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USA - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light returns to exhibiting at LDI in Orlando this year, after a several years absence from the show floor. The reason for the return - new products from i-Pix and Core Lighting, both companies are members of the White Light Family of manufacturers distributed by White Light.

On the White Light booth, i-Pix will be showing their new LED Beamlight, which surprised and delighted many on its first appearance at the PLASA Show in London in September. The fixture offers a new, low-energy alternative to the classic ACL effect, and is described by i-Pix as being "unlike any other LED fixture you have ever seen". The compact fixture is available with RGBW, RGBA, daylight white, UV and other light engines, creating a focusable beam that can be adjusted from+/-35degrees, with the highlight a tight 5 degree beam.

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USA - LumenRadio will later this week showcase SuperNova 2.0 and other new developments at the LDI show in Orlando. The entire LumenRadio CRMX wireless DMX, RDM, and DALI product line-up will also be on display in distributor TMB's LDI village.

SuperNova 2.0 had its debut at the recent PLASA show in London and garnered intense interest from a steady stream of visitors. SuperNova's RDM capabilities have been extended to wired networks and now offer unified connectivity and user-interface for systems that utilize a combination of wired and wireless DMX/RDM signal distribution.

"We have received tons of positive feedback on the changes we made for SuperNova 2.0. The ability to monitor and interact with the DMX flow through the whole system has transformed the product from a configuration utility to a full-fledged tool for system setup, control, testing, and fault finding; so

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USA - At LDI this week, Christie is launching the YK50 dual-arm moving yoke and projector system, and Christie AutoStack 2.0, a camera-based, software-driven solution used to automatically align and blend images in multi-projector arrays.

Designed to stimulate the senses and simulate a concert stage, the Christie booth also features the rest of the Christie Nitro Solutions family (Christie YK100 and Christie YK200), the North American debut of Christie J Series - the next generation of Christie's Xenon 3-chip DLP projector platform, and the multiple award-winning Christie MicroTiles. Two Christie Spyder X20 video processors are driving all content displayed on the stand.

The Christie YK50 is a small, dual-arm projector yoke. Designed for use with the Christie LX700 or Christie LHD700 projector, the Christie YK50 is suitable for moving projection applications in houses of worsh

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USA - PLASA has announced the winners of the 2011 Members' Choice Awards presented on Saturday, October 27th at the LDI and PLASA awards ceremony. The awards recognised newly released, outstanding entertainment technology products. Voting on these awards was open to all employees of PLASA member companies who attended the LDI show. The 2011 winners are:

Gadget Category

Apollo Design Technology's Wrenchmate 2:

An adjustable wrench with a closed-end wrench built into the handle with three different sizes to provide easy access to the common sizes found on lighting fixture clamps.

Equipment Category

LightConverse 3D Show Platform Version 52:

Integrates and visualizes multiple show-related disciplines including lighting, video, laser, pyrotechnics, and moving objects. New features include 3D Object Tracking capabilities and the ability to realistically visual

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UK - The new Chroma-Q Color Force Compact is a powerful creative lighting tool that works in harmony with the popular Color Force range. The Compact is billed as a cost-effective workhorse, suitable for a wide range of applications. Utilising core LED technology from the Color Force range, the fixture provides 1700 lumens in a cost-effective, slim, compact profile while maintaining color compatibility with the rest of the range.

Despite measuring only 235mm / 9.25" in length, the Color Force Compact produces a powerful 1700 lumens output - making it suitable for lighting areas with a very small footprint.

Up to five fixtures can be daisy-chained from each 15-way Compact PSU output, eliminating the need to home-run a cable from each fixture back to the PSU. In addition, up to four fixtures per output can be daisy-chained on a Chroma-Q Color Block PSU (PSU-05B, PSU530).

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UK - Cooper Controls has announced the launch of Version 7.0 ZerOS software for the Zero 88 Leap Frog 48, Leap Frog 96, Frog 2 and ORB Series consoles.

ZerOS 7.0 is the most substantial update to the ZerOS software platform to date, incorporating over 30 new features including: a completely redesigned look and style for an enhanced, clearer user interface; Colour Filter lookup - match your moving lights to any Lee, Rosco or Apollo filter using on-screen palette keys or syntax; A new 'Fixture Levels' window to provide instant view and modification of tracking data for the entire cue stack.

"The launch of ZerOS 7.0 is a testament to the investment Cooper has made in Zero 88 over the last four years. During this time our software capability has been growing and growing, and the launch of ZerOS 7.0 is the latest addition to this powerful platform" commented Peter Kirkup,

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies' lighting division will showcase the latest film, television and broadcast products from its key distributed brands at the BVE North show, Manchester Central 16-17 November.

Chroma-Q's Color Force and Studio Force LED battens and fixtures will be highlighted - specifically the new Studio Force LED range - which has been designed for TV, film, studio and touring applications as well as exhibitions, corporate events and theatre shows.

Studio Force is available in 12" (300mm), 48" (1.2m) and 72" (1.8m) versions, and the range features a choice of 6,100K CCT, daylight white (Studio Force D) and 3,000K - 6,100K CCT, variable white (Studio Force V) models - between them providing an extreme output ranging from 5,300 up to 28,000 lumens.

AC-ET carries one of the largest stocks of Manfrotto and Avenger stands and grip in Europe, an

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USA - Elation Professional has introduced two new LED par cans - Opti RGBA and OPTI QA. The Opti RGBA is a compact yet powerful stage wash that produces "an infinite rainbow of eye-popping colours via its 36 1-watt LEDs: 10 Red, 10 Green, 10 Blue and six Amber. The Opti QA is the same case design but is powered by 18 x 5W RGBA LEDs that feature Elation's exclusive Quad-Color technology, combining red, green, blue and amber in one LED source.

Adding amber to the LED mix gives the colours a deeper, more zesty glow, making the Opti RGBA suitable choice for a wide variety of stage, theatrical, concert, video and display applications, where a warmer-toned wash is desired, says the company.

"We developed the Opti RGBA as an updated model to our popular Opti RGB with improvements for lighting pros who want the same great features but more colour range as well as power con i

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET's rigging division, the exclusive UK distributor of Litec truss has announced the latest evolution of their most popular truss range QX30S.

The new version, named QX30AC, has been developed directly for A.C. Rigging in answer to requests from some of its most prolific customers and is a direct evolution of the most widely used truss from the manufacturer.

The primary feature of the new QX30AC is a change to the main chords of the truss, which now feature a 48.3mm outer dimension tube with a wall thickness of 3mm. Additionally, the diagonals have been changed to a 16mm x 2mm tube to keep weight down while maintaining maximum strength of the structure.

This change makes the truss even more useful as a key rental product. The thicker wall makes the truss more robust to knocks and bumps and the 48mm O.D. means the truss can be used wit

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USA - At a well-attended dinner in the Peabody Orlando, which took place during the recent LDI 2011 show, Martin Audio's MLA (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array) system was awarded the Parnelli Indispensable Technology 'IT' Award in the audio category.

Hosted by comics Flo and Eddie, a.k.a. Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, the 11th Annual Parnelli Awards Dinner honoured lifetime achievement award Winner Ed Wannebo, audio innovator Kenton Forsyth and Parnelli visionary Jim Fackert, along with 24 individuals, companies and products that made significant contributions to the growth and evolution of the live production industry in 2011.

Managing director Anthony Taylor and director of US operations Rob Hofkamp were on hand to accept the award for Martin Audio.

Taylor commented: "It was a real honour to be recognised by our peers in the industry and particularly with such a pres

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USA - City Theatrical's SHoW DMX SHoW Baby won the Best Debuting Product in the Widget category at LDI 2011. Widgets are simple or inexpensive products that lighting users find indispensible in hanging their shows.

SHoW Baby is a wireless DMX transceiver, meaning it can be either a transmitter or a receiver. As the LDI judges pointed out in the awards ceremony, SHoW Baby has the easiest user's manual around. "For a Transmitter, plug DMX in, for a Receiver, don't."

SHoW Baby utilizes a clever DMX input jack that senses when a DMX cable from the lighting console is plugged in, and configures itself to be a Transmitter. Without sensing DMX in, it configures itself as a Receiver. There are no other user choices to make and SHoW Baby is entirely plug and play, with no buttons to push, settings to adjust, or menu options to choose.

(Jim Evans)

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UAE - Launching at IFSEC Arabia in November, Baldwin Boxall's new CARE2 range will be demonstrated to visitors at INTERSEC, Dubai (15-17January 2012).

CARE2 is an Emergency Voice Communication System which includes firefighter telephones, roaming telephones, disabled refuge points and disabled toilet alarms on one system. The new radial wired system is simple to install and operate.

Also on the stand will be the popular CallCare Assistance Call System and the well established VIGIL EVAS voice evacuation rack system.

(Jim Evans)

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Australia - LSC Lighting Systems in partnership with Open Clear have been busy finalising the development of a range of new powerful consoles that will "finally offer the market a real alternative for the world's most demanding productions".

Following the successful preview of the smallest console in the range - Clarity LX300 - at the PLASA 2011 show in London, LSC showed the other end of the spectrum with a preview of the flagship LX900 at the LDI show in Orlando, Florida.

The range features three Clarity models, the LX300, LX600 and LX900 all with touch screens, multiple programmers, unlimited undo/redo, Fader Ident for playback mode indication, media server integration, LED pixel mapping and innovative Rig Schematic patching, which allows importing of rig or venue images to overlay patched fixtures making your fixture selection quick and easy. In addition all fade

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USA - Following their success at this year's PLASA in London by winning an Innovation Award, ELC Lighting's Green-GO digital show communications system designer Joost van Eenbergen and sales manager Silvio Cibien have returned from LDI in Orlando with a second award: the LDI 2011 Best Debuting Product of the Year award in the sound category.

Silvio Cibien said, "After winning the PLASA Innovation award in London we were delighted to pick up another award in the USA. We have attended every LDI since we started the company back in 1998, but this has been the best one for us. There was great interest in Green-GO, especially after we won the award, and because of this we started signing up regional distributors in the USA on the booth."

Green-GO is a new intercom system that provides high quality digital voice communications, as well as optional and messages with cue li

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China - UK-based Studiomaster and Carlsbro exhibited at Music China this year, unveiling several new and improved product ranges. Immediately after the exhibition, both companies hosted a joint international distributor conference at the Ningbo HQ of their Soundking Group parent company, south of Shanghai.

Studiomaster and Carlsbro exhibited together with their national distributor Highsun Audio, showing new products, including first sight of the new Carlsbro VAC series valve guitar combo and an electronic drum kit, as well as newly revamped and uprated Stingray, Sherwood and Colt amplifier series.

International sales director Andrew Bishop stated, "Carlsbro VAC is the first series in a range of amplification which meets requirements, advised to us by our international distributors, for affordable, high performance backline amps. The styling, specification and tone of the

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USA - Audica Professional has announced that it has gained UL approval for its MICROseries loudspeakers. The approvals include UL1480 and UL2043 for the MICROdot ceiling loudspeaker and UL1480 for the MICROpoint and MICROline on-wall loudspeakers. The MICROzone and MICROplus electronics are cTUVus approved.

"At this year's Infocomm the interest in Audica Professional from contractors was excellent," commented Audica Professional's sales director, Derek West, "They appreciated the styling and audio quality, but it was clear that UL approvals were needed before the product was going to be specified on a larger scale and in most public buildings. We have a great distributor, with TC Group Americas, and now with North American approvals we are confident that we will see significant growth in the American markets".

Audica Professional's MICROseries offers audio

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USA - This year's WFX Worship Facilities Show, from 9-11 November in Dallas, is shaping up to be the biggest in the event's history. Renkus-Heinz will be showcasing some of its latest loudspeaker products, including IC2 (IC Squared), the first digitally steerable array that combines the power and focus of point source loudspeaker technology with the control and flexibility of a digitally steerable line array.

Also on display will also be the newest iteration of Renkus-Heinz's Iconyx low-profile digitally steerable arrays, the IC8-R MkII and IC16-R MkII, featuring triple tweeter technology. Along with demonstrations of Renkus-Heinz technologies including RHAON Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network and BeamWare Iconyx digital beam steering and configuration software, the company will also be exhibiting their CF-101LA modular point source array loudspeakers.

Away from the booth,

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USA - Chauvet won the Best Big Booth award at LDI 2011 in Orlando. "I am very grateful for all the hard work and creativity that went into this INfectious presentation. Congratulations to all and special kudos to the marketing team, the product team and the tradeshow setup crew," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet and Iluminarc.

Almost 300 Chauvet MVP video panels were interlocked into a large-scale wall framing out the booth on three sides to create an immersive experience. Against that backdrop, a truss spider held over 200 fixtures, including the premiering COLORado Zoom Tour wash lights and Legend 412 LED moving yokes. At the floor level, a runway was flanked by Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving heads and the new Épix Series of pixel mapping fixtures running on ArKaos Kling-Net protocol.

four days for the Chauvet team to set up the 'Infectious' booth, using seven un

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UK - On 16-17 November lighting supplier White Light is to appear at BVE North at the Manchester central Arena to display their products specifically designed for the TV and Studio market.

On stand 410 will be the KLA 600 Softlight from Galaxia, offering flicker free soft light with adjustable colour temperature (2700 - 6500°K). It can be controlled locally via a handset, which allows accurate settings to be replicated across multiple standalone units, or via DMX. Robust & reliable, it offers a 30% reduction in power consumption over fluorescent softlights.

Robert Juliat's Aledin 330LF offers a high output LED, a 200mm Fresnel lens; the fixture gives a very powerful wash effect. Economical, the330LF extends colour media life due to its low heat output, and requires fewer maintenance calls thanks to its extra-long-life LED.

The RevEAL Studio from Prism Projection is a pro

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USA - American DJ's new Event Bar DMX is an all-in-one LED scanning light system that features four bright white 3W LED pinspots mounted on an X-Y movement bar.

A 'turnkey' lighting system for nightclubs, stage productions, concerts, mobile entertainers, retail displays, trade shows and special events, the Event Bar DMX is easy to set up and operate, says the company. It is also a very versatile lighting tool that can handle everything from illuminating a large dance floor, to table or cake spotting for that big wedding day or corporate event.

"The Event Bar DMX is a true, go-anywhere scanning light system that has virtually endless uses," said Alfred Gonzales, national sales manager for American DJ. "One of its coolest features is that it has a strobe effect and dimming on each pinspot head, so each of the heads can be operated independently of the others to cr

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USA - Gemini LSV of Dallas, Texas, will be holding an open house on 16-17 November, demonstrating the Parasol KLR-10 system. Gemini became the first company in the world to purchase this system. The KLR system is Parasol's second product that enables a designer to move the source point of a number of automated lighting fixtures along a pre-defined path. The KLR system is based on a patent application filed by Parasol earlier this year.

The system will be featured at Gemini's annual open house, with location details available at www.geminilightsoundvideo.com.

Parasol's CEO, Hermann Fruhm, remarked that this first important sale is "a milestone that will be indelibly marked in Parasol's history, much like the first use of automated lights by Genesis in 1981."

(Jim Evans)

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USA - High End Systems has announced a new Wholehog MIDI/LTC Widget and cosmetic changes to other existing Wholehog accessory products.

The new MIDI/LTC widget replaces the original LTC Widget and adds additional MIDI functionality with MIDI in/out/thru capability. Packaged in a lightweight metallic black case, the Wholehog MIDI/LTC Widget connects to any USB enabled Windows PC, Road Hog console, or Wholehog 3 console to provide a single Linear Timecode input as well as MIDI input/output capabilities.

When used in conjunction with a Wholehog 3 console, Road Hog console, or Hog 3PC software, the new MIDI/LTC Widget provides a powerful level of timecode and MIDI functionality. This configuration provides an excellent solution for backup and show control applications, says the company.

All other Wholehog Widgets have also changed packaging to a modern, lightweight metallic blac

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USA - ETC's Source Four Fresnel, which launched earlier this year, picked up the Best Product award in the Equipment category at the LDI/PLASA Awards ceremony in Orlando this month.

Voting for the awards, which recognise newly released and outstanding entertainment technology products, was open to all employees of PLASA member companies who attended the LDI show.

Customers had been asking for a Source Four Fresnel for years - but ETC waited to make a winner, says the company. The dichroic reflector design enables a Source Four Fresnel equipped with a 750W HPL lamp to equal the lumens output of other manufacturers' 1000W Fresnel fixtures

The first batch of 250 Source Four Fresnels received in Europe from ETC's production facility in Wisconsin, USA, has just been delivered to dealers.

Meanwhile, ETC's Selador Desire LED line picked up two awards at the 2011 Worship Facilitie

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USA - MA Lighting received two awards at the recent fourth annual PLASA Rock Our World Awards.

The first was for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony, where a grandMA2 light played the crucial role of controlling 34 media servers, feeding multiple onstage screens via 70 video projectors.

The second award was given for Disney's World of Color, where the installation also relies on grandMA2 for lighting control.

The Rock Our World Awards were created to honour groundbreaking achievements by PLASA members in the world of entertainment technology .

"We fondly recognise our trophy-winning partners' hard work, dedication to detail and outstanding conceptual product designs," says A.C.T Lighting executive VP and COO Ben Saltzman. "We cherish our strong, productive relationships with them, and stand behind their continued efforts to bring durable, reliable lighti

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