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Denmark - Solund - a home for people with severe physical and mental disabilities in Denmark - has recently opened The Golden Horn, its new snoezelen centre.

Solund has dedicated its time and energy to develop a snoezelen centre containing the right elements to create a modern and innovative place that users can benefit from. The idea behind a snoezelen centre is to create settings which intensify the users' senses by stimulating, entertaining, calming or activating them.

ProShop Europe, a Danish-based AV technology integration specialist, has been the main technical partner for this project. They supplied and installed the screens, control panels, lighting and audio systems. They also selected and programmed the Medialon control system installed in The Golden Horn.

Nine different snoezelen rooms have been built and designed in the centre. They all feature modern AV technolo

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World - With planning for the merger between ESTA and PLASA now in its final stages, the elections for places on the new Regional Boards, and over-arching Governing Body, are coming to a close.

The month-long ballot, which ends on 31 October, pre-empts the New Year merger date when the Associations formally unite under the PLASA name.

Members of both organizations have been actively voting to elect candidates for the new European and North American Regional Boards which will feature representatives from the following groups of members - Dealer/Retailers, Distributors, Manufacturers, Production Services, Professional Services and Rental Companies, together with a representative from both the Organizational and Individual memberships.

The Governing Body is a new concept for PLASA and is designed to ensure continuity of decision-making and strategic consistency. Whilst the Chai

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UK - PLASA is hosting a special update day for members on legislative developments and business issues. The event, which takes place on Thursday 25 November at ETC's offices in West London, will see HR specialist Clive Payne providing members with an overview of recent changes and the implications for their businesses.

In addition to a focus on legislative issues, the day will also feature presentations from Simon Miller of Allan Chapman & James, who will provide an update on recent changes to the insurance market and how members can keep insurance costs down, Krystyna Gibbons of Westfield Health, who will outline the options for a cost-effective alternative to private healthcare and Paul Robson of Medialease who will talk about leasing funding, providing an overview of current market conditions and how members can get into the best possible shape to attract leasing funding when

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France - Christie MicroTiles is the winner of the Satis-Le Radio Award in the Display category. In awarding this prize, the Satis-Le Radio panel of judges cited "the technological innovation, the quality of colour reproduction, and the detailed image resolution provided by Christie MicroTiles".

This is the second French award for Christie MicroTiles since they were introduced in Europe in February 2010 at ISE in Amsterdam. MicroTiles also received the Janus de l'Industrie award in May 2010 from the French Institute of Design.

"We're very proud of this award," said Pascal Gervais, regional director for Christie France. "Christie MicroTiles have enjoyed success worldwide since they were introduced in France and internationally. Today, they're winning over trend-setters in the fields of architecture, design, and billboard-style advertising in high-value p

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USA - Camelback Toyota, a dealership located in the heart of Phoenix, is receiving a lot of attention for its recent renovations. It just built a 62,000sq.ft showroom alongside a 65,000sq.ft service facility with many added conveniences.

"What continues to make the biggest impression on all of our guests, however, is the digital technology," said Kim McKay, customer relations manager at Camelback. A digital signage network from Unified Brand and Scala is one of the major components of the 22-year-old facility's complete makeover.

The goal of building this showroom was to create an environment that does not resemble a car dealership. The new facility is equipped with high-end amenities, including free Wi-Fi, a cafe, high-tech media room, kids' play area, outdoor patio and massage area with in-chair TVs. Accordingly, Camelback did an in-depth search to find a sophistic

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Belgium - ArKaos has released MediaMaster 2.2 which features new curved screen technology. This new functionality is available as a free upgrade to all user of MediaMaster Pro 2.

MediaMaster is a software solution for professional control of real-time video and effects that has been specifically developed for desk operators and lighting designers.

More than simply supporting curved screen functionality, the new geometry correction also allows you to correct a single projector mounted in those difficult places where standard keystone correction is not effective, says the company. It will also harmonise the output from several projectors which cannot be installed at the same distance or angle to a curved screen.

MediaMaster 2.2 also offers several other improvements, such as better support for multiple monitors. While still running on Windows XP and Mac OS X, MediaMaster 2.2 n

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UK - Following the positive response to the new products from both Philips Color Kinetics and Sensacell at last month's PLASA show, Architainment Lighting has created a new technical sales engineer position to spearhead the promotion of its lighting products into the entertainment sector, and promoting current employee, Phil Grice, to this position.

Grice, who joined Architainment early in 2010 as a technical services engineer has a strong background rooted in the entertainment side of the business. Prior to joining Architainment, he worked for Dorking Halls.

Commenting on this new role, Phil Grice said, "I am excited for the opportunity to meet potential clients and introduce them to the LED fixtures Architainment can provide and the various benefits and functionalities these fittings can offer."

Managing Director, Nic Tolkien added, "We've been looking at es

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USA - Liberty AV Solutions has realigned its sales force across the US. Following on the heels of an announcement last week in which it was disclosed that David Ellis has been named as director of Western regional sales and Dan Reich will begin serving as his counterpart in the East, the reorganized sales force will introduce direct sales associates into the field that will work hand-in-hand with existing independent manufacturer's reps.

"The motivating factor behind this move is to provide an exceptional customer experience," says president John Dace Dace. "It's our belief that investing in a sales team like this will help us deliver the best customer service within the AV industry, and help us grow our market share in turn."

As part of the launch of the newly reorganized sales force, Kevin Cole has been named as inside sales manager. Working from Liberty'

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Vietnam - The celebration of Vietnam's 1000th anniversary was held in Hanoi at the My Dình Stadium on 10 October.

With over 1000 players and dancers, it was a spectacular event. Guests included Hillary Clinton, USA Secretary of State, President Sarkozy, the Russian Premier Putin and many other international heads of state.

In Hanoi, visual designer Paolo Buroni and his team coordinated by Sabine Linder worked together on the artistic and choreographic content of the show which narrated the history and the beauty of this country through the four elements of nature using a large scale technical deployment of hundreds of image and lighting effects projectors.

The stadium and its surrounds were frescoed with images projected by 60 Stark Live and Revolution projectors that were chosen after a comparison with an international array of technologies and projection systems.

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USA - The Zinman Co, LLC has unveiled its latest product for live entertainment and broadcast, "In Your Back Pocket", a collection of 400 HD loops for LED screens, digital lighting and HD projection; pre-rendered for MAC and PC based media servers. "It's not a replacement to your existing library, but a resource in your back pocket when you can't find "that" clip in your existing library," explains developer Michael S. Zinman.

"We designed every clip to be easily keyed, tiled and colorized painlessly, we've also rendered many of these clips to play at a slower speed, as most media servers do a better job speeding clips up," says Michael Zinman.

"Everything about In Your back Pocket will make sense to programmers. To our knowledge, this is the only collection of royalty-free loops that have been designed specifically for media server

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UK - Production rental company Class Act Sound & Light, based in Aylesbury Buckinghamshire, has purchased 12 panels (flight cased) of Highlite UK's DMT P10 LED Pixel Screen along with various rigging bars and Arkaos server/software.

Class Act approached Highlite with the brief that they wanted an LED screen that could be versatile and used both for live TV and as a stage effect with the use with graphics playback behind performers.

Company owner Mick Watson is very pleased with the investment and said: "I am very impressed with the product, plus the service and technical back up Highlite has given us in the setting up and configurations of the panels. The response we are getting from the clients is well received and we look forward to using the P10 screen at many of our events and productions.'

The new DMT P10 panels measure 1024 x 768 x 178mm and can be configured in m

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UK - Leading creative design and AV installation company Sarner will design, create, produce and build the first ever immersive Doctor Who Experience for BBC Worldwide.

Sarner, known for the concept, design and creation of themed visitor attractions around the globe, was awarded the contract following a competitive tender at the beginning of 2010 and is currently working on the pre-build prior to going on site at the beginning of December. The exhibition will officially open at London's Olympia on 20 February 2011.

BBC Worldwide's head of exhibitions and events, Paula Al-Lach, has been working closely with Sarner on the project since its inception. Commenting on Sarner she says: "The brief was to create an immersive experience based on the popular TV programme that would capture and celebrate the essence of Doctor Who. We felt that Sarner's creative vision for the project

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UK - Rose, a son et lumière collaboration between projection artist Ross Ashton and sound artist Karen Monid, was the main centrepiece of the 2010 Illuminating York festival of light. It drew in 65,000 people to York city centre to enjoy the show over four days, running for three hours each evening in a continuous loop.

Ashton and Monid were commissioned to produce this latest work following their successful Accendo for the 2008 Illuminating York event, which lit the facades of the Yorkshire Museum and Abbey Ruins in York's Museum Gardens.

Rose was a 40m high artwork that transformed the Minster's famous medieval Rose window and surrounding architecture into an amalgam of images, ideas, colour and sounds. It was a four-part study encompassing the symbolism of the rose and its relevance to the city's ancient and contemporary history.

The Ar

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UK - Creative Technology (CT) supported the 2010 Ryder Cup at Wales' Celtic Manor.

The 2010 tournament, arguably the closest in the tournaments history, saw 24 of the Worlds' golfing elite battle each other, and the elements, over four exciting days. Fans around the globe and the live audience at Celtic Manor were glued to the fluctuating fortunes from foursomes to singles matches, culminating in a European team win in the final match on the 17th green.

CT has supplied every European Ryder Cup since 1985, but this was the first time the organisers have contracted the company to provide all of the on-course video facilities. This extended from the 16 screens and supplied feeds to 450 LCD displays in offices and hospitality suites to the generation and distribution of real-time graphics and scores, mixed with live camera action and other event critical data, all tailored to each

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UK - DB Systems has once again appointed official AV supplier for the 2011 Mobile World Congress (MWC).

This will be the fifth consecutive year that DB is the official supplier of audio visual systems and equipment. In total, DB has had a presence at the event, which is the world's biggest exhibition for the mobile phone industry, every year since 1999.

The show's organiser, GSMA, is also promoting DB's ecoXpress technology as a sustainable way to distribute literature. ecoXpress helps exhibitors reduce their environmental footprint as it removes the need for printed brochures on stands. Instead, delegates browse the exhibitor's literature on touch screens, choose what information is most relevant to them and email that selected information to their office computers.

Oliver Richardson, DB's sales director, says, "This demonstrates that, as a result of our excellent serv

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USA - Aviom, the developer of A-Net, has announced the addition of the FK6 and SK6 mounting accessories to the new AllFrame Multi-Modular I/O System at WFX 2010.

With the FK6 and SK6, AllFrame I/O boxes can be installed in existing floor pockets or used as drop-boxes on stage. At the centre of the AllFrame Multi-Modular I/O System is the F6 Modular I/O Frame, a multi-purpose network frame with six field-configurable I/O card slots and integrated Cat-5e and fibre optic connectivity.

The F6 can be outfitted to meet the audio I/O requirements of nearly any application. Additional mounting options for the F6 include on-wall or in-wall mounting using a standard NEMA Type 1 enclosure or rack-mounting, with connectors facing the front or rear, using the RK6 rack mounting kit.

Designed for permanent installations such as houses of worship, theatres, schools and conference centres, a

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UK - Cliff Richard, the perennial performer, celebrated his 70th birthday with a series of well-publicised; sell out concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. If proof were required of Cliff's showmanship, he chose to feature an LED video floor as a focal point on the stage, adding a contemporary twist to his Bold As Brass swing / jazz theme. The video floor was supplied by UK equipment hire specialist Themes Incorporated, who were on hand throughout rehearsals and during the concerts to ensure the smooth delivery of custom graphics supplied by Cliff's production team.

The Sunday night concert was filmed and the 'Bold As Brass' DVD will be available from 22nd November 2010.

(Claire Beeson)

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UK - Working with audio visual supplier, Blitz Communications, Le Mark was tasked with the job of manufacturing a range of heavy duty road case labels which would help increase health & safety by identifying the individual case weights of Blitz's considerable stock of audio visual equipment.

"Customer care and health & safety are paramount at Blitz. We needed a label that would help anyone handling the equipment to visually identify if the case was safe to manually lift or would require assistance. Most importantly of all, the label shouldn't come off without a fight!" says David Watchorn of Blitz.

"All road cases get a rough ride in this industry, so any label that is capable of withstanding the constant transportation and industry standard 'rough handling' needed to be something special. We've used Le Mark's PAL road case labels for many years and know from ex

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UK - The Welsh weather may have thrown its worst at proceedings, but spirits at The Ryder Cup 2010 were certainly not dampened, with Colin Montgomerie's Team Europe swinging their way to victory on the greens and fairways of The Celtic Manor's course. Providing support to the tournament, audiovisual services company Creative Technology (CT) deployed the technology for its match play relay requirements, including a number of Lighthouse Technologies' Rn7-ER LED screens.

A centrepiece of the on-course visual facilities was the 18th Studio screen. This comprised 20 (w) x 8 (h) panels (20.32m x 6.08m) of Lighthouse Rn7-ER 7mm outdoor enhanced resolution LED screen hung off and below the Sky TV studio. Visible from both the club house and the main hospitality area, this screen, along with two Rn7-ER IMAG screens measuring 6 (w) x 5 (h) panels (6.096m x 3.81m) each, was utilised for bo

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Switzerland - As the Basel Tattoo's celebrated its fifth anniversary this year, it also marked the fifth time that the event has used TiMax delay-matrix processing and showcontrol software to make the marching players' audio localise to their movements on stage and also fix potential musical timing problems presented by the large scale of the arena.

An import of the famed Edinburgh pageant which also uses TiMax, the Basel Tattoo is staged outdoors in front of the 18th century Kaserne Hof barracks next to the Rhine. Various collections of marching or dancing performers are spread out over a 70m by 25m parade arena surrounded by audience seating on three sides.

Swiss sound designer Thomas Strebel this year specified a TiMax2 SoundHubR32 which received MIDI preset control and twelve groups of MADI audio from a Soundcraft Vi6 console, comprised of over 32 radio mics plus CD and ha

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Poland - The Chopin Museum in Warsaw has been completely re-invented by the Italian architectural partnership of Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto.

"From a technological point of view, this was our most ambitious project yet," says Servetto. "We knew that we wanted to integrate all the sounds, visuals and interactive technologies together, but we also wanted to do it in a way that offered a very human experience."

On entering the exhibits, each visitor is given a unique RFID card which allows them to personalise their experience, interact with the various displays, and ask questions of the museum's electronic data archive. There is no set order in which the exhibits should be viewed; on the contrary, visitors are encouraged to choose their own route, with the RFID code sensing their location every step of the way. Each room relates to a different aspect or era

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UK - Visitors to the press launch of designer Paul Smith's Spring and Summer 2011 collection in London were treated to a high-definition display on a video wall made up of nine 60-inch Sharp LFD panels. The display utilized Sharp's PN-V601 professional LCD panel with an ultra-thin bezel just 6.5mm wide, giving viewers a 180" wall of high-definition content to observe.

Paul Smith used four of the screens to showcase backstage footage from their new spring/summer 2011 catwalk collections for men and women . The remaining five screens played exclusive short films made by Sir Paul himself, including one of him riding with the Rapha Condor Sharp pro-cycling team. The versatility of the video wall allowed for six different films to be displayed at once creating "a fully immersive viewing experience".

Sir Paul Smith commented, "We are looking to work more and more

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Ireland - Pearl AV is the first customer to snap up the new V-1600HD Live Video Switcher from the Roland Systems Group. Pearl's new unit went out to work on the day it arrived, and, within weeks, has become an integral element of the company's HD platform.

"Our visuals department are delighted to welcome the V-1600 to our HD product range," says Pearl's MD and founder Frank White. "The mixer integrates perfectly with our existing HD projection stocks; we were the first company in Ireland to purchase HD 18K lumen projectors, and now, with the V-1600HD, we can offer true HD vision mixing seamlessly from source right through to our hi-brite screens."

TheYouth Citizenship Awards, produced as a TV programme starring guest performers Jedward, provided a solid test for the V-1600HD in its first few weeks. Pearl's production team, led by technical director Paul Cav

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USA - The Texas Rangers hauled in a massive Daktronics mobile LED display and hosted a fan-appreciation rally just days after losing the 2010 World Series to the San Francisco Giants.

The video displays, provided by GoVision , Daktronics rental partner, were at the centre of the celebration, offering hundreds of fans in attendance a larger-than-life view of the participating players and coaches, as well as highlights from the season.

GoVision brought in three huge mobile screens for the festivities, including its massive 19' x 33' 'GoBigger' unit - the world's largest mobile LED screen, featuring Daktronics HD-16 LED video technology. The company also brought its 9' x16' GoBig and 9' x 12' GoTron units, to make sure every fan had a front-row-worthy view of the celebration.

"Like everyone else across North Texas, we were riveted by the Rangers' postseason run, and absolu

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