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New from Robert Juliat was the Super Korrigan 1149 followspot, with a high-performance double condenser optical system, 'A' size gobo handle, large ergonomic handle, and four-blade dimming shutter. Also shown were the Jalousie digital HMI shutters and the Lutin 1,000W Fresnel unit.

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Spain - The Gran Casino Aranjuez, 40km south of the Spanish capital Madrid, is the latest venture by Spain's leading casino operator Comar. Situated at the heart of a huge residential and leisure development, the casino is, its operator boasts, one of the finest in Europe.

The main contractor for the entertainment aspects of the venue was Stonex, one of Spain's leading specialists in the field. Given equal footing with construction company Ferrovial and architectural specialist Sigarci, Stonex completed the entire €3million contract in just four-and-a-half months, under the guidance of joint project managers Carlos Garcia-Diéguez and Javier Latorre.

Stonex's involvement included interior and exterior lighting, audio, electrical installation and stage engineering. The main building itself consists of the casino and a show theatre. The 400-capacity auditorium is just one

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Ocean Optics showed its Sea Changer, which adds CMY to any ETC Source Four. Its patented "extreme green" filter technology, which allows for deeper reds, greens, and blues than traditional CYM, drew much attention.

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High End Systems' newly debuted Studio Command wash fixture - a moving version of the Color Command dichroic colour-mixing fixture - drew large crowds. Making its official debut was the new Catalyst V4, with full support for high-definition (HD) content and LED fixtures, as well as a new GUI and a stand-alone playback option.

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Sharing a stand with A.C.T Lighting was MA Lighting, showing the release version of its media server for the grandMA console - grandMA Video. A reasonably priced product that uses standard PC hardware, it has support for four USB camera inputs and blind programming. grandMA Video also shares content details with any connected grandMA console.

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Compulite's Yehuda Shukrun explained that the latest Vector Orange control console, launched successfully (with orders taken) at PLASA in London in September, has completed the Vector range, which now includes the Red, Blue, Green, Orange (or 'Lite') and a playback wing - offering a flexible, expandable suite of control options. The company will now concentrate on complementing the range with accessories, such as nodes and additional universes. The Vector Orange, the compact console in the range, offers control of four DMX512 universes (2048 attributes).

Also on show was the company's lower-cost Dlite range of consoles. Shukrun said that Compulite now has around 20 different consoles in full production, including the Vector, Dlite, 4D and Spark products, and stressed the importance that the company places on developing products that will be expandable and offer value for money to the p

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Design and Drafting showed the latest version of its award-winning LD Assistant software, which allows you to quickly create comprehensive lighting, sound, and video plots in 2D and 3D and now has an advanced visual library.

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The main news at the show from Goboland, the Belgian gobo specialist, was that its recently established London office now has a familiar British face at its helm - that of Vicky Fairall, until recently of DHA Lighting. Fairall said she was relishing the opportunity that Goboland presented.

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The atmosphere on the stand of Czech manufacturer Robe Show Lighting was upbeat, not just with their presence at the LDI show, but with the general level of acceptance its products have achieved, both in the US and globally. Harry Von Den Stemmen was very pleased to report that designers were now coming onto the company's booth especially to talk about Robe's fixtures as serious lighting tools - demonstrating a gratifying awareness and acceptance of the company's products in the marketplace.

The main new product focus at LDI was the LEDBlinder148, which was launched at PLASA in September. The LEDBlinder 196 and 148 units are Robe's first LED-based products aimed at entertainment applications. Fitted into industry-standard 8-lite and 4-lite casings, they bring the advantages of LED technology to an old stage lighting mainstay. Each two or four pairs of the 4- or 8-lite modules are separ

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The award-winner at Altman Lighting was the Smart Track lighting system, a three-circuit track with DMX control built in. It allows the user to control Altman's Smart IQseries luminaires without cabling and remote dimmers, and mix and match source types on this track, even on the same circuit. With its DMX Adapter, you can break out DMX for controlling automated lights and other DMX-based lighting products. Also, the ODEC outdoor framing projector is a 70/150W CDM unit with 15-35° zoom focus, framing shutters, and glass/steel gobo capabilities.

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Cast Lighting's Real World Scenery System hopes to do for automated scenery programming what WYSIWYG has done for moving light programming. Also, with a direct WYSIWYG connection to UK company Green Hippo's Hippotizer media software already working and video input via a capture card, Cast is tackling the challenges of media servers.

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Special effects innovator CITC showed the Santa Snow Machine; the Polar Controller, for low-ground fog; a new bubble machine, The Bubble Monster; and the Star Hazer II haze machine.

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Strand Lighting picked up the Lighting Product of the Year Award for its C21 sine wave dimming module. The C21 brings the ability to install ninety-six 2.4kW sine wave dimmers in one single rack. Users can also mix sinewave and conventional dimmers within the same rack, while a new Quad dimmer module allows SCR-based systems to achieve a density of 192 dimmers in a single rack. The new dimming system is fully networkable, and features a 16/32-bit RISC main processor running embedded Linux, an integrated Ethernet port, and Web-based configuration and dimmer status-reporting system. The first all-sinewave installation is at the Nashville Symphony Hall, where 1,000 C21 modules have been installed.

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USA - The American DJ Group of Companies has announced the appointment of Eric Loader to director of sales for its Elation Professional and Acclaim Lighting divisions. A 20-year lighting industry veteran, Loader joins the American DJ Group after spending more than a decade at Martin Professional Inc, where he most recently held the position of vice-president of sales and marketing.

In addition to his two decades with lighting manufacturers, Loader worked as a DJ in high school and college, giving him hands-on experience as an end-user of the products. "There are few people who have such vast knowledge and experience in all phases of the lighting business as Eric Loader," says Scott Davies, general manager of the American DJ Group of Companies. "We are honored and delighted to welcome Eric on board, and we believe he will be a terrific asset to our company."

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Wybron announced the implementation of Remote Device Management (RDM) into a number of products. The company is adding the LX nomenclature to all RDM-compatible products. Also shown was the Dogbone interface, which makes non-RDM compatible products RDM-compatible by plugging it into the DMX512 port of the product. Then there's the BP-2 beam luminaire, which the company says produces an intense soft-edge, narrow (10°) beam of light several times more intense than an ordinary spotlight of similar wattage.

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PRG showed the AutoPar wash unit, which incorporates Par 56 illumination with the features of an automated luminaire. Also shown was the Mbox Extreme media server.

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Chauvet had the Intimidator 2.0 five-channel intelligent scanner, the Insignia 2.0 five-channel intelligent barrel scanner, and the Intimidator 1.0 four-channel DMX intelligent scanner, plus the DMx-55, DMX-44, and DMX-7 universal DMX-512 controllers.

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Applied Electronics showed Australian manufacturer LSC Lighting's maXim series of lighting control consoles. Features include 32-bit processing power, resistive touch-screen editing, system "brown-out" protection, universal power supply, onboard self-diagnostics, pop-up status windows on the video display, and full text-labelling. Also shown was the I-Beam truss, round-tube aluminum truss with an internal I-beam inside the tubing to increase structural strength, the 6 x 1200W Dimmer Bar, and the Pelican case, for easy transport on wheels.

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Scharff Weisberg showed G-LEC's LightFrame, another version of its LED frame products. This one is lighter and less expensive, making it available to designers of smaller events who are looking for a unique lighting/graphic effect.

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Avolites showed a number of product developments for the first time in the US. These included its mDMX mains/DMX distribution system, and the P2P, a point-to-point narrow band transmission device for streaming DMX over long distances. Both systems integrate with eDMX, Avo's wireless DMX system, all of which together offer a complete toolkit for getting DMX from A to B and beyond.

Seen previously at PLASA, the ArtDC dimmer is a clever stand-alone unit which works from a DC battery supply. Wireless and eDMX enabled, it offers an ideal solution for dimming in remote, inaccessible places. Incidentally, Avo's Rik Salzedo reports good growth in dimming markets in the UK: ART2000 dimming is enjoying success in the film world, having been used on the Harry Potter films, as well as Tomb Raider, Bridget Jones, Die Another Day, The Italian Job and Charlie and the Ch

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Hong Kong - Back in March 2004, L&SI reported on the completion of the first phase of Hong Kong Harbour's ambitious sound and light show plans. At that time, the Symphony of Lights spectacle included 18 high profile buildings around Victoria Harbour. Now, the project has grown into the Circle of Light - and has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest permanent light and sound show.

The final show has taken over three years to complete. Since 23 December 2005, 31 buildings located on either side of Victoria Harbour, have blossomed nightly into a dazzling display of visual firepower. The 11-minute show of 2004 has now become a 17-minute performance, with a kaleidoscope of effects including almost 15,000 dynamic lighting fixtures, Stella Ray YAGS producing thousands of high powered laser beams, world class pyrotechnics and a sound

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AVR showed the full Ledion range of LED units, including Ledion Ultra LU1, a single-color LED fixture; the Ultra LU3 and Ultra LU6, both universal MR16 fittings; the Ultra LU12, a multi-purpose up- or downlight fitting; and the Ultra LU5 range of optical and non-optical linear strips, available in 400, 800, and 1,200mm lengths.

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TMB showed several new products; one was the Enlux LED Floodlight, an Edison screw-based LED fixture that produces an 80° field, consumes 22W of power, has a 50,000 hour life and is available in 24 different colours. A Kupo DMX512 tester, shown at PLASA, was adopted by TMB in time for LDI as the ProTester. This small, brushed-aluminum diagnostic tool, with built-in LED flashlight, is a neat little unit with enough features to make it a worthwhile addition to most tool boxes.

TMB also showed three impressive and increasingly successful UK-made systems: the Hippotizer media server from Green Hippo; the excellent K2 motion control system from Kinesys, which was demonstrated by a moving truss arrangement above TMB's ever-busy seating area (see Clouseau, pages 52-53, for more of the K2); and the award-winning Pharos LPC. Pharos was also promoting its moving light data service to lighting c

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UK - At this year's PLASA Show, lantern manufacturer Robert Juliat launched a number of new products and upgraded a number of established lines. All of these, including the Lutin and the Super Korrigan, are now on-demo at Juliat's UK distributor, White Light - and a number of the products have already been snapped up by end users.

Leading the new products at PLASA was the Lutin - a 1kW tungsten washlight which, through interchangeable lenses, can be a fresnel, a plano-convex or a pebble-convex unit to provide the precise beam edge quality to suit any wash application. Ideally suited to rep theatres or rental companies, Lutin offers the maximum possible versatility from a much smaller investment than would be required to purchase separate lanterns of each type; the specially developed cable connection concealed within Lutin's rear handle also ensures that the luminaire is easy to

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