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USA - Chauvet Professional has introduced its first variable white LED ellipsoidal fixture, the Ovation E-930VW. Featuring a six-colour LED system, the new fixture can match ambient natural light at different times a day, making it suitable for broadcast applications that are exposed to sunlight.
With colour temperature pre-sets from 2800 K to 8000 K, the Ovation E-930VW produces a flat even field of light with a very high CRI (88-92) and CQS. Each color temperature produced by the fixture can be further adjusted +/- green to fine tune the light.
“We engineered the Ovation E-930VW to give designers tighter control over colour temperature, because the more precisely you can dial into the colour spectrum with white light, the better people will look on camera,” said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. “The Ovation E-930VW will excel when used for film, television, pop-

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USA - Visitors to the 2017 LDI Show in Las Vegas this November found ETC’s booth awash in colour, thanks to the new ColorSource CYC luminaire. Two 5.5m-tall cyc panels bookended the booth, each lit evenly and brightly in a range of tints and hues by the new LED fixtures. Show-goers were impressed – as were LDI’s judges, who honoured the ColorSource CYC with a Best Debuting Lighting Product award at a ceremony on Saturday night.
Technical product manager Dave Cahalane accepted the award on behalf of the development team. “With the ColorSource CYC, we tried to provide a fixture that had a broad range of beautiful colour in a compact size,” he explained in his acceptance speech.
The cyclorama light is the latest addition to the ColorSource family of products, which bring high-quality LED lighting and control to a more affordable price point. The ColorSource CYC
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Spain - Amate Audio continues the rollout of its new NÍTID series of ultra-compact, high performance active speaker systems with the introduction of the N208 compact line array and matched N18W / N218W sub woofer systems.
In common with all NÍTID systems, these employ the latest digital amplification and signal processing technologies, in symbiosis with advanced electroacoustic research and design, to achieve exceptional levels of performance and versatility from compact speaker systems.
The N208 and N18W / N218W systems offer premium performance from a compact line array, together with new standards of operational versatility and ease of setup and use, that includes optimised ‘plug & play’ power and system control presets for virtually instantaneous operation, says the company. Economies of scale in developing the system on a well-proven acoustic design, mak

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USA - Community has expanded the system design versatility of its I Series family with the new IV6 Modular Vertical Array 600 system. Aesthetically designed for installed indoor or outdoor applications, IV6 is a scalable, adaptive sound reinforcement system featuring wide-dispersion IV6-1122 array elements (12-inch, 2-way) available in two complementary vertical coverage angle versions (5° and 15°).
Built-in Passive Acoustic Optimization (PAO) settings on the rear of each loudspeaker allow up to 55 different frequency response profiles to be independently selected for each element in the array, providing unmatched SPL and frequency response consistency throughout a listening area without requiring costly additional amplifiers or DSP channels. Community’s exclusive PAO module included within EASE® Focus 3 software quickly calculates the ideal PAO settings for each louds

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USA - Elation Professional’s Artiste Dali LED moving head won the accolade for Best Debuting Product: Lighting at the recent LDI trade show in Las Vegas. It is the second notable industry award in the past two months for the Artiste Dali, having won a PLASA Award for Innovation in September.
The award came just a day after the Elation Chorus Line 16 LED batten was awarded a Gold Star Product Award by the editors and writers of PLSN magazine, and with the Proteus Hybrid also a 2017 PLASA Innovation Award winner and the Artiste DaVinci WH a Best Moving Light Award winner at the recent WFX show, the Elation trophy case is bulging.
The LDI 2017 Best Debuting Product Award was presented at an awards ceremony on Saturday, 18 November, on the AG Productions' megastructure stage at LDI: Live Outside at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. “It’s a chilly evening but this def

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USA - Ayrton received the LDI 2017 Award for the Most Creative Use of Light at last week’s LDI Show in Las Vegas.
The judges praised “Ayrton’s cool product presentation that physically re-engages the audience to show their products in a unique setting”. The light show was designed by top lighting designer Cory FitzGerald and programmed by Jason Baeri, and accepted on behalf of the company by Ayrton’s global sales manager, Michael Althaus.
Ayrton exhibited in a crystal dome play-zone that showcased all their latest products while visitors were invited to lounge in comfortable gaming chairs. Above them rose a pyramid composed of two opposing triangles of truss that carried bars of 30 alternating MagicPanel-FX and 20 IntelliPix-XT fixtures, flanked by 10 MagicBlade-FX; on the opposite sides were two triangular projection screens for showing off the gobo project

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The Netherlandds - NEC Display Solutions Europe will showcase its latest display technologies at ISE 2018, with a particular focus on solutions for retail signage, large venues and corporate conferencing.
The ISE show runs on 6-9 February at RAI Amsterdam, where NEC will unveil its new campaign theme, Create Endless Impressions, which highlights how its range of display technologies enables users to create experiences which engage, connect and impress audiences.
The stand highlights will include: NEC’s Direct View LED displays for both indoor and outdoor applications; Large sizes (up to 98”) of its V and P Series of Raspberry Pi-compatible displays, which enable new applications for sensor-based and context-aware signage; NEC’s new professional C Series large format displays for seamless integration (up to 98”); NEC InfinityBoard, the company’s all-in-

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USA - Chroma-Q ‘s Inspire XT fixture has won the 2017 PLSN Gold Star Product Award for Best New Interior Architectural Light at LDI 2017.
The Chroma-Q Inspire XT is the newest addition to the award-winning Chroma-Q Inspire colour-mixing LED house lighting range and is suitable for the house of worship, entertainment and architectural markets.
Paul Pelletier, brand manager for Chroma-Q, comments: “Public spaces within a venue are turning more and more into dynamic canvas. The Chroma-Q Inspire range facilitates this transition by bringing colored ambiance that can adapt to any situation and return back to a beautiful white light for a normal situation.”
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Europe - Prolight Concepts Group company eLumen8 recently released its latest range of professional moving heads - the Evora series, comprising three fixtures.
All units include three-phase motors, LEDs with dimming and display battery backup and an array of onboard features.
The eLumen8 Evora 1000 BSW is a 3-in-1 hybrid with a 180W LED and has a beam (4.5°), spot (20°) and wash (45°) modes. It also has eight facet circular and six facet linear rotating indexable prisms, motorised zoom and focus, frost filter, a colour wheel, a static gobo wheel and a rotating, indexable, replaceable gobos wheel.
The eLumen8 Evora 1000 Spot is designed for larger events and venues and is equipped with a 180W LED and colour wheel.
The compact eLumen8 Evora 500 Spot has a three facet indexable rotating prism, remote focus and manual zoom combined with vibrant colours and

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The Netherlands - L-Acoustics will be exhibiting at CUE, held from 15-17 January at the Rotterdam Ahoy in The Netherlands, where it will welcome visitors to stand 122 to meet the L-Acoustics team and learn more about the L-ISA Immersive Sound Art platform, view the new Syva colinear source system and the upcoming P1 networked digital audio processor.
Established in London in 2014 by L-Acoustics founder Dr. Christian Heil, L-ISA is L-Acoustics’ immersive sound brand. L-ISA draws on extensive audio and psychoacoustic research to develop sound design and processing tools for live shows, creative events and private residences. L-ISA is the only comprehensive solution that integrates innovative sound design, loudspeaker systems, proprietary processing hardware and software-based audio tools, says the company.
Syva, meanwhile, is a new breed of speaker, blending L-Acoustic

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France - APG will unveil APG Live Manager at the 2017 JTSE (Paris, 21 - 22 November, stand 94). The new software will be presented alongside the successful Uniline Compact loudspeaker system, which is currently proving a resounding success in fixed installations as well as staging applications, both in France and overseas.
A result of the combined work of both the Active Audio and APG R&D teams, the new APG Live Manager remote control and monitoring software offers increased performance in a new user friendly graphic interface, allowing the user to control the entire APG range of products, from the DMS26 and DMS48 external processors to the DA50:4 and DA15:4 DSP amplifiers, says the company.
APG Live Manager allows the user to work offline in order to remotely prepare for any type of project, even those which require a complex configuration, and perform a number of

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USA - Work Pro introduced a new range of hardware lighting consoles, LightShark, at LDI. Billed as the first DMX-based hardware lighting console range to offer wireless, browser-based control from a multi-touch smartphone or tablet, with support for up to three connected devices simultaneously, LightShark sets a new standard for features and usability at its price point, says the company.
The LightShark range comprises the LS-Core and the LS-1 console, both developed and designed entirely within Work Pro's lighting division. The LS-1 “brings together the best features from the world of innovative software-only lighting control and marries them to an intuitive, ergonomic assignable hardware control surface”. The LS-Core omits the LS-1’s hardware control surface, but offers exactly the same lighting control software, processing power, and smartphone/tablet-based software

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USA - SGM released an all-in-one IP65-rated LED luminaire, Q-10, at LDI.
With an output of 60,000 lm, this RGBW unit has the functionalities of a strobe light, a flood light, a pixel light, and a blinder with a non-fading continuous output. At the same time, the powerful and low-noise Q-10 is practically maintenance-free and comes with a user-friendly display, wireless control, and integrated handle making is easy to operate, transport, rig, and to focus, says the company.
As with all the other IP65-rated luminaires in SGM’s product range, the Q-10 comes with the SGM thermal management and is kept free of externally induced particles on internal optics and light sources. The internal built-in patented SGM dehumidifier further protects the fixture from moisture, smoke fluid, pollution, humidity, and any other factors that can generate corrosion.
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USA - Czech manufacturer Robe Lighting showcased its MegaPointe fixture for the first time in the USA at LDI 2017 in Las Vegas.
The moving light was presented with a 2017 PLSN Gold Star Product Award for Best New Hybrid Light and was the focus Robe’s lightshow which featured 42 x MegaPointes and a number of LEDBeam 150s, onePATTs, Divine UVs, Spiiders and pixelPATTs, while a freestyle mirror suit dancer performed hourly at booth 715. The stand design and the show’s choreography were conceived by Robe’s creative team led by Nathan Wan and Andy Webb.
Robe North America CEO Bob Schacherl described the show as “our busiest and most energised LDI to date”, adding: “The turnout of clients was amazing and validates our sales and marketing approach for the North American market.”
Robe’s architectural division Anolis had its own dedicated space on the boot

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USA - The recently-launched Hippotizer + range has already broken Green Hippo sales records and produced “an unprecedented number of sales enquiries”, the company claims.
The Hippotizer + Media Server range - comprising the Amba+, Boreal+, Karst+, Montane+, and Taiga+ - has yielded over 100 orders, all of which landed before the official product launch at LDI in Las Vegas on the 17 November.
James Roth, head of sales & marketing at Green Hippo commented: “I am delighted that pre-orders from our ROW territories have already passed the 100 units mark and this is before the official launch at LDI. With many major territories waiting until LDI, this will be by far and away the most successful Green Hippo product launch ever and we’re delighted at the response from the international markets.”
Green Hippo has logged sales enquiries from across the globe an

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USA - Harman Professional Solutions is introducing a full-featured LED moving head - the MAC Encore Wash - at LDI 2017 in Las Vegas.
Set to be released for sale in January, the unit will be available in two dedicated colour temperature variants: WRM for 3000K warm incandescent emulation, and CLD for 6000K neutral daylight. The WRM is a replacement for the discontinued MAC TW1, while the CLD is a LED-based alternative to the MAC Viper Wash DX. Both variants can also be used as replacements for tungsten or HMI based Fresnel fixtures.
“When we released MAC Encore Performance a few months back, we instantly had lighting industry influencers praising this new benchmark fixture in high quality LED lighting,” said Markus Klüsener, product manager - stage lighting, Harman Professional Solutions. “With the introduction of MAC Encore Wash we now have a fixture f

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USA - Claypaky is releasing a new range of the Axcor 300 family of moving LED fixtures at LDI 2017 in Las Vegas. It comprises of a spot, a wash and a beam, all driven by a white LED engine with a rated power of up to 180 Watts.
The Axcor Spot 300 has 17 gobos on two wheels, including seven dichroic rotating gobos. Weighing just 20kg and measuring a little over 500mm, this unit incorporates features that are not often found in models of this size, like a rotating prism, a motorised iris, a soft edge filter, a 16-bit dimmer, and a 8-40° zoom.
The Axcor Beam M 300 has an even more compact body, measuring less than 500mm, and is able to emit a super-concentrated solid beam with a beam angle as small as 2° and a surprising light output. The wealth and quality of its colours and aerial effects, its electronic focus and its 140mm diameter front lens make the Axcor Beam 300

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USA - ADB has landed at the LDI show in Las Vegas alongisde Claypaky and the Osram Group, who acquired the brand in 2016. Through in-depth market insight and advanced technological know-how, it aims to optimise the brand’s products after having updated production all over the world.
“ADB had already pioneered some of the key technologies used in theatre & studio lighting, such as digital dimmers, memory control systems, condenser optics for theatre spotlights and it was strongly established as a leading manufacturer”, says Simone Capeleto, ADB CEO.
“The range of services and products types that ADB now offers is one of the most complete on the market: ADB is mastering software and hardware development, as well as product engineering and production of all key components of a stage lighting system, i.e. luminaires, dimmers, control desks, networks and motoris

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USA - ADJ Lighting is debuting two new product ranges as well as showcasing other recent additions to its portfolio of lighting, video and effects equipment at LDI 2017.
The company is launching a new video panel range, the Design Series. This system comprises four modular panels of different shapes - DS4 (square), DS4T (triangle), DS4QC (quarter circle) and DS4HC (rectangle) - that can be combined into almost any shape and size of video screens.
The new MOD Series is ADJ’s latest range of professional LED pars. The range comprises four models, each featuring the same casing design, but with a different LED configuration: MOD QW100 (7 x 15W RGBW LEDs), MOD QA60 (4 x 15W RGBA LEDs), MOD HEX100 (7 x 15W RGBWA+UV LEDs) and MOD TW100 (7 x 15W CW/WW/WW/Amber 4-IN-1 variable colour temperature white LEDs – a LED chip made exclusively for ADJ).
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USA - BroadWeigh is set to meet with several of its product partners and end-users at LDI in Las Vegas to introduce them to the latest updates and additions to its product range.
One of the company’s latest developments is the BroadWeigh TwistLink – a smart piece of kit which allows a BroadWeigh 4.75 tonne shackle to be quickly connected to a 4.75 tonne or 3.25 tonne shackle without having to mess around with the pin, nut and Rclip. It has holes at 90 degrees to minimise potential torsion loading in the load pin and conforms to the European Machinery Directive.
This will be joined by the new Wind Speed Sensor foam insert which holds Wind Speed Sensors in both large and small BroadWeigh flight cases. The large case has undergone some changes so that accessories can now fit cleverly within the lid.
Jonathan Purdue, BroadWeigh’s business development manager c

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USA - A MagicDMX Basic USB-DMX interface giveaway and a new addition to the award-winning MagicQ Stadium series are among the highlights at LDI for ChamSys.
The company will be giving interfaces to the first 100 visitors to its booth (1415) who have downloaded and installed MagicQ on their PCs, Macs or Linux systems. (Details of that offer can be found on www.chamsysusa.com/news_ldishow)
Certain to draw a lot of attention at the ChamSys booth is the MagicQ Stadium Wing. The new product delivers “the highest level of show control in a compact package”, thanks to features like its 30 Playbacks, 4 Execute Encoders and a full HD multi touch display with adjustable viewing angle and gesture support.
“We’re extremely excited about the MagicQ Stadium Wing,” said Phil Watson, ChamSys USA director. “It is going to open a lot of doors for lighting designers an

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USA - Cadac USA director of operations Ron Lorman is steering the British live mixing console and audio networking company into LDI following appearances at WFX and the AES.
Cadac is exhibiting in LDI Amplify (booth # 3177), the indoor audio pavilion focusing on professional audio equipment and solutions. There, the company is promoting its CDC consoles and MegaCOMMS network.
“The Cadac CDC audio system offers an industry leading mixing and networking solution, dedicated to the highest audio quality and performance requirements of live sound production; with significantly lower signal latency and discernibly higher audio quality than competing solutions,” says Lorman. “CDC MegaCOMMS is a dedicated live production network solution that ensures the superlative audio performance of CDC six and CDC seven series mixing consoles across a complete network.”
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USA - Doughty Engineering’s new Space Saver Omega will make its US debut at this year’s LDI Show in Las Vegas. The original Space Saver was launched in the US at LDI last year and quickly became one of Doughty’s hit products.
Mark Chorley, design engineer at Doughty said: "The original Space Saver was a really simple concept that we designed after considering how cumbersome a clamp can be to store and transport. The idea that it can be folded down and therefore easier to move from place to place, has really been a huge benefit to our customers. But we always see room for improvement and as such we've made a few tweaks to make the item even more user friendly.”
He continued: “The Omega version of the Space Saver sees one of Doughty’s Omega clamps permanently fitted to a lumiere with a hinge that locks into place. In the closed position, the lumiere can be pu

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USA - Robe (booth 715) will showcase its new MegaPointe multi-functional moving light, bringing all the excitement and buzz of real live performance to the exhibition floor at the Robe City Music Hall which will present the MegaPointe Live show.
Visitors can also see several other new products being shown for the first time at a U.S trade show including the BMFLTM LightMaster and from the PATT range, Pixel PATTTM, PATT 2017TM and onePATT TM.
Visitors can also enjoy the Robe team’s carefully curated atmospheric engineering which will include a Happy Hour on Friday and Saturday from 3 – 6pm complete with their famous Czech hospitality.
Robe and sister company, architectural LED specialist Anolis, which has its own dedicated section of the booth, are looking forward to a lively and buoyant show connecting with existing industry clients, fans and friends as well
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