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UK - London-based event services company PSL has enjoyed its busiest season ever, supplying the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) with giant LED screens for cricket grounds throughout the UK. The 2006 contract has included a significant increase in the number of domestic games, more than 40 fixtures in the NatWest Pro40 League alone.

For the increasingly popular international matches, PSL is providing the ECB with Lighthouse 16mm LED screens. Two such screens, 6.84m x 9.14m, leapfrog one another around the country to the main grounds where they are mounted on goal-post type structures, built by PSL and branded by main match sponsors NatWest and Npower.

For each match, PSL provides the LED display with content from a dedicated PSL OB truck. The unit, which is using SDI transm

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UK - A.C. Lighting Ltd has announced details of a major online competition to win a Jands Vista S3 lighting control system and bonus Vista prize draw at this year's PLASA Show. The competition coincides with the launch of the new Vista S3 and Vista App hardware and software solutions, and is open to participants living in Europe, North America and the Middle East.

The main online competition officially launches on the A.C. Lighting stand at PLASA 06 - where the company will be showing final production models of the new Vista solutions - and runs until Friday 1st December 2006. Entrants have the chance to win a 1024-channel Vista S3 (with a list price of £4,200 / $9,244) or one of 100 free one-day Vista training vouchers.

The online competition consists of two stages. Entrants first download the Vista App PC software and follow instructions provided to build a basic light

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UK - Among the notable features of the new Big Chill House, spread across four floors at London's Kings Cross, is the signature sound system of Funktion One. Co-designed by installation company, Marquee Audio, and Funktion One dealers, Production Hire, the reconfigurable Res4/F-218 ground floor system is a favourite of Chillfest's Pete Lawrence.

Marquee Audio were introduced to the project as a result of installing the sound infrastructure at the original Peacock in Brick Lane, upgrading the venue when it was later taken over and converted into The Big Chill Bar. The festival promoters had started to get serious about venue development after merging with the Cantaloupe Group at the end of 2002, for whom Marquee Audio had also installed the high profile Cargo in Shoreditch.

The new venue occupies a large footprint on the Pentonville Road, giving them 1,246sq.m of net operating

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UK - Liverpool's Mathew Street Festival - Europe's largest free urban live music festival - proved another success for organisers The Liverpool Culture Company. The event kicked off with a classical concert on the main Pier Head stage by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and guests. The Pier Head site again ran two stages for all three days this year - after the success of introducing the second new bands stage last year.

The Culture Company was responsible for staging the event, co-ordinating and designing the complete technical infrastructure, booking and liaising with all artists and scheduling nearly 100 performances across five stages over the period.

Liverpool Culture Company's team was divided into three areas - Operations managed by Susan Lees, Site and Traffic Management managed by Alastair Stott and Production/Artist Liaison managed by Kirstie Blakeman. Whil

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UK - PLASA will be holding a prize draw at the PLASA Show for an amazing limited edition lithograph of Sir George Martin's score for the Beatles song 'Yesterday'. PLASA purchased the lithograph, which is signed by Paul McCartney and Sir George, to help support the rebuilding of a new cultural and community centre in Montserrat.

Tickets for the prize draw - which cost £10 each - can be purchased from the PLASA stand (FF1) on the Upper Deck of the PLASA Show. The proceeds of the draw will provide further help to complete the centre, which will provide a much-needed focal point for the regeneration of the island.

PLASA 2006 takes place from Sunday 10 September to Wednesday 13 September 2006 at Earls Court in central London. The show attracts professionals from all over the globe and is Europe's leading exhibition for new developments in the entertainment, event, corporate,

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UK - At the PLASA Show, Lab.gruppen will unveil its latest amplifier models. First up is the expansion of the popular C Series of installation-dedicated amplifiers with addition of four new amplifiers, two each in 8-channel and 4-channel formats. The new models, on show at PLASA '06, are the C 20:8X (8 x 250W), C 10:8X (8 x 125W), C 10:4X (4 x 250W) and the C 5:4X (4 x 125W). Power ratings for each are the same at 70V, 4 ohms, 8 ohms, and 16 ohms. The C 20:8X and C 10:8X weigh 9.5kg, while the C 10:4X and C 5:4X weigh 8.5kg. All models are in 2U cabinets and backed by Lab.gruppen's six-year, "no-quibble" warranty, say the company.

The new amplifiers employ a unique Class D implementation ideally suited to lower power levels where the benefits of Class TD are less easily realized and where cost versus performance is paramount. A newly developed universal switching power

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UK / Australia - Entertainment lighting supplier White Light is delighted to announce its appointment as the exclusive UK distributor for the products of LSC Lighting Systems from Australia. White Light will assume this role from the start of the 2006 PLASA Show, with LSC being officially welcomed into the White Light family of exclusive distributorship products at 12 noon on Sunday 10 September, the first day of the PLASA Show, on White Light's stand, G25.

LSC manufacturers a wide range of products covering everything from lighting control desks (including the XTC, Minim and maXim) and dimmers (the monoPAK, EKO and i-series installation, and e-series and TDS touring dimmers) to power and data distribution with products such as the Delta data splitters.

LSC's products are already in use in a great many venues 'down under' and around the world, and have become increasingly of i

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UK - Since opening in 1983, Bradford's National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (NMPFT) has gained international recognition for its work as well as becoming the most popular national museum outside London with visitor figures regularly exceeding 800,000 per year.

Part of the National Museum of Science and Industry, The NMPFT has an eclectic mix of interactive displays covering the three media subjects of its title and a busy calendar of special events such as film festivals and temporary exhibitions. It also has an IMAX cinema and the World's only publicly accessible Cinerama cinema.

In 1996, the museum embarked on an ambitious program of expansion and refurbishment; the sixteen million pound project lasted almost three years and actor Pierce Brosnan opened the new larger museum in the spring of 1999.

Originally built as a theatre by Bradford City Council, but neve

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UK - Highlite International BV is proud to announce that from the 1 September 2006 they are the exclusive distributor for Antari smoke and effects machines within the United Kingdom, through their UK division Highlite UK.

Antari will be located on the Highlite International stand at this year's PLASA show (stand E50), where the company will be showcasing its new S200 Silent Snow Machine. The unit has a newly-designed electronic controlling PCB, which gives the same level of output as the S100, but using lesser snow fluid and is silent running, say Antari.

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UK - LD Martyn Rourke used 40 Robe fixtures -20 ColorSpot 1200 ATs and 20 ColorWashes - for lighting the Vaynol (Faenol) Festival in North Wales, over the Bank Holiday weekend. The whole event was recorded for broadcast on BBC Wales and S4C, directed by Phil Chilvers. HSL supplied full lighting production and crew.

Set against a dramatic, mountainous Snowdonia backdrop, the four day music extravaganza featured headlining appearances by some serious Celtic talent including Westlife, Shirley Bassey, bass baritone Bryn Terfel, The Proclaimers and Welsh rockers Anweledig.

Rourke has lit the event since its inception seven years ago, but this was the first year he has brought in HSL as the lighting contractor. It's also the first year he used Robe.

The most important element of the lighting brief was to design and deliver a rig capable of the specific demands of lighting for TV w

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USA - Dolby Laboratories, announced today that Britannia Row Productions, a leading public address rental company in the United Kingdom, has purchased 13 Dolby Lake Processors for loudspeaker management on Robbie Williams' Close Encounters worldwide stadium tour.

The Dolby Lake Processors were chosen in particular to support Britannia Row's current huge L-Acoustics V-Dosc and dV-Dosc loudspeaker system inventory, much of which is now being used on the Robbie Williams tour. Britannia Row tour sales manager Roly Oliver commented: "At Britannia Row, we service very high-profile clients with the latest technologies from only the best equipment manufacturers. We did extensive research and evaluation of processors in the market and found that the Dolby Lake Processor was themost future-proof processing technology available. Support from Dolby's live sound group and its UK

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Italy - Rome-based multimedia systems integrators, Edisco - which has devised bespoke solutions for many industrial projects - has carried out a major upgrade of the emergency system on Rome's "Line A" underground system, which travels 20km from east to west across the city (and vice versa).

In the era of global terrorism, clear messaging procedures and fast evacuation of underground facilities are paramount. Thus having won a tender, instigated two years ago and issued by the Comune di Roma (system operators), Edisco turned to a solution from BSS Audio, a Harman International Company (NYSE-HAR).

Realising that the new system had to comply with the EN 60849 emergency/voice alarm standard, Edisco's project manager Gino Fioravanti has deployed 30 x Soundweb London BLU-80 devices - one for each of the 27 networked stations on the line; the remaining three are situated 5

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UK - XLNT Advanced Technologies will launch its new DMX / Ethernet data networking solutions at PLASA '06 on Stand G48. The XLNT DN2 DMX / Ethernet Node brings DMX / Ethernet conversion within everybody's reach.

Used in conjunction with the XLNT NS12P(F) GroundSwitch device, DN2 DMX / Ethernet Nodes create a cost-efficient, rock-solid and ultra-practical package for all DMX over Ethernet data distribution applications. This versatile extended network solution is ideal for a huge variety of data distribution tasks within the entertainment industry.

The XLNT DN2 DMX / Ethernet Node has a bright, clearly visible LCD display which provides an instant overview of all functions, and is housed in a lightweight, durable enclosure.

All variables are visible and configurable on the display, allowing patch, level and overview without requiring an external computer. The integrated M6 th

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The Netherlands - The expanded CyberHoist motion control system, with InMotion 3D software, will be on show in the UK for the first time at PLASA 06 on Stand G48.

As well an extended range of CyberHoist motors, more control options are now available in the DataMotion data distribution range, while the compact RC-1 Handheld Remote Controller provides fast and effective setup and derig without requiring use of the system's host computer.

The range of CyberHoist intelligent hoist motors has grown to three, joining the original 500 kg-capacity, 0-20 metres per minute (1 foot per second maximum) variable speed CyberHoist 500.

The new high-speed CyberHoist 250 motor is capable of lifting 250kg at variable speeds of 0-40 meters per minute (2.17 feet per second) - for smooth, fast and agile moves.The new, invertible, high lifting power CyberHoist 1000 features a 1000kg (1 ton) lifti

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Belgium - Plopsaland is the first of three 'Plopsa' amusement and attraction theme parks in Belgium equipped exclusively with Martin Audio speakers (involving more than 300 pieces of C115 and EM series). For the 2006 summer season a new attraction named 'Supersplash' was commissioned and installed. The ride involves 16 people being picked up in a boat, before travelling 16m by lift in 28 seconds; the boat then leaves the lift through a hatch and drops at high speed into the water, passing more bumps and bridges before arriving back at its start point.

The attraction only lacked some spectacular audio FX during those 28 seconds, and with that in mind Wouter Verhulst, technical director for the Plopsaland theme parks, contacted Ampco Belgium's sales manager Steven Kemland. Together with sound designer/producer and engineer Geert De Wit, they designed a surround set-up using 16 Mar

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USA - Bandit Lites is continuing to grow and add staff. In the UK, Bandit will be adding several new office staff members to accommodate the increased workload and provide better service to an expanding client base. Roger Grybowicz was a recent addition to Bandit's UK team.

Mark Powell, currently general manager of the UK operation, will be moving to theUnited States in October. A new management structure will be announced in the UK veryshortly. The accomplishments made under Powell's direction in the UK were remarkable, says the company and they "look forward to the next chapter in our European market growth".

Several key positions are also currently being created in Bandit's Nashville facilities.

(Chris Henry)

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UK - On Tuesday 12 September at this year's PLASA Show, Stage Technologies are holding exclusive automation control console demonstrations and training away from the main show floor in room R213, level 2, at Earls Court Exhibition Centre.

Short drop-in sessions (approximately 40 minutes long) will be held on the hour, from 11am - 3pm demonstrating a virtual theatre environment with WYSIWYG software integration. Attendees will be able to operate consoles and view moving axes in conjunction with the other training consoles and lighting effects.

Stage Technologies' support engineers will be available to answer any questions whether from client, user or operator's perspective and to provide 'hands-on' practical training opportunities.

(Chris Henry)

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UK - Soundcraft has unveiled another addition to the new Soundcraft Professional family, the multipurpose Soundcraft MPMTM Series.

The emphasis with all Soundcraft consoles is very firmly on quality build and audio performance, with an easy to understand control surface uncluttered by unnecessary facilities, says the company.

The highly-transparent GB30 Mic amp (also used on the larger LX7ii and GB Series consoles) features high-resolution adjustment over a wide gain range of 55dB, and provides a +22dB headroom through the console. True professional 48-volt phantom power caters for condenser microphones of all types.

Soundcraft MPM mixers are available in two standard models with 12 or 20 mono inputs, each model featuring two stereo inputs. For accurate channel control, the Soundcraft MPM console has 60mm high quality faders as used on other Soundcraft desks.

Each model ha

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UK - Denon Professional plan to push further into the burgeoning European AV market with the simultaneous launch of six playback devices known as the P Series. Each product in the range includes a 19in rackmount kit, and aside from the consequent ease of installation, conforms to rigid price, performance and reliability criteria. The Denon DN-C100P single CD player will be instantly recognisable for its bright white graphics and professional rear panel design.

As Denon's entry level CD player it has a feature set including CD/ CDR playback; IR control; optical digital output; programme and random playback as well as repeat playback (one track, one disc).

Expanding on this, the Denon DN-C200P 5-disc carousel CD player offers greater reliability than the 'cartridge' type of product. Key features include: CD/CDR playback; MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) playback from CD-ROM; IR

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USA - Elektralite, manufacturer of entertainment lighting fixtures and controllers, have announced the launch of PaintCan, an affordable colour-changing fixture that allows anyone to, literally 'paint with light'. Weighing only 20lb (9kg), the PaintCan is small enough to fit inside a 12" x 12" truss or hang side by side on a six-lamp bar.

Equipped with either the economical GLA or GLC 3200K lamp, PaintCan is able to output an infinite selection of colours using its full CMY mixing system or super-saturated Red, Green and Blue from its separate bi-directional wheel. PaintCan's electronic zoom is able to project a beam of 20° to 40° - the extra wide angle being especially useful when fixtures are placed "close-up" - with a separate break-up frost filter offering further beam manipulation. Light output is controlled accurately and smoothly using its on-b

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UK - Concept AV have recently completed a number of sound system installations in the leisure sector using proprietary Wharfedale enclosures. The company's Jason Lee explains that many of his system designs have been for primary contractor, AVL, and are based around the Huntingdon manufacturer's SI, Twin and Programme ranges.

Both the Junction bar/restaurant in Notts and Royston Leisure Centre in Herts feature multiples of the Programme series, powered by QSC amplification, optimised in the BSS Soundweb DSP, and providing the operators with local control via the BSS remote wall panels.

Situated at Kirkby-in-Ashfield, the once traditional Ritz Associates-owned Junction has now moved upmarket, and playback is handled via four Wharfedale Programme 80's and eight Programme 32's, split between the restaurant/bar and separate pool and snooker room.

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