi-energy McFly arena tour. Britain's most popular young nu-pop band continue riding the rollercoaster of success on the cusp of their third 'Motion In The Ocean' album - due for release in November.

XL has worked on previous McFly tours and the account is handled for them by Phil Mercer, who says: "We had a very specific brief in terms of the design and configuration of the upstage video element. With an extensive inventory of the latest LED technology, XL made this a tourable reality."

Peter Barnes was brought in by Production North as artistic director. He's created an innovative video design based around a large onstage screen amalgamating Barco S-Lite 10XP high resolution LED screen panels and Barco O-Lite low-res modules, arranged in a jagged edged chequerboard effect.

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UK - Thorns Group was among Europe's winners as it supplied equipment and expertise to the hospitality facilities for this year's Ryder Cup at Ireland's K Club. The group was hired by event specialist Tapenade to provide a range of equipment for over 5,000 visitors to the club. Two separate Thorns Group divisions were involved in the assignment - with Thorns Furniture and Catering Hire supplying large quantities of furniture and catering equipment and Classic Technical Services providing lighting, power and sound services.

Paul Vesper, of Surrey-based Tapenade, said: "Thorns provided an integral part to this event, including the after-event party. Everything went as planned."

The Classic team, which was headed by Account Director Paul Seeney, distributed more than 10km of cabling and installed over 300 lighting units at the K Club for Tapenade. The division also prov

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UK - Beadlight Ltd, an innovator in LED diffusion and video effect technologies, has announced the grant of Patent No. GB2392488 by the UK Patent Office entitled 'Illumination device'. The technology described in the patent provides a unique method of diffusing light, particularly directional light generated by LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes).

This innovative approach to light diffusion has the effect of producing a myriad of virtual point sources of light, scattering the directional glare normally associated with LED products. This proprietary technology has been incorporated across the Beadlight range, including the ice*lighting and Light*Wand ranges of entertainment and architectural lighting.

Pat Wisby, managing director of Beadlight, was delighted with the news that the company's first patent had been granted: "This award-winning technology allows us to produce the high

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UK - Integrated Systems Europe has announced that registration is now open for ISE 2007, which will take place 30th January - 1st February 2007 at the Amsterdam RAI, with the support of the three associations; CEDIA, InfoComm International and NSCA.

An innovation at ISE 2007 will be the multimedia conferencing pavilion, which will feature the latest products and technologies in video, audio and web conferencing. Integrated Systems Europe managing director, Mike Blackman comments, "While we can boast an unprecedented number of exhibitors signed up for the show, occupying the largest floor space in the history of ISE, we want visitors to come away with a feeling of a total systems integration experience that will motivate, inspire and excite. The support from our sponsoring organisations as well as our exhibitors, has been instrumental in being able to achieve these magnifice

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UK - Bandit Lites UK has renewed its acquaintance with lively rockers McFly, currently undertaking a nationwide arena tour. The overall lighting, video and integrated visual and set design was created by Peter Barnes, working closely with lighting director Graham Feast. The tour is being produced by Production North's Iain Whitehead.

The lighting contract is managed for Bandit by Lester Cobrin, who says "The design is based on three trusses, underpinned by the fundamental principals of rock 'n' roll lighting - keeping things fast, adrenalised, exciting and matching whilst complimenting the explosive energy levels of the band onstage."

The rear truss has six custom built trusses hanging vertically downwards from it, providing architectural definition to the higher part of the visual picture, and also framing the jagged edged video screens. Each vertical truss contains

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Australia - RDM is the Remote Device Management add-on for DMX512, it allows 2 way communication between lights and the control system.

The ENTTEC suite consists of three applications. Controller application mimics an RDM controller device which allows the user to discover, get and set information (such as setting the DMX address) in RDM responders (devices). Responder applications mimics an RDM responder like a dimmer of moving light allowing the user to retrieve and set different parameters, for example setting the DMX address or getting the lamp hours. The RDM sniffer is an RDM diagnostics tool that monitors RDM packets travelling on a DMX line and decodes the packets into a human readable format.

The RDM controller and Responder both use the low cost DMX USB Pro interface enabling anyone in the industry to take their first steps with RDM today, says the company. The ENTTEC

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USA - A crowd estimated by police to be 500,000 strong celebrated Independence Day at and around Boston's Hatch Shell, an outdoor concert venue adjacent to the Charles River, by listening to the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and Aerosmith rockers Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. Scorpio Sound provided concert audio services for the event, including JBL Vertec line array systems.

In addition to the massive onsite live audience, millions of viewers also watched the July 4th event with a one-hour television special broadcast over the CBS television network. "Production for this event is all about the TV show," explained Scorpio Sound's Kevin Delaney. "Offstage scaffolding towers are positioned to support the main concert arrays near the Hatch Shell, and these are fully draped to give a visually attractive presentation for the broadcast screen."

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Spain - There were celebrations in Barcelona last week, as Nacho Alberdi returned home from London with a special PLASA Award for Innovation to share with his Vieta team. The Award was given to Vieta for its revolutionary new wireless loudspeaker series, the So Line, and was one of only three awards given to audio product development.

The Innovation Awards are intended to recognise the essential quality of innovation in the fields represented by PLASA - lighting, sound, engineering, AV and staging for entertainment, presentation and installation. At the special Awards ceremony, attended by special guest Sir George Martin, eight awards were presented in recognition of the impressive design and development work going on across the industry.

The Award recognises the considerable achievement of the Vieta Pro team, led by MD Nacho Alberdi and product designers Jordi Hernandez and J

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USA - The Rolling Stones have invited hip-hop superstar Kanye West to join the first three dates of their North American tour this month. West will be bringing his unique rapping style and an AKG Acoustics WMS 4000 Wireless System to The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang world tour for several dates.

Over the past year, Kanye West has been noted for using AKG Acoustics microphone products for his live show performances. During last year's Touch the Sky tour, West used an AKG WMS 4000 Wireless System with C 5900 M condenser capsule to deliver his high-energy performances.

West's debut album, The College Dropout has sold over three million copies and to date, he has won six GRAMMY Awards and has received a total of eight nominations.

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Sweden - Lab.gruppen reports that it enjoyed "a truly stellar" PLASA 2006. Tremendous interest was generated by the introduction of eight new models in the Lab.gruppen line, says the company, with the FP+ Series catching the attention of a variety of potential customers from major sound rental companies to theatre and AV specialists.

The C Series line extension models also garnered compliments. The four new 8- and 4-channel models are designed for use as part of large C Series installations and in stand-alone mode for boardrooms, audio/visual presentations, cafés, exhibits, bars and in general for applications where lower power per channel with quality sound is desired.

The FP+ Series, includes, the FP 13000 (2 x 6500 W), FP 10000Q (4 x 2500 W), FP 7000 (2 x 3500 W) and FP 6000Q (4 x 1500 W), all ratings at 2 ohms. The new C Series models are, C 20:8X (8 x 250

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USA - Pro Sound Service installed JBL Vertec line arrays and AE Series loudspeakers at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, MA for the 2006 summer concert and event season.

The Tweeter Center is a 19,900-seat outdoor venue with a covered, roofed section of about 7,500 seats with the balance in an open seating area. A wall at the back of the seating area separates it from the community. The new sound reinforcement system to serve the lawn area was designed and installed by Pro Sound Service, a 16-year-old firm that has been providing repair and maintenance on the venue's existing system for 10 years.

Until installation of the new system, there had been an ongoing noise-complaint issue from the neighbourhood located behind the back wall of the facility. A 16-foot high wall barrier had been erected to alleviate noise complaints after the town established a maximum allowable sound pre

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Canada - Robe moving lights have been specified for the Canadian premier of Cirque Niagara's spectacular Avaia show, staged in the 60,000 sq.ft Celestial Palace big top tent at Rapidsview Park, Niagara Falls.

Created by Russian circus impresario Mairbek Kantemirov and declared an instant classic, Avaia is one of the most anticipated and powerful productions of 2006, amalgamating rare and beautiful horses, acrobats and hair-raising theatrical performance.

The Robes were supplied to Soundbox Productions -who are co-ordinating and overseeing all the show's technical elements - by Robes Canadian distributor Intellimix Lighting and Ontario Sales Rep, Randy Segeren.

The fixtures were specified by Soundbox's lighting and design team of Tran Langford and Jeff Lavallee. A total of 18 Robe ColorSpot 1200 ATs and twenty-four ColorWash 575 AT fixtures are being utilised fo

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