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UK - i-Pix supplied a special package of BB4, BB7 and BB16 LED fixtures to Electric Fly Productions, show and lighting designers for the main stage, four arenas and two outdoor terrace areas at the 2009 Global Gathering dance event. This was staged at Long Marsden Airfield in Staffordshire, UK.

Electric Fly's Nick Jevons wanted to use specific fixtures for certain special effects. "I approached i-Pix because I could think of several areas that were ideal for their very high quality homogenised light output - which doesn't even resemble an LED fixture - and they came to the party with great enthusiasm," he says.

i-Pix Chris Ewington adds: " Nick is one of the most innovative lighting designers and his work is always interesting. Our products have all been developed after careful and considered end-user feedback, so events like this present great opportunit

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Germany - In July, XL Video equipped the two largest German motorsport events with video walls. The company was engaged as a full service provider for both the formula one racing from the 10-12 July at the Nürburgring and for the motorbike grand prix at the Sachsenring from 17-19 July. Due to the very short interval of time between the two races, most of XL Video's video trucks drove straight from the Nürburgring once the task of dismantling the installation was complete to the Sachsenring to begin setting up for the next event.

For the first event at the Nürburgring XL Video deployed almost 500sq.m of LED equipment. This included two 80-square-metre LED video trucks, five 50sq.m LED video trucks and two Mitsubishi DV 10 modular video walls that were mounted on the roof of the pit lane.

At the Sachsenring, 13 video walls with a combined LED video display area of 420sq.m pro

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Thailand - JM Rental, one of the largest LED display rental companies in Asia, was chosen to supply the LED screen requirements for four of the world's highest profile motor manufacturers at the 30th Bangkok International Motor Show.

Attracting around 1.6 million visitors, the Bangkok International Motor Show is one of the highest profile motor trade events in Asia. With 130 exhibitors from 111 different countries attending, the event brings together a diverse array of production and concept cars, motorcycles, commercial and rough terrain vehicles, parts and accessories.

Four Japanese motor manufacturers - Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Suzuki - commissioned the official contractor of show, PM Center Co (Thailand), to provide lighting and audio equipment including Lighthouse LED screens.

JM Rental operations director Kenneth Yip comments, "The Bangkok Motor Show is a bi

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UK - PSCo has hired Sam Yates as business development executive. Based in the new PSCo Birmingham office, Yates is looking to build client relationships and improve PSCo's rental service, delivering advanced products to events and clients based in the Midlands and North.

Yates joins PSCo from Paragon Projection, bringing with her five years of trade rental experience, with a comprehensive knowledge of customer's needs and AV technology.

"Joining the PSCo team is an exciting move for me as I have a whole portfolio of new products to work with and the company is really focussed on customer service," says Yates. "I was looking for a new challenge and this role will enable me to get out and meet my clients face to face, learn more about their businesses and see how PSCo should be developing to help them."

Mike Nield, global rental director of PSCo explains: &

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UK - With little more than a month to go until the PLASA Show, organiser PLASA Events has confirmed over 40 exhibitors new to this year's event, as pre-registrations look set to match 2008's record levels. Pre-registration for PLASA09 is still open, with a 50% discount for online bookings (see website below).

New & Returning Exhibitors
Exhibitors new or returning to the show include Adam Hall, A.T. Industries, All Access Staging & Productions, Ambient Lighting, Artistic Licence, Avid Technology, Bestlight, Bison Produkter, Coemar S.p.A, Entertainment Equipment Supplies, Flying by Foy, Gerriets, Indu-Electric Gerber, Klotz Audio Interface Systems, Laserworld (Switzerland), LumenRadio, MediaLas Laserproducts, NEXO, Picturall, Prism Media Products, Promoberg, Pyrotechnology, R K Sound Engineering, ShowCAD Control S

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UK - The organisers of the PLASA Show (13-16 September 2009, Earls Court, London) have announced the final shortlist of nominees for this year's prestigious Gottelier Award, which will be presented at the PLASA Show on Monday 14 September.

This will be the third Gottelier Award - named in memory of the former designer, developer and commentator Tony Gottelier, who died in 2006. The Award (sponsored by Lighting&Sound International magazine for which Tony Gottelier was a regular contributor for many years), aims to recognise those who have made a significant and sustained contribution to the development of entertainment technology. Former winners are Tony Andrews of Funktion One (2007) and John Stadius of Soundtracs/DiGiCo (2008).

The seven nominees this year include four notable figures from the lighting world and three from pro audio. This year's nominees are, in alphabetical

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UK - MSP (Merseysound Productions & Staging) was announced as the winner of Grass Roots' Premier Partner award for delivering exceptional service over the past year. The Liverpool-based company has helped Grass Roots' live event production team produce events both nationally and internationally.

Nick Bender, global head of events at Grass Roots, said: "With each event we need to be able to rely on our supplier partners to help us deliver a perfect experience every time. These awards recognise that MSP consistently go the extra mile for us and demonstrate our sincere appreciation in having such trusted partners on whom we can always depend."

The MSP team were nominated for being excellent ambassadors for Grass Roots and their clients, consistently responding to tight deadlines while exceeding expectations, and donating AV equipment and staff for the charitable event <

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UK - When LexisNexis, a supplier in the business information market, decided to revamp the PartnerPoint meeting room at its London office, it approached Projection Advertising for inspiration and guidance. The brief was to transform a rather outdated meeting room into a leading edge media suite.

After exploring various options they were sold on the AdWindow, the projected capacitance touch screen, using Paradigm AV touch foil technology.

It was essential that the system could be used to access information in the LexisNexis annals - claimed to be the largest online archive of legal and accounting resources in the world. A Windows based platform, AdWindow integrated seamlessly into the established network - the core of the company's business - putting information at the user's fingertips.

Projection Advertising provided a turnkey solution which included fabricating custom brac

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UK - Tascam, the professional audio products division of Teac Corporation, has established a dedicated sales and support service for the professional AV sector in the UK. The initiative is intended to promote the advantages of the professional audio company's new solidstate recorder series, which offers digital media storage, playout and network management capabilities for AV installer and integrator applications.

Tascam AV UK, headed up by sales and support manager Gary Maguire, is focussing resources on the installer and integrator sectors to promote the technological and operational advances offered by the new solidstate products in applications currently fulfilled by various disc media, cassette tape and commodity PCs. The new products offer the advantages of Compact Flash (CF) card and USB media with no moving components, file based media management, removable storage devic

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UK - The recent A.C. Entertainment Technologies Video & Lighting Open Day was a great success, says the company, with a high industry turnout taking the opportunity to see the company's extensive stockholding of leading video and lighting technologies under one roof.

Specialists from A.C., as well as manufacturer representatives, were on hand to discuss how the two technologies are increasingly converging to provide innovative backdrops, set pieces and other video-based elements. The showcase included video projection and associated equipment, creative LED surfaces and LED lighting products from Christie, Chroma-Q, Element Labs, GLP, Green Hippo, GTEK, Kramer, Martin, Robe and TV One.

Lighting designer Bernie Davis commented: "I was delighted that the A.C. event was on a day I could go as I find these meetings are a good way to get a closer look at all that is new. The eq

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UK - SNP Productions is a proactive dealer and specialist for Catalyst media servers, providing sales, hire, training & support in the UK and worldwide. SNP also supplies complete lighting & video control solutions for all areas of the professional entertainment industry.

At PLASA2009, SNP will be demonstrating the power and flexibility of the latest Catalyst media servers, highlighting the myriad of different possible configurations to suit all needs, along with peripheral equipment, plus SNP Productions' own Catalyst System Flight-cases.

Catalyst version 4.2 software will be of interest to all those involved in live visuals and media. New features include an increased number of layers per version - up to 32 layers and 16 mixes for the PRO version, eight layers/eight mixes for the DV versions, four layers/six mixes for Express and two layers/four mixes for Lite.

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The Great Green Debate - U2 guitarist The Edge has defended the size and cost of their current world tour. Last month, protests delayed the removal of the custom-built set from Ireland, and it also came under fire from Talking Heads singer David Byrne. The three steel structures cost between £15m and £20m each, offering a largely unobstructed view of the rock quartet. Speaking to BBC 6 Music backstage at Wembley, The Edge said, "We're spending the money on our fans, I don't think there's a better thing you could spend it on."

Despite it being the most ambitious stage set of any band's world tour, topping the likes of Madonna and The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne was not impressed. He slammed the band on his blog and said their world tour costs were "excessive", considering their stance on world hunger. He wrote: "$40 mill

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UK - Visual Productions is launching Cuelux software lighting control on the UK market. Cuelux is a platform-independent piece of software lighting control that can run on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows or Ubuntu Linux. It is a DMX512 lighting controller for intelligent lights, LED, dimmers, lasers and various other effects; the USB-to-DMX adapter cable is available from stock.

Cuelux is designed to suit the entry level market; key to this is its intuitive graphical user-interface. It is specially designed to reduce the amount of time required to learn how to operate the software. Great care has been taken to design Cuelux' 100% touch-screen compliant user-interface to reflect the functionality of the industry standard control boards. Programming the lights through Cuelux' cue-list system is identical to the industry's most sophisticated consoles, says the company.

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UK - Triple E recently refurbished the masking system for the projection screen in the theatre in London's National Gallery. Situated in the Sainsbury Wing, the 328 seat theatre plays host to a wide range of events including lunchtime talks, lectures, films and study days, as well as private events on behalf of the Gallery's corporate sponsors.

This is the first refurbishment of the multi use theatre since the Sainsbury Wing was built in 1991 and the existing track and motors were not just old, but also unreliable. With such a wide variety of events, and the fact that it's sometimes necessary to swap screen formats within the same event, Jon Sheldon, senior audio-visual technician at The National Gallery, needed a system that was flexible, quiet and accurate.

David Edelstein, managing director of Triple E, said: "We had been working on a new product, Chainbeam, which inco

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UK - E/T/C London is once again supplying spectacular 90 metre wide large format projections for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. This is the fifth consecutive year that the company has been involved in this high profile event, and the second year that the projection canvas has been increased from 60 to 90m wide - following the success of the widescreen style last year. This extended area stretches the full width of Edinburgh Castle's walls at the far end of the Esplanade/arena, forming a dramatic backdrop to the performance space.

E/T/C London's Ross Ashton designed and produced custom artwork for the high impact projections which run for approximately 50% of the show. This is the most that projected images have been used to date since the medium was first introduced into the Tattoo's visual mix in 2005.

Four of E/T/C's PIGI 6K projectors fitted with double rotating scro

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Finland - FogScreen Inc. has introduced its "most affordable, simple and versatile model yet", the FogScreen eZ projection screen.

This new product has been designed with a compact body structure incorporating all the elements into the main screen housing. One power plug and one water line is all that's needed to connect the screen and start operation.

"FogScreen eZ is our new product for the price driven market in a heavy recession. For under 20k EUR you can buy an easy to set up, very affordable, high quality, original and patented FogScreen projection screen," says CEO Mika Koivula. "After the successful launch of the retail sector we are now looking to attract other outlets like visitor attractions in general, aquariums, corporate offices and night clubs. FogScreen eZ serves exactly the same purpose as the bigger FogScreen product family members:

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UK - PLASA Connect, the new business contact initiative set to run at this year's PLASA Show (13-16 September, Earls Court, London), has gained the support and sponsorship of Supply2Gov. The only official government lower-value contract opportunity portal, Supply2Gov was created in June 2006, specifically to provide small businesses with information on public sector contract opportunities - typically below £100,000.

The support of Supply2.gov.uk underlines PLASA09's role as a focus for business within the sector. Supply2Gov is the first major initiative to unite both buyers and suppliers in a single location, making it easier for business and government to work together. Suppliers can access UK-wide contracts for free via an online Contract Search, and can also sign up for a daily e-mail alert.Since its launch, the portal has provided small businesses throughout the UK wit

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UK - Manchester-based lighting company DBN Lighting supplied design services and equipment to illuminate the river facing façade of the Port of Liverpool building for LuminoCity, a 30-minute multimedia spectacular created and produced by Walk the Plank and featuring video projections, pyrotechnics, live performance, and a specially composed sound track.

The culmination of Liverpool's 2009 Art On The Waterfront event also produced by Walk The Plank for Liverpool City Council, LuminoCity was produced in conjunction with Tate Liverpool, which ran a week of colourful summer events for all ages inspired by their exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today.

Stephen Page of DBN designed the light show which illuminated the 50m tall building. Page used over 200 assorted LED fixtures, primarily Chroma-Q Colorblock mk2s, dotted all over the bu

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USA - Lab X Technologies has added a larger conference room and four new offices and expanded the reception area at its headquarters in Rochester, New York. Lee Minich, President of the engineering design firm, says that the decision to grow in the midst of a broadly shrinking economy almost made itself.

"We looked at the accelerated pace of connectivity proliferation, the continued growth of our client list, and the positive impact of emerging technologies such as AVB (Audio-Video Bridging)," he says. "Our need for growing room was immediately obvious. Product manufacturers in many industries are turning to Lab X for help in leveraging the IEEE's emerging AVB standards that make Ethernet ready for reliable real-time streaming of high-quality audio and video."

The new facilitiesalso give Lab X and its visiting clients access to a new entrance and additional

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Germany - MA Lighting's new MA Video Processing Unit (VPU) has been developed to further extend the MA system by integrating innovative video control.

This plug and play solution allows for instant show start. After connecting the MA VPU to a grandMA/grandMA2 console everything is ready to go. With the MA VPU video will be controlled just like another lighting fixture.

Based on MA Lighting's technology, the MA VPU offers "extreme reliability and powerful performance" - optimised for transport, longevity and use on-the-road as well as for fixed installations like theatres and TV studios.

Three different versions of the MA VPU are available: MA VPU pro, MA VPU plus and MA VPU basic. It is possible to select, control, live-access and to alter all the MA VPU's videos, still images and 3D objects from the grandMA. As all MA VPUs and grandMA consoles share the same showf

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USA - Advanced Media Design (AMD) has announced an "exclusive value added distribution relationship" with Aethra.

Advanced Media Design now distributes the entire Aethra video communication suite of products, including the high definition range.

"Although not as well known in the United States as it is in other parts of the world, Aethra is a world leader in our business, and we're excited to team with them and contribute to their outstanding success story by leveraging our own extensive value added distribution experience in the North American market," said Gareth Wade, vice-president of sales and marketing, AMD/MediaPOINTE. "Our new partnership supports Aethra's global goals and proves our commitment of bringing the best available products in the market to our dealers."

Marco Viezzoli, chief executive officer of Aethra said: "This is a ve

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UK - Arcstream AV was commissioned by music video directors Between the Eyes to create the visual laser effects in the video for Sugababes new single Get Sexy.

The video sees the singers enclosed in a cylinder of mirrors and Arcstream AV had to devise a way of creating the special effects within the cylinder. By installing a 10 watt RGB laser and diffraction mirrors within the cylinder and feeding the lasers and a camera through a small aperture in the side of the cylinder, the action within the enclosed area could be captured without disrupting the laser stream.

Wayne Haxton, director of Arcstream AV explained: "Capturing the images was a challenge due to the tight space restrictions, so we used defraction mirrors to bounce the laser beams within the cylinder allowing them to be directed."

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UK - Following its initial preview at InfoComm 2009, Stardraw.com has announced the official release on 1 September of its latest system control application, Stardraw Control 2010. Control 2010 is a significant step up from the previous 2007 version, the company says, offering users greater flexibility, improved User Interfaces (UIs) and the ability to exploit the ever-increasing processing power of modern hardware.

Control 2010 is also fully compatible with 2007, so all current projects can easily be transferred to the new platform and benefit from its improved features and capabilities.

The Control 2010 platform includes a generic HTTP, or WebServices driver. This means that anything that talks HTTP can talk to any system controlled by Stardraw Control, anywhere. For example, you can use any browser on any device anywhere on the planet as a UI - that includes Smartphones of

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Record-Breaking Fringe - The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has broken its own box office records by selling more than 1.8 million tickets. Ticket sales for the Fringe were up by 21% on last year and 9% on its previous best ever year, which was in 2007. Organisers said a drop in international visitors had been offset by a marked increase in UK audiences.

The 63rd Fringe, which ended on Monday night, was the first with new chief executive Kath Mainland at the helm. She said, "Even in tough economic conditions, festivals chime with people in a way few other events manage to. Over the past three-and-a-half weeks I have seen some amazing work, sometimes perfectly trivial and enormously entertaining, sometimes incredibly challenging and often hugely moving. I have been blown away by the creative energy, artistic vision and drive of the people taking part, from performers and director

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