Stardraw's marketing director, Rob Robinson, is delighted that Stardraw Control has qualified as a finalist for the inaugural Technology InAVation Awards which will be held at the forthcoming ISE show in Amsterdam next February. "Stardraw Control has already been recognised at several prestigious industry awards, and the Technology InAVation nomination serves as further testament to the truly innovative nature of the product," noted Robinson. &
Ramsey spent 18 years at Vinten Broadcast, Ltd., where he held the position of general manager, responsible for the commercial operation of Vinten Broadcast, Ltd. in its global markets. His experience managing sales and customer support programmes successfully in the broadcast business will help drive Clear-Com's sales and support efforts.
"We are extremely thrilled to have Graham join the Clear-Com team,"said Matt Danilowicz, managing director of Vitec Group Communications."Graham's successful track record in managing sales and service organisations, deep market knowledge in Broadcasting, and extensive experience ru
"We visited the City of London from 10-15 November in order to strengthen our ties with the City, with which we have a formal affiliation," explains Commander Ian Annett of HMS Illustrious. "We are also affiliated to two Livery Companies, one of which is the Worshipful Company of Lightmongers, who have kindly donated two gobo projectors to us and we have been steadily increasing our library of images over the last year."
The poppy image is being funded by one of the Lightmongers and was presented
It is the second year running that XL has supplied the prestigious Endemol-produced show, which this year featured a line up of performances from Brian Wilson, Bon Jovi, James Brown and Prince among others. Highlights also included the induction of 'fifth Beatle' Sir George Martin (by chancellor Gordon Brown), who received this year's Honorary Membership in recognition of his exceptional contribution to British music.
XL's team was project managed by Paul Wood, once again working closely with production manager Paul-Ant Violet and set designer Bill Laslett.
The main 'Awards Package' screen was a traditional 6 x 4 metre BP screen, positioned stage right and fed by one of XL's new Christie Ro
XL worked with production manager Harold Jones, production designer Justin Collie of Art Fag LLC, Stewart White of Control Freak and video director Chris Keating to provide four Barco I-10 LED walls, which consisted of two 7x7 led walls stage left and right, a 13x7 led wall upstage centre and a 6x6 led wall downstage. A large "M" made of MiPix framed the stage with a MiPix circular surround in the centre. VersaTubes were installed in the stairs, band risers and DJ booth. The camera system consisted of four Sony D35 cameras and projection was two SLM R12's, shooting rear projection onto two 15x20 screens.
Touring on beh
The proposed conference will broadly examine the current practices of the production industry and look at how companies and organisations can take steps to minimise the carbon footprint of staging shows, supplying and touring equipment, catering for audiences, etc. The event will draw on the expertise of the team at The Eden Project, the popular tourist attraction in the South West of England, whose environmental policies underpin a series of 'green' gigs at the venue.
At this stage, PLASA is gauging the level of interest in such an event, so we want to hear from everyone in the industry who would like to be involved. If you w
Working to a brief from production company Banana Split Productions, PSL crew erected a special structure to support the 4m x 2.5m Lighthouse LED screen, which carried live interviews with all the film's creators and stars. Marking a change from the usual red carpet approach, a bridge was constructed to carry the celebrities from the Square's central garden over the cast-iron fence railings to the terrace in front of the Odeon Cinema. PSL's screen was positioned at the highest point of the bridge, allowing a clear view for all the tho
Blitz is providing a full range of services for the show, supplying AV equipment including video control systems and two Panasonic projectors, as well as complete sound solution and extensive technical staging direction. Working alongside well-known director Paul Kerryson, Blitz's project manager Mark Lewis will be offering innovative technical advice from the outset of the project to help create maximum impact from the stage production. This is a proposition which Blitz is continu
Compered by Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson and James May, along with Fifth Gear TV presenter Tiff Needell, each of the 23 x 75-minute shows was reinforced by a high level of production - from the pyrotechnics that accompanied the stunts, to the highest powered state-of-the-art DLP projection available to service company XL Video.
Project manager Lee Spencer commandeered the latest additions to XL Video's hire-fleet, the supercharged Christie S+20K SXGA+ Roadsters, fitted with polarising lens to deliver a st
"Offering the best possible reliability and accurate picture detail, the cineo3+ 1080 projector meets the stringent demands of High Definition applications," says Anders L°kke, Marcoms manager at projectiondesign. "This single-chip projector is used in a vast range of applications around the globe including digital dailies, post production work and HD screenings, high quality graphics generation, 3D graphics and mapping, command, control and surveillance, broadcast control room and presentation areas, medical imaging, automotive design, and even digital signage."
Key operational features include a failsafe DuArch architecture whereby lamps are replaced whilst the projector is operating with no down time. The compact
The main objective of PALME is to allow for manufacturers, suppliers and installers to meet with Middle Eastern buyers and specifiers from a wide range of industries who have a need or requirement for professional sound, light, music, audio-visual and systems integration equipment and solutions. The latest major companies to sign up for PALME 2007 include EVI Audio, Indu Electric, Martin Professional, RCF Spa, Prolyte, Projectiondesign, Audioprof and BG Franck Bichon to name but a few, say IIR.
The 2007 PALME Middle East sh
Contrary to what was previously reported, following the 2006 event, the next edition of SIB is scheduled to be held at Rimini expo centre from 6-9 April 2008. Rimini Fiera chairman Lorenzo Cagnoni commented: "Yesterday we announced the important agreement with TEN, a network of 50 large companies in this sector (lighting, audio and video, décor and theatre stage equipment and sets, musical instruments, industrial design firms, design studios, training, research) which has officially chosen SIB for developing its members' business
The patent in question covers such species of segmented colour wheels and used for projection apparatus. Prodisc has furnished this color wheel arguing that it is not within the scope of Oerlikon's patent claims. Oerlikon in return has filed a counter claim at the same court in order to convict Prodisc of patent infringement.
In its judgment the District Court of Düsseldorf has recently dismissed Prodisc's action and decided that the German Patent is indeed infringed by Prodisc's colour wheels. This judgment is appealable.
"These efforts emphasize Oerlikon's firm deter
Integrated Systems Europe have confirmed that ISE is on pace to set a record-breaking event. With the fourth show just three months away, ISE 2007 has grown larger, with the newly booked Hall Four nearly full. During the last six months, the show organisers have reacted quickly to meet the insatiable demand from companies anxious to be part of Europe's largest show for professional AV and Electronic System Integrators. Over 11,000sq.m of space has now been sold, making it the largest ISE show ever held.
Mike Blackman, ISE 2006 managing director urged any business intending on booking existing space to contact ISE immediately, as Hall 4 is nearly b
The RNLI simulator complex consists of a main lifeboat bridge with a 245-degree cylindrical visualization screen that measures five metres radius, a full lifeboat mock-up and a secondary bridge. With the upgrade, Antycip provided the eleven F2 SX+ projectors, and integrated them with a 3D Perception Compact UTM system to perform edge blending and image warping
Design/build firm Pro-Comm and its division, The Music Room installed AV systems and automatic shades in all 120 hotel rooms. Hotel 1000's nine boardrooms and conference rooms also feature an AV distribution system installed by The Music Room using SymNet audio networking equipment.
"We were referred to the product specifically by our A/V designer, Stan Holt. We
Tantzen spent four years as a product specialist at Loud Technologies, where he successfully grew the TAPCO brand. His wide-ranging freelance audio engineering activities include studio recording, editing, and mixing; location recording and mixing; audio for video; and live sound and broadcast mixing. In addition, he developed and taught classes at Seattle's 911 Media Arts.
Commented Tantzen, "I'm happy to put my skills to use at Symetrix because it has such a g
Western and Central Europe sales director Michiel Hettinga and Western & Central Europe sales manager Jens Schelde presented introductory sessions of Lighthouse Technologies and its technologies at the Polish, Czech Republic and Hungarian shows, whilst Southern European sales support manager presented at the Turkish event.
Lighthouse Technologies also took the opportunity to demonstrate its ultra-high resolution R4 4mm and best-selling R6 6mm indoor LED screens, both of which were greeted very favourably by Roadshow attendees.
"The Istanbul show was
The event was hosted by Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan and it featured performances from Beyonce, Nelly Furtado, Enya, Andrea Bocelli and Katie Melua. R&B star Chris Brown, backed by dozens of dancers, opened for Michael Jackson who was making his first UK appearance since 1997.
A total of 130 panels of Lighthouse R16 16mm LED screen formed the arch - measuring 15m in height, with each leg being 3m wide. Processing was via Lighthouse LIP-KX processors with Supervisor LH Universal Display optimisers for scaling.
Three projection screens provided for IMAG requirements: one central rear projected and two front projected screens, stage left and right. Additionally, 60 plasma TVs were arr
For the current George Michael tour, celebrating his 25-year career, a massive nine metre wide and 25 metre long screen was designed, incorporating 3000 of Barco's MiStrip LED modules. This giant backdrop flows onto the stage and beyond via both concave and convex curves to create a stunning visual element, strong enough to be both stood and danced on. Barco specialists were involved in the set design from the very beginning and worked closely with XL Video to design the spectacular stage.
Phil Mercer, project manager of XL Video, says: "The project was very ambitious, demanding for extremely high re
"Partnering with the D-Tools MVP program was an excellent way to expand our product exposure and educate integrators and consumer electronic professions on the benefits of Planet Waves Cable Station line," said Robert D'Addario, Planet Waves CI product manag
Rack 1 is used for video, Rack 2 for the VTRs and Rack3 for audio - the 10u racks provide all the monitoring. Each of the 17u racks has a sliding tray which provides a control surface for the three operators - camera control vision mixer / director and sound engineer. The system provides four broadcast cameras, audio and video for two VTRs together with full communications and monitoring.
PBDS, part of the Wescom group of companies, provides custom system engineering solutions from outside broadcast vehicles to major studio systems. This is the second order PBDS has placed with 5 Star - following a series of cases
Ten SMP-WEB players and 2 CMS-MINI servers are used together with large plasma displays of 42" and 50". Those screens are positioned at the reception, in conference rooms and in the congress cafeteria to deliver live information about hosting companies, meeting schedules and rooms usage. Due to the limited capacity of the auditorium, the platform is also used to transmit live streaming video from the main auditorium to other conference rooms to increase the number of viewers.
SMP-WEB is a scalable web-based networked digital signage system. It allows event hosting companies to display a variety of mult
John Wiseman, President of XL, says: "I've been watching from afar as the TSO phenomenon continues to explode onto the scene. From a few theatre dates to two simultaneous sold-out arena tours. When the chance came up to support the design for Brian Hartley, and support Craig Redden at Q-1, we jumped at it. This tour(s) will do nothing but continue to gather steam as it becomes
