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UK - Rosco has formed a joint venture partnership with The Black Tank, an advanced engineering group located north of Boston, MA to design, develop and distribute LED lighting fixtures to the entertainment and architecture markets.

The immediate result of this partnership was seen last weekend at the opening of the IBC Exhibition in Amsterdam and at the PLASA Show in London where Rosco debuted Miro Cube, its new line of wash lights based on Black Tank's successful Brick Blaster fixtures. Three luminaires - Miro Cube 4C, Miro Cube WNC, and Miro Cube UV as well as a range of innovative mounting accessories - are targeted at lighting professionals in live entertainment, film & television, museums & architecture, and theme parks.

"First of all, the products are fantastic. The engineering is so elegant and the light output is astounding. You can't believe it's coming out of th

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USA - Chauvet Professional will showcase a wide variety of products at this year's Worship Facilities Conference & Expo show, scheduled for 19-21 September in Atlanta, Ga.

On display at will be fixtures from the VIP Series of video products, the new line of trussing TRUSST, Parnelli Awards nominee Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yoke and powerful moving yokes Q-Spot 560-LED and Q-Wash 560Z-LED.

Representing the COLORado family of wash lights are COLORado Zoom Tour, COLORado Zoom WW Tour and COLORado Zoom 2 Tour fixtures.

Additionally, Chauvet Professional will highlight fixtures from the Iluminarc line of architainment interior and exterior lighting solutions.

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - MediaLas has added new enhancements to the high end Infinity show laser projectors. Already the recipient of two industry awards, the Infinity is still MediaLas' "top-of-the-line product with many unconventional und extremely useful features for professional event companies and exclusive clubs."

"Besides the well-known, superb beam and color quality, the Infinity has been enhanced on the processing side," says the company. "A new firmware boosts both safety and reliability of the entire system. The computerized safety inside the Infinity even corrects user programming errors in some ways, be limiting the single point exposure time of the laser deflection system, and therefore smoothing the total irradiance of high powered laser rays. Further firmware updates have been released for the network client inside the Infinity, that allows to control t

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UK - The new Philips Platinum 5R beam moving head is at the heart of PR Lighting's latest automated stage light, the XR 200 Beam.

Sturdy, compact and with a highly developed optical path, the fixture offers "enormous brightness in a compact form factor, with a weight of just 16kg".

At the same time, PR Lighting has worked considerably on the design and structure so that in addition to its weight advantage the movement is also faster and the running much quieter, while the legendary colour, gobo and prism/frost filter wheel ensure that it is fully featured. In fact the colour wheel boasts 14 dichroic colours, the fixed gobo wheel has 17 gobos (plus white) and the Prism/Frost Wheel contains CTO, frost, and 8-facet prism (plus white). The fixture offers 540° pan and 270° tilt, with a beam angle of 0°-4° (linearly adjustable).

(Jim Evans)

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UK - At PLASA 2012 in London, Sommer Cable - alongside its established catalogue of products -exclusively presented the NL4FX-SOM cable socket, a special version designed in close cooperation with Neutrik.

Peter Rieck, key account & distribution manager for Sommer Cable commented, "This year the PLASA show was again a big success for Sommer Cable. We were able to reach many customers and attract new customers. Next year the fair will move to the Excel Exhibition Centre and we have already confirmed stand space."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Held this year in Indianapolis, CEDIA Expo 2012 proved that there is positive growth in the residential electronics sector with more than 450 exhibitors participating, and over 16,900 attendees from 71 different countries.

Among companies taking full advantage, and successfully test launching several new solutions to the home technology professional were world leaders in optical screen technology, dnp denmark.

Global sales & marketing manager, S°ren Kraemmergaard, was making his fourth visit to CEDIA and noting the consistently high footfall on the dnp booth, he had no hesitation in describing it as "the best ever" for his company.

"We received a lot of serious interest from reps, dealers and integrators who were not only focused on home theatre but also equipping sports bars and even big commercial venues."

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UK - At PLASA 2012, Spotlight promoted a comprehensive LED range. The company wanted to present in London the latest products of the new Green Line family specifically projected for performing arts and TV studios.

With the three new FresneLED 250 White Tunable, ProfiLED 200 and ProfiLED 250 RGBW - Spotlight LED range attracted an audience as probably the most complete LED products line of the highest quality and efficiency today available on the market.

The luminaires of this wide range are characterised by excellent performances, energy saving, clean light without heat and UV/IR emission.

ProfiLED 250W RGBW, optical discharge profile spot, was the real highlight of the event, showing a light power equal to the one of a traditional halogen 2000W and with an extreme precision of the projection.

ProfiLED 250W RGBW impressed because it is innovative, versatile and interesting

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The Netherlands The BroaMan brand, the new start-up from optical fibre network giants Optocore proved a major highlight at IBC 2012, and the stand design, featuring the BroaMan columns, grabbed the attention of an enthusiastic audience.

According to application engineer, Kari Eythorsson customers returned to the booth three or four times to discuss what Optocore/BroaMan tools could do for their applications, assisted by pens and sketchpads.

The main product focus at the show was the new addition to the BroaMan DiViNe (Digital Video Network) portfolio - which provides scalable, protocol independent, routing, repeating, transport and distribution of multiple professional video signals, such as SD/HD/3G-SDI, over optical fibre. This was in the form of the V3R-FX-INTERCOM-SDI, which conveniently packs up to six 3G/HD/SD-SDI I/O's and CWDM multiplexer, four ClearCom (or RTS) interc

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UK - A high build-quality and very versatile range of flexible LED strips is available from OMC, the pioneer in LED lighting, backlighting and industrial fibre optic transmission. Unlike many LED lighting strips which are designed for relatively short-term, decorative use, OMC's Flexistrip product uses closely spaced, ultra high brightness LEDs and incorporate a number of features that ensure long-lasting, bright and even illumination. Strips can be cut to length with scissors and fixed in place using the pre-fitted, high bonding adhesive foam tape backing.

Suitablefor a wide range of industrial and sign-making applications, Flexistrip LED strips benefit from in-built electrostatic and reverse-polarity protection and an extra-thick copper substrate for enhanced reliability and longevity. Positive and negative connections to a low voltage supply power the strips, and a simple two

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UK - MilTec (UK) Ltd and UK distributor MT-Pro Ltd. reported a busy PLASA with visitors to the stand right from the moment the show opened.

"We had a steady flow of existing customers and lots of inquiries from new contacts right through the show," said sales director David Faulkes, "Much of this interest was due to the new products that we were showing. We have been looking very carefully at the needs of the market and have focussed on designing multi-function products, giving the best value for money". This approach has led to innovations in both the LEDHead LED Lighting and MT Professional Acoustics ranges.

On the lighting side the company showed the EPW2 moving head luminaire and the batten based CycWash system, both using LED technology and both fulfilling multiple roles. The EPW2 is fitted with a 150W white LED for use as a spot luminaire and 8x 9W tr

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UK - At PLASA 2012, Klark Teknik launched its pioneering DN9610 AES50 multichannel digital audio network connector.

The Klark Teknik DN9610 - a cost-effective solution for extending AES50 multichannel digital audio network connections (Cat 5e/Cat 6 cabling) to greater distances than previously achievable - was showcased for the first time on MIDAS' impressive PLASA stand.

Housed in a rugged, compact, alloy case, and enclosed in a shock-absorbing silicone sleeve, the DN9610 will fit almost anywhere, being no larger than many D.I boxes.

Each DN9610 is capable of extending two AES50 streams by up to 100m (330ft). Provision is made for dual redundant power supplies, with automatic, seamless recovery in the unlikely event of a power supply failure. Power supplies are multi-region and feature locking DC connectors to ensure against inadvertent disconnection.

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Canada - CAST Group of Toronto has just released the latest version of its industry standard and pre-visualisation suite, wysiwyg R29. R29 is available to download from the Members ONLY section of the CAST website.

wysiwyg is the award-winning tool for professionals in the production industry that enables lighting designers to create previsualisations and renders of a planned event, without having to spend time and money making it happen at the venue in advance. The software is so named because what you see is exactly what you get. What's more, it encourages creativity because previsualisation means it is quick and easy to try out concepts and tweak ideas.

Version R29 builds on the considerable advancements in R28 launched by CAST earlier this year. Feedback from beta testing on R29 has been unanimously positive, says the company, with experienced users commending the multitud

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UK - The 2012 PLASA Show, Earls Court saw the teams from Philips Entertainment brands Vari-Lite, Strand Lighting and Selecon each introduce a number of new products to the industry. In addition Philips Entertainment launched Showline a range of dynamic feature rich, LED luminaires providing professional performance, exceptional feature sets and one common user interface.

"Showline is a range of super-efficient, professional entertainment LED fixtures created specifically for a broad spectrum of events from concert touring to Theatre and TV to corporate shows and cruise ships," explains David March, director of European Sales for Vari-Lite. "We had an excellent response at PLASA to Showline! The products were well received by designers and rental companies alike. Showline is destined to become a leader in entertainment LED Luminaires and will receive the same world

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UK - Following the recent news of XL Video Group's investment in 66 new high brightness projectors from Belgium's Barco, XL Video UK now has the first of these units available for rental.

XL Video UK, with offices near London and Birmingham, is the first UK company to take delivery of the new Barco HDF-W26 and HDQ-2K40 projectors.

The new 26K models will, over time, replace XL's existing fleet of 20K projectors, which have been used on high-profile projects such as the projections on Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert.

The Barco projectors are available for rental immediately.

(Jim Evans)

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Switzerland - Schertler has recently teamed its popular STAT series of contact microphones for violin, viola, 'cello and double bass with its Yellow Single and Yellow Blender portable preamps to create two new live/studio packages aimed at string players and sound engineers. STAT-PRO packs combine Schertler's STAT-V, STAT-C or STAT-B pickups with the new Yellow Single preamp, while the STAT-ROAD packs combine Schertler's flagship Yellow Blender preamp with each pickup.

Developed for use in loud musical environments with high levels of amplification, such as rock or jazz performances, the bridge-mounted STAT pickups are specially designed to accurately reproduce the warm sound of the instrument's strings with no harshness or distortion. As well as being easy to install with no damage to the instrument, the pickups are also highly resistant to feedback making them a popular choice

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Germany - With the EKI 830 bodypack receiver, audio specialist Sennheiser ensures that users with a hearing impairment can enjoy superior sound quality at cultural, entertainment or business events. The receiver brings all the features and advantages of private hearing aids to the field of professional events. With this new product, Sennheiser is helping theatres, cinemas and opera houses as well as conference and congress centres to offer their guests optimum audio support, says the company.

The receiver is designed to offer persons with a hearing impairment optimum support and user-friendly operation at all types of events. "Professional hearing support at cultural and business events is becoming increasingly important. Thanks to the new software version that equips the EKI 830 receiver, we can ensure that users with a hearing impairment can enjoy perfect sound quality, w

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Denmark - In a newly released video, Martin Professional reveals how the company has solved the persistent problem of uneven colours across LEDs. Product manager Jonathan Meineke explains how Martin achieves colour consistency straight out of the factory using LED colour calibration.

The problem of uneven LED colour is well known - LED video screens with patchy, uneven colours or 12 LED wash lights with 12 different versions of the 'same' colour. Despite advances in LED manufacturing, even LEDs in so-called 'tight' bins have noticeable differences in colour and these differences get exponentially worse when mixing colours. Martin uses colour calibration across its entire LED product line to eliminate this problem.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - Cerwin-Vega! has introduced its new P-Series professional PA system, which delivers "a new standard in power and bass punch, suited for any sound reinforcement application, from live performances to public speeches". The P-Series family includes two active speaker products: the P1500X and the P1800SX.

The heart of the P-Series is the P1500X, a two-way, bi-amped, full-range bass-reflex speaker. It employs a 15-inch woofer and high-frequency compression driver, powered by a custom Class-D amp. With a rating of 1500W, the P1500X is the most powerful PA product in its price class. A proprietary hemi-conical horn provides enhanced sound clarity over an even and wide coverage area.

A built-in mixer with I/O connections allows for simple and fast setup, while enhanced EQ, VEGA BASS boost and high-pass filters enable exact tuning and exceptional performance for any eve

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Germany - Patents in the US and Germany have been granted to AFMG for their Real Time Deconvolution technology. Further patents are pending. Real Time Deconvolution algorithms are the significant factor in SysTune's unrivaled performance at impulse response processing. No other audio measurement software is able to deliver full-length impulse responses and other measurement data derived from them in real time, says the organisation.

"An impulse response," explains Stefan Feistel, managing director of AFMG, "contains all the information that can be derived from the measurement of a linear, time-invariant system, such as loudspeaker systems, rooms and the like. Magnitude and phase transfer functions can be extracted from an impulse response just as all parameters of electro and room acoustics. In order to evaluate STI, RT, C50 or many other parameters of room acoust

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UK - Chauvet showed new fixtures at PLASA 2012 and introduced its line of architainment interior and exterior lighting solutions Iluminarc.

Chauvet Professional showcased Ovation, a new line of theatrical fixtures, Legend 230SR Beam compact and bright moving spot, Q-Wash 436Z-LED powerful zooming LED wash, COLORdash Par Quad-18 and COLORdash nPar Quad-7 LED PAR-style fixtures, COLORdash Batten Quad-6 linear light and COLORado Deco Quad-1 Tour accent fixture, all of which are soon to be available.

The Chauvet stand featured a lighting design created by Knight of Illumination award nominee Tom Sutherland, and the Chauvet Professional team hosted a panel discussion on LED lighting with Richard Pilbrow, Rick Fisher, Fred Foster and Jeremy Hoare. Additionally, Chauvet was one of the sponsors for the fifth annual Knight of Illumination Awards, organized by STLD, ALD.

(Jim Evans)

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USA - TC Electronic will exhibit its state-of-the-art, BS.1770-3 compliant processing and metering solutions for System 6000 MKII at AES 2012 in San Francisco (Booth 1019).

For the first time, AES visitors will be able to experience 'Live Aid' processing for System 6000 MKII. The Live Aid license includes the ALC6 algorithm that introduces no less than five innovative, industry-first features. Without sacrificing audio quality, even OB and Live production may now comply with the latest international standards on loudness and true-peak level.

Live Aid also contains the DMix algorithm that is able to downmix, loudness process, headphone optimize and true-peak limit any mono, stereo or 5.1 source. Precise conditioning of a program for Mobile TV, iPod or IPTV is now possible, thus creating a perfect 5.1 audio and a Mobile feed directly off the OB truck.

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The Netherlands - Alcons Audio has announced the release of high-resolution measurement and simulation data for Alcons' L-series pro-ribbon line-arrays and Q-series pro-ribbon column-arrays.

The data is supplied in GLL (Generic Loudspeaker Library) format for use with the EASE 4.3 acoustic prediction programme and the newly released ARC2™ (Alcons Ribbon Calculator) array set-up tool, which is based on the EASE Focus 2 program.

By using GLL in EASE, the performance of an Alcons sound system in a suggested acoustic environment can now be predicted with a very high degree of accuracy. The generated simulation includes reverb times, speech intelligibility and other parameters and can be viewed both in horizontal as well as vertical planes. Also multiple arrays in one simulation is possible.

"We are very happy to be able to make GLL available for our products," say

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UK - Audio-Technica, UK distributor for Allen & Heath mixing desks, will be on hand to help show a variety of the company's Xone professional DJ products at BPM 2012 between 6-8 October at Birmingham's NEC.

The array of Xone units on display will include the Xone:DB2 and Xone:DB4 digital FX mixers and the impressive 6-channel Xone:92 club/DJ mixer. Aimed at creative DJ/producers, the Xone:4D 20 channel USB audio interface and Xone:K2 MIDI controller will also be in evidence at the show, alongside the XD2-53 monitoring headphones.

Allen & Heath is also supporting two BPM education seminars - an FX mixing masterclass powered by Xone:DB2 and DB4 and 'Basic MIDI mapping', powered by a Xone:K2 - both presented by DJ and producer Mark EG. In addition, members of the Xone product development team will be on hand at BPM to advise visitors on getting the most from their mixers and othe

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UK - Professional lighting sales company Lightfactor enjoyed a busy PLASA 2012 exhibition at Earls Court in London, with lots of activity on the stand and plenty of interest in key product ranges.

Says Lightfactor's Peter Coles, "It was another good show for us. Lightfactor specialises in offering a variety of different high quality products, and there is definitely a market demand right now for 'quality'. Other than that, we saw many existing and a good selection of potential new customers."

Lightfactor chose the show to launch its new exclusive distribution partnership with soundlight.de, German manufacturers of a whole range of neat and handy DMX tools. This generated a real buzz and attendees were impressed with the RDM and systems relay widgets in particular.

There was also serious interest in innovative Italian lighting manufacturer DTS, for whom Lightfactor

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