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UK - Carlsbro has confirmed the appointment of CPC as its exclusive distribution partner for the UK. Established in 1959 Carlsbro introduces over 50 new MI and PA products in three new catalogues at Frankfurt this week.

For nearly 45 years CPC has been one of the United Kingdom's leading, electronics, B2B distributors. Chris Beesley of CPC comments, "This partnership will deliver competitive pricing and long term supply stability to retailers and installers."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Royal Caribbean International's Oasis of the Seas (225,000 gross registered tons, 5,400-passenger capacity), boasts a spectacular and varied entertainment environment. From Broadway productions and comedy revues, to ice skating shows and hot dance clubs, Oasis offers a broad spread of entertainment options to cruising passengers.

A number of designers working independently on various projects aboard Oasis chose the same lighting - Acclaim Lighting. More than 650 LED fixtures and some control solutions from Acclaim are being used to light Oasis.

The largest application of Acclaim products is in the ship's 1380-seat Opal Theatre, where scenic designers Vicki Baral and Gerry Hariton (Hariton/Baral Design, Los Angeles) used 400 Acclaim X-Panels to create a wall of lights for the ship's production of the Tony-award-winning musical Hairspray.

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UK - POLARaudio will exhibit a number of new and existing products from its extensive portfolio at this year's PLASA Focus, including products from leading manufacturers, ASL, Australian Monitor, beyerdynamic, Biamp, MC², Novosonar, Renkus-Heinz and Revolabs.

The focus of this year's show will be on a number of additions to POLARaudio's portfolio. From Australian Monitor, the new AV Revolution DSP, a simple, easy to install DSP solution suitable for multiple applications ranging from lecture theatres, boardrooms, function rooms and systems requiring room-combining capabilities. beyerdynamic products on show will include the new MPR-210 desktop microphone, which utilises Revoluto technology, the Stegos, encrypted wireless boundary microphone and the wireless Revoluto range.

POLARaudio will also showcase the new Biamp Vocia and AudiaFUSION ranges. Vocia is the flagship DSP and

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Germany - Adam Audio has announced the expansion of the SX-Series. After the world premiere of the first six models (S1X, S2X, S3X-H, S3X-V, S4X-H, S4X-V) at Prolight+Sound 2009, Adam this year presents the extension of the SX-Series.

With the S5X-H, the S5X-V and the S6X, the X-ART technology now enhances main monitoring. All three incorporate not only the X-ART (extended frequency response) tweeter, replacing the ART (Accelerating Ribbon Technology) tweeter in the new versions. It shows an efficiency of 96dB, a higher maximum sound pressure level and a frequency response up to 50kHz.X-ART is also the key technology used for the midrange.

All Adam main monitors exclusively feature X-ART midranges. In addition, enlarged HexaCone woofers and mid-woofers driven by PWM amplifiers ensure power and accuracy even at very high volumes in big environments. The two versions (horizontal

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UK - Showsec has completed the first phases of its operational management restructure, to take effect from 1 April 2010.

The new-look management team will focus on continued operational and customer service improvements as part of strategic business development. This significant restructure sees two key members of staff promoted with widened responsibilities supported by a number of area managers taking on new roles, says the company.

Alan Wallace, who has worked with Showsec for 15 years, has been appointed regional manager in the North. Wallace was one of the first Showsec managers to complete a Foundation Degree in crowd management, and will draw on his extensive experience as Manchester area manager in his new role.

Steve Reynolds, formerly a project manager, takes up the position of southern regional manager. Having worked at Showsec for over 10 years after graduating f

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Germany - Coemar is presenting its new range of multi-lamp moving head projectors at ProLight + Sound this week.

The Infinity M range of projectors is designed to hold the revolutionary 700 W mini fast-fit bulb. As powerful as 1,200 Watt projectors, they consume up to half the energy due to the optical quality of the parts used. The reduced dimensions make them easy to handle and transport and the modular construction facilitates maintenance.

At Frankfurt Coemar is exhibiting all the projectors in the range: Infinity XL, Infinity S, and the latest Infinity M.

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - Among the new products launched by FaitalPRO at Frankfurt this week is the FaitalPRO 18XL1500 super woofer. The 18XL1500 is 100% water proof thanks to a pulp of synthetic and natural fibres cone and a special additive applied directly during the production stage and not later on as a coating. An extremely light neodymium magnet ensures all of the speed, power, rapid response and linear excursion

Suitable for any SR application, it fits in 170 litre double chamber Band-Pass configurations with tuning respectively at 30 and 90 Hz. Its electrical parameters are sufficiently "elastic" to allow a very vast range of applications without complex filters. The FaitalPRO 18XL1500 is even suitable as subwoofer for hanging line array configurations.

Also on debut is the 15XL1400", 15" subwoofer - pure sub that uses the same magnet assembly and suspensions - t

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USA - Cree reports that its high brightness LEDs are used in Lighthouse Technologies' high definition video screens installed this season in the American Airlines Centre, the Dallas home to both the NBA's Mavericks and NHL's Stars. Cree's versatile 3-in-1 high-brightness LEDs are delivering crystal-clear, high definition images to fans throughout the arena.

In addition to hosting thousands of NBA and NHL fans, the American Airlines Centre also features numerous concerts and live entertainment throughout the year. Opened nearly 10 years ago and seating up to 20,000, the installation of 25 Lighthouse LED video screens is part of a large-scale technological renovation project at the arena. This includes the first 1080x1920 high-definition video screen in any NBA or NHL facility. Overall, the new digital screens will increase video visibility throughout the facility, providing spect

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UK One of the North East's largest venues is set to embark on a major campaign to attract large scale exhibitions and conferences.

St James' Park has more than a 100 boxes and suites which can cater events ranging from those for a handful of people to a sit down dinner for a 1000.

And now the club's events team is set to proactively market the venue to highlight its easy accessibility and the versatility of the spaces available to organisations and companies wanting to stage an event or an exhibition in the North East.

The conference and banqueting at Newcastle United is run by Sodexo Prestige. In 2009 the club held more than 2000 events, including accommodating over 1500 people who turned up for the auditions for Big Brother.

The club is now planning to raise its profile outside of the region to highlight its easy accessibility and versatility of the space availabl

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UK/Netherlands - European AV resellers and integrators attending a meeting of the Genuine Lamps Alliance (GLA) in Amsterdam called on projector lamp manufacturers to join the Alliance's anti-copy lamp initiative.

Founded with the support of international lamp distributor Just Lamps, the GLA campaigns to bring the issue of counterfeit, or 'copy lamps', to the attention of the distribution channel, consumers, institutional and business buyers. Copy lamps often infringe intellectual property rights, offer inferior performance and, in some instances, cause equipment damage or even physical injury.

Members of the GLA are committed to selling only genuine projector lamps. Genuine lamps comply with intellectual property rights, guarantee the user a specified level of performance and are tested to ensure that health and safety standards are met.

The copy lamp problem is increasing i

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UK - Employers are being urged to embrace new guidelines which aim to clarify their responsibilities around volunteering, work experience, internships, traineeships and apprenticeships. They are launched as new statistics reveal that almost half of the Creative Media workforce (44 per cent) said they had carried out unpaid work to get into the industry.

The guidelines clearly set out the law and employment duties in the creative industries, where gaining entry is so often informal and open to a "who you know" culture. Put together by Skillset in collaboration with Creative & Cultural Skills and Arts Council England, the guidance aims to promote good practice and clarify the various entry routes into the creative industries.

It is the first time such guidelines have been drawn up for the creative and cultural industries. They include: Limiting work experience placemen

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Germany - DiGiCo unveiled its SD9 console at ProLight+Sound in Frankfurt yesterday. The SD9 is a complete, integrated system, which includes the mixing surface, a D-Rack digital stage interface and CAT5E digital multicore, with the additional ability to simultaneously record 56 channels direct to multitrack software or DAW. And it all comes at a price "which makes the SD9 the perfect solution for touring bands, schools, conference centres, smaller theatres, houses of worship and a host of other applications where exceptional performance and flexibility need to be realised on a tight budget".

The SD9's work surface features a giant full-colour digital TFT LCD touch sensitive screen, 24 full-length motorised faders with touch-sensitive fader caps, high resolution bar graph meters, quick access encoders and buttons plus user defined RGB backlit LCD scribble strips to ensu

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Germany - Responding to demand for more of its Selador LED lighting fixtures, ETC has introduced two bold colour spectrum specific versions: Fire and Ice.

Fire features a warm wash of saturated reds, oranges and ambers never before seen from LEDs or gels. Ice provides, in one fixture, a palette of deep indigo, blue, cyan, green (and a touch of red) - the gamut of blue washes that designers seek for their lighting plots. Integral to the new Selador Vivid lineup, Fire and Ice offer these rich, lush colours while equalling or exceeding the brightness performance of conventional tungsten PAR fixtures and saving dramatically on electricity.

In a typical colour application, Fire and Ice fixtures produce more light and consume less than 70 watts of power compared to their gelled tungsten counterparts at 575 watts. Changes in LED technology have also prompted ETC to upgrade its popula

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Germany - At the 2010 ProLight+ Sound expo in Frankfurt this week, Barco announced a broad spectrum of enhancements, upgrades and new products geared towards strengthening the digital lighting and moving luminaire product lines. This comprehensive multi-product announcement expands the capabilities of the DL.3 digital light, the Axon Media Server and the DML-1200 digital light, and unveils two brand new products - the SDI-DMX Mixer Pro and the new intellaspot XT-1.

For the DL.3 digital light and the Axon media server, Barco advances the product line's core capabilities with new version 2.0 software - providing additional media streams, new features and additional creative effects.

Exclusive to the Axon media server, each unit now ships with dual HD-SDI inputs as standard. For the DML-1200 digital light, the unit's latest software upgrade expands the system's functionality with

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usa - After an acclaimed world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, the new musical American Idiot is set for Broadway.

Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer and featuring music by multi-Grammy Award winning punk trio Green Day, the new rock tuner takes the St. James Theatre beginning 24 March, 2010. Opening night is set for 20 April.

American Idiot follows the journey of a new generation of young Americans as they struggle to find meaning in a post 9/11 world, lived through Green Day's score. The musical includes every song from the album American Idiot as well as several songs from the band's 21st Century Breakdown.

Mayer leads a creative team that includes scenic design by Tony nominee Christine Jones, video and projection design by Darrel Maloney and lighting design by Kevin Adams.

The set is fed by 15 Hippotizer HD V3

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Germany - MicW, the Beijing-based manufacturer of recording, live and conference audio microphones, is launching 11 new products at this week's Pro Light + Sound/Musikmesse in Frankfurt, ranging from handheld vocal mics to compact, desktop, shotgun and boundary models.

There are additions to MicW's E, N and G ranges - that is, respectively the company's entry-level, nickel-diaphragm, and gold-diaphragm mic ranges - including some repurposed versions of previously released mics, in new physical formats for different applications. For example, the new HN151 and BN151 are handheld and desktop versions of the existing 'bottle-shaped' N151 nickel-diaphragm wide cardioid, designed for vocal miking and acoustic guitar. The new desktop version, the BN151, is designed to be used in broadcast and conference audio applications, in courtrooms or for teleconferencing.

"After a strong

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Germany - Allen & Heath and Audinate announced at Prolight +Sound this week that they are collaborating to introduce Dante networking modules for the iLive digital mixing series. Dante will be incorporated into Allen & Heath's range of audio networking plug in cards, which slot into the iDR MixRacks and allow iLive to interface with a variety of common audio interface and networking standards, increasing inventory flexibility and system integration.

Audinate's Dante is a standards-based IP media networking solution. The Dante media networking technology suite transports low latency uncompressed audio over a standard IP Ethernet network with sample accurate synchronization. Dante simplifies installation because it supports automatic device and channel discovery, with easy to use signal routing. Dante also provides comprehensive network monitoring tools. Allen & Heath will be sell

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UK - Traxon Technologies has introduced Media Tube RGB, an ultra-bright linear media solution designed to enhance sophisticated architectural applications with full colour lighting effects and video animations.

With the ability to display stylish full colour effects and replay medium-to-high resolution video content, Media Tube RGB is an ultra bright media solution, which enhances demanding and sophisticated applications with a multitude of vibrant colours and sharp video animations with long distance visibility.

The slim-profile LED solution is designed to create ribbons of colour and colour changing effects. With up to 40 individually-controllable pixels per running meter (25mm pitch), Media Tube RGB offers the precision required to display large-scale videos and graphics in any architectural, retail, or hospitality setting, says the company.

Featuring premium quality LEDs

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Germany - This week's Frankfurt Pro Light + Sound marks the launch of Adamson's Eklipsa series of horizontal arrays as well as the expansion of the M Series family of floor monitors.

The Eklipsa array is available in both a 12" bi-amped version and a 15" bi-amped version. Both of these arrays boast Adamson's Advanced Cone Architecture together with Adamson's High Frequency Wave Shaping technology.

Both of Adamson's proprietary, ND12, 12" neodymium low-mid transducer and ND15, 15" neodymium low-mid transducer, feature a progressive Kevlar cone geometry that reduces modal behaviour, providing an improved and linearized pass-band throughout the vocal range.

The High Frequency Wave Shaping sound chambers insure a uniform wave front that does not interfere with the adjacent enclosures in the array. Each waveguide is loaded with a 4" diaphragm neodymium co

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UK - Centre of the Cell is a science centre helping children and young people learn about biomedical science and research through digital games and audio visual displays. The centre is located in a pod suspended over the biggest open plan research laboratories in Europe based in Whitechapel, London.

D.J.Willrich (DJW) was subcontracted by the lead contractor Beck Interior, to provide a full Medialon integrated system in Centre of the Cell. DJW also worked closely with the project designer, Land Design Studio.

In Centre of the Cell, visitors are immersed in a full audiovisual experience throughout five different 'spaces', or scenes. Being the main A/V show and media controller of the installation, Medialon is in charge of the set up of each of these scenes along with their timings. The Medialon system remotely controls the power up and down of all the A/V devices installed in t

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Turkey - Every three years the World Bank - International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings are held outside Washington, DC. In 2009 this prestigious event took place in the Istanbul Congress Centre, Turkey.

Over 13,000 delegates from 186 countries participated in the meetings, which were covered by 2,000 media representatives and broadcast live by France 24 and BBC Television. The key meetings took place in a 3500-seat auditorium, while 28 meeting halls of various sizes enabled 250 separate meetings to be held.

The DCN Next Generation Conference System and the Integrus Digital Infrared Language Distribution System from Bosch were installed in the auditorium and 28 other meeting rooms by Atempo Project Contract Co. The Bosch equipment included 250 Concentus delegate units, 116 interpreter desks, 3000 Integrus wireless infrared receivers, 50 infrared radiators and five 16-cha

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