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Dominating an entire side of the White Light stand was French manufacturer Robert Juliat. Always known for its beautifully made products, Juliat has now turned its hand to improving the humble PC fixture. The Lutin 1000W PC features a series of interchange lenses (Fresnel, Pebble and PC) as well as a host of other minor improvements such as a graduated ruler printed on the side of the unit. Also on display from Juliat was its new Super Korrigan 1200W HMI followspot and its new Espion 2 DMX512 tester.

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Canadian smoke machine manufacturer MDG showed its new ICEFog machine - essentially a fog generator that produces a low-lying dry ice effect without the grief and messiness. The machine works with liquid CO2 - and is in a league of its own, say the company. MDG was also showing its Atmosphere series of foggers and promises to unleash "something amazing" at LDI this year!

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Dutch company Highlite International offers a whole range of lighting and sound products manufactured in China and marketed as DAP Audio and Showtec (lighting). The company showed its Award-winning LED tubes (from ProLight&Sound 2004) featuring 144 LEDs in the tube or 16 PCBs each with three red, green and blue emitters. Using up to 1,000 tubes, designers can create 'flow shows' from the first to the last fixture.

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Under the Lightfactor umbrella, which in turn is now under the Polaron umbrella along with former competitor Zero 88, was LightProcessor with its new Dimension 1210 wall-mounted dimmer.

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Adding to its existing Mood Light product line, Traxon launched the 64PXL DMX at PLASA.The 64-pixel / LED light source tile measures 500 x 500 x 60 mm, and each pixel can be controlled via DMX512.

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Sharing a stand with MA Lighting, Rainbow Colour Changers announced a new "advanced electronics system" retrofitable to the classic line of colour scrollers. The new electronics system adds a number of new features including a 'special colour mode' to avoid burning through low transmission colours, lower voltage tolerance, over-voltage protection and the adjustment of control parameters.

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As we reported last issue, Australia's State Automation (formerly Bytecraft) has launched a joint venture with Robert Juliat, forming Paris-based State Automation Europe. Pride of place on the stand was the state-of-the-art SANET fibre optic lighting control network. The modular system comprises a range of components, including a 90-channel sine wave dimming module, offline editor software, tablet PC, mobile phone monitoring interface and many more. Based on TCP/IP technology, the system can transmit up to 32,768 DMX channels. International sales manager Bertrand Dauphant reported much interest from visitors.

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Griven revealed its new LED range including the Parade D54 strip and the Duke and Dart IP65 LED fixtures. The Duke is a linkable three-headed fitting and the Dart is the single version. The drivers are neatly fitted on the back of the fixtures. The Griven 4k Kolorado, the company's new CYM colour changing fixture, was prominent on the stand, as was a prototype 7kW version of the Griven ColorGlobe.

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The Apollo Design stand featured a vast selection of gobos that included some of the 60-100 new gobos that the Indiana-based company introduces each year. In addition to gobos, Apollo also showed off its Smart Color scrollers and its Smart Move gobo rotators.

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Surely one of the most eye-catching stands at th show was that of Pulsar, with its LED-adorned canopy. The company showed several new models, including ChromaBatten100 (available in 600 and 1200mm widths) and the compact ChromaFlood100. All units are IP65-rated and are powered directly from 100-240V. They have full remote DMX control of RGB levels for colour mixing, and internal sequences provide operation without a separate control system.

Another addition to the ChromaBatten range is the ChromaBatten50 - a 300mm wide, IP65-rated fixture, powered and controlled from the ChromaZone. Also new is the ChromaStripX3 high power LED strip, offering three times the power of the existing ChromaStrip2. Finished in sleek extruded aluminium and available in 300, 600 and 900mm lengths, the ChromaStripX3 is IP65-rated and are powered for the established ChromaZone technology.Pulsar also updated its

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German Lighting Products (GLP) showed its new YPOC 700 moving head which weighs just 28kg with its electronic ballast. It is extremely bright and internal features include three gobo wheels, high speed iris, 14-32° focus and zoom and prism. UK architectural LED specialists i-Vision also showed its Lumos products on the GLP stand.

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Strong had a new followspot to dazzle attendees - the Radiance. The influence of the LDR range of spots, which Strong distributes in the US, can easily be seen in the Radiance. The aluminium extrusions that run the length of the fixture, and the low-profile yoke, along with some quite nifty focus and zoom controls, sets this 850W metal halide spot apart from the rest of Strong's range as a very new kind of followspot.

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Ambient Lighting, Griven's UK distributor, shared the stand with the Italian manufacturer (see Griven) and helped launch its new products. Ambient also distributes Ledion and Tryka L.E.D. products and concentrates on architectural, colour changing and effects lighting applications and markets.

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New from Daslight was the DVC 100 Basic interface for the company's Virtual Controller DMX software. A 'reduced function' version of the company's DVC 512 interfaces, the DVC 100 Basic works with a maximum of 100 channels or 10 fixtures, with the number of scenes, steps and effect is fixed at 30, four of which can be triggered simultaneously. "This was the fourth year that we have exhibited, but the first where the stand has been just Daslight products," said technical and sales manager Vianney Bourjot. "We have been very pleased with the show, meeting new international customers, old friends and regular users."

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New lasers were the main product interest at Chauvet, which gave the world launch of its 'Scorpion' line of DMX-controllable lasers. Featuring a fat beam and taking eight channels of DMX, Scorpion is a very dynamic range. Its USP is the fat beam, which, via a patented optical system, enables a 4.9mW laser to resemble a YAG. Chauvet also showed its range of moving light fixtures.

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Lagotronics is a Dutch manufacturer majoring in customized LED lighting solutions. Although the company also has a range of standard products, its key interest is in providing total solutions - from design to installation. At PLASA this year it introduced a new range of standard products made in the Far East, all aimed at the fast-growing 'architainment' sector.

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PLASA regulars Lite Puter Enterprise from Taiwan showed the new EDX-610 DMX switching dimmer pack, aimed primarily at the architectural and installation market. Dimmers can be selected for all types of lighting on this six-channel product and different 'on' or 'off' times can be set. The product has recently been used for several five-star hotels in Taiwan, including the Sheraton and the Hyatt in Taipei.

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KAM - on the stand of UK distributor Lamba - introduced its first ever lighting range - aimed at the mobile DJ and small installations.

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The ShowLED 'Chameleon' is a full-colour LED starcloth offered in the UK by S+H Technical Support. Producing full RGB colour mixing, the curtain can be used straight out the box as a plug-and-play random colour changing device, or is programmable via any DMX controller. ShowLED once again formed the backdrop at the rear of Earls Court's main hall (see pictures) and also dressed certain other areas of the PLASA Show.S+H also offer a fun video tool for - well, many applications, really. The Inter Active Projector (working title) is a clever piece of software that takes a signal from an IR motion detector, and uses placement of that signal in space to target temporary distortion of the projected image. Confused? S+H projected an animated fishpond on the floor of its stand: as you stepped onto it water would ripple around your footsteps, and fish swim away. Got the picture?

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USA - For the third year running, Los Angeles-based Visions Lighting helped create the party atmosphere for Spanish-language radio station Super Estrella's annual Reventón concert at The Pond in Anaheim.

Working with Reventón's lighting designer, Chris Reade, Visions Lighting erected an intricate overhead truss structure that dominated the look of the event. The lighting rig itself included 32 Martin Professional MAC 2000 fixtures, 19 Atomic 3000 strobes, 24 High End Studio Color fixtures, 24 Studio Beam fixtures and 20 Molefays.

Visions Lighting, worked around the clock for three days to make Reventón happen. Each of the nine Latin artists playing at this year's event, several of whom had their own lighting designer, played anywhere from a 20 to 50 minute set.

"It's difficult to describe just what Reventón is like for someone who's never experienced it," remar

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Germany - Over 65,000 concert-goers attended this year's Popkomm festival in Berlin, where more than 1,500 musicians from 23 different countries provided over 400 hours of live music in 30 different clubs and halls around the city. In the thick of the action was the Berlin production company TSE AG: the team lead by Marcel Fery was responsible for both the lighting and the sound at many of the main events, including one of the real highlights of this year's Popkomm, the MTV Designerama Fashion Show.

The centrepiece of the sound design, for an event that received widespread media coverage within Germany and drew a large TV audience throughout Europe, was an Electro-Voice X-Line, Midas consoles and processors and EQs from Klark Teknik.

Commented Fery: "The extremely wide stage in the Berlin Arena held no terrors for the EV system, with its coverage angle of 120 degre

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USA - Color Kinetics Inc and Litecontrol Corporation have announced an OEM agreement. Litecontrol, a leading architectural lighting manufacturer for nearly 70 years, will enter the intelligent solid-state lighting market by applying Color Kinetics' technology, expertise and intellectual property for a unique LED-based product line, say the companies.

Litecontrol's record of innovation includes the development of many widely-used interior architectural fixtures. Recognizing the increasingly prevalent role of LEDs in architectural lighting, Litecontrol will expand its product portfolio with three LED-based offerings that are readily adaptable to common lighting environments, including pendant fixtures and wall sconces. The products will be based on Color Kinetics' versatile Digital Light Engines (DLEs), which apply patented Chromacore technology to efficiently generate colored lig

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UK - It's been a busy summer season of corporate lighting projects for White Light, with the Corporate Lighting team led by Steve Bartlett dealing with events ranging from the Labour Party's pre-election tour to the 30th anniversary screening of Jaws on Brighton beach in front of more than 15,000 people.

Labour's pre-election tour saw White Light working with production company Potcakes on the campaign which covered a wide variety of venues. Since the election, White Light has been involved with the Quincentenary of Christ's College Cambridge and the V Fest lit by lighting designer Chris Biddolph; two events for Barclays at the Excel Centre with lighting designer Tim Ball, and the summer season at the Honorary Artillery Company, lit by Jason Larcombe and Simon Jones.

White Light has also been involved with three projects with Oxygen Events, a massive private party in Plymouth,

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USA - Martin Professional's International stage, studio and event segment manager, Mark Ravenhill, has relocated to Martin's US headquarters office in Florida from the Martin Danish headquarters. Ravenhill remains Martin's International segment manager for the SSE market, and retains overall global responsibility for the segment.

In other news, Peter Skytte has been named Martin's SSE chief product manager. He has been with the company for over ten years and has headed up Martin's service department for a number of years. Mark Ravenhill commented: "Peter's extensive knowledge of both our customers and our products represents an invaluable addition to the global SSE team for Martin. I am very pleased to welcome him to the department."

(Jim Evans)

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  6. PixelEight blinder from James Thomas
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