Events

Harlequin Floors

Details: 14 March 2016

Harlequin Floors showed Hi-Shine, its high-gloss, wet-look floor for various applications, especially those that require quick load-ins and breakdowns.

Ocean Optics showed its Sea Changer, which adds CMY to any ETC Source Four. Its patented "extreme green" filter technology, which allows for deeper reds, greens, and blues than traditional CYM, drew much attention.

Blue Pony Digital

Details: 14 March 2016

Video content creators Blue Pony Digital, an offshoot of Apollo Design, promoted V2 of its website, which will include both the ability to purchase and download clips and support additional formats and content loops.

High End Systems

Details: 14 March 2016

High End Systems' newly debuted Studio Command wash fixture - a moving version of the Color Command dichroic colour-mixing fixture - drew large crowds. Making its official debut was the new Catalyst V4, with full support for high-definition (HD) content and LED fixtures, as well as a new GUI and a stand-alone playback option.

MA Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

Sharing a stand with A.C.T Lighting was MA Lighting, showing the release version of its media server for the grandMA console - grandMA Video. A reasonably priced product that uses standard PC hardware, it has support for four USB camera inputs and blind programming. grandMA Video also shares content details with any connected grandMA console.

Compulite

Details: 14 March 2016

Compulite's Yehuda Shukrun explained that the latest Vector Orange control console, launched successfully (with orders taken) at PLASA in London in September, has completed the Vector range, which now includes the Red, Blue, Green, Orange (or 'Lite') and a playback wing - offering a flexible, expandable suite of control options. The company will now concentrate on complementing the range with accessories, such as nodes and additional universes. The Vector Orange, the compact console in the range, offers control of four DMX512 universes (2048 attributes).

Also on show was the company's lower-cost Dlite range of consoles. Shukrun said that Compulite now has around 20 different consoles in full production, including the Vector, Dlite, 4D and Spark products, and stressed the importance that the company places on developing products that will be expandable and offer value for money to the p

Klark Teknik

Details: 14 March 2016

Klark Teknik made one of the only high-profile product launches of the show with the introduction of its Square One range of processors, which aims to bring the renowned KT audio quality at a lower price point to a whole new user base. Dave Wiggins explained that the more accessible pricing has been achieved by stripping back on features - not quality.

Featured in our last issue's New Technology pages, the range consists of the Square One graphic equaliser and the Square One dynamics. The graphic features 45mm faders with integral dust guards; signal present and clip LED indicators; fully balanced inputs and outputs; relay activated bypass; PROportional Q filters; high pass and low pass filters; universal power supply and a rugged 3U steel chassis.

Also from KT was Show Command, a new, integrated system of hardware, software and Ethernet technology offering full control of audio syst

Design and Drafting

Details: 14 March 2016

Design and Drafting showed the latest version of its award-winning LD Assistant software, which allows you to quickly create comprehensive lighting, sound, and video plots in 2D and 3D and now has an advanced visual library.

Goboland

Details: 14 March 2016

The main news at the show from Goboland, the Belgian gobo specialist, was that its recently established London office now has a familiar British face at its helm - that of Vicky Fairall, until recently of DHA Lighting. Fairall said she was relishing the opportunity that Goboland presented.

Robe Show Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

The atmosphere on the stand of Czech manufacturer Robe Show Lighting was upbeat, not just with their presence at the LDI show, but with the general level of acceptance its products have achieved, both in the US and globally. Harry Von Den Stemmen was very pleased to report that designers were now coming onto the company's booth especially to talk about Robe's fixtures as serious lighting tools - demonstrating a gratifying awareness and acceptance of the company's products in the marketplace.

The main new product focus at LDI was the LEDBlinder148, which was launched at PLASA in September. The LEDBlinder 196 and 148 units are Robe's first LED-based products aimed at entertainment applications. Fitted into industry-standard 8-lite and 4-lite casings, they bring the advantages of LED technology to an old stage lighting mainstay. Each two or four pairs of the 4- or 8-lite modules are separ

Altman Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

The award-winner at Altman Lighting was the Smart Track lighting system, a three-circuit track with DMX control built in. It allows the user to control Altman's Smart IQseries luminaires without cabling and remote dimmers, and mix and match source types on this track, even on the same circuit. With its DMX Adapter, you can break out DMX for controlling automated lights and other DMX-based lighting products. Also, the ODEC outdoor framing projector is a 70/150W CDM unit with 15-35° zoom focus, framing shutters, and glass/steel gobo capabilities.

Cast Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

Cast Lighting's Real World Scenery System hopes to do for automated scenery programming what WYSIWYG has done for moving light programming. Also, with a direct WYSIWYG connection to UK company Green Hippo's Hippotizer media software already working and video input via a capture card, Cast is tackling the challenges of media servers.

CITC

Details: 14 March 2016

Special effects innovator CITC showed the Santa Snow Machine; the Polar Controller, for low-ground fog; a new bubble machine, The Bubble Monster; and the Star Hazer II haze machine.

Strand Lighting

Details: 14 March 2016

Strand Lighting picked up the Lighting Product of the Year Award for its C21 sine wave dimming module. The C21 brings the ability to install ninety-six 2.4kW sine wave dimmers in one single rack. Users can also mix sinewave and conventional dimmers within the same rack, while a new Quad dimmer module allows SCR-based systems to achieve a density of 192 dimmers in a single rack. The new dimming system is fully networkable, and features a 16/32-bit RISC main processor running embedded Linux, an integrated Ethernet port, and Web-based configuration and dimmer status-reporting system. The first all-sinewave installation is at the Nashville Symphony Hall, where 1,000 C21 modules have been installed.

Wybron

Details: 14 March 2016

Wybron announced the implementation of Remote Device Management (RDM) into a number of products. The company is adding the LX nomenclature to all RDM-compatible products. Also shown was the Dogbone interface, which makes non-RDM compatible products RDM-compatible by plugging it into the DMX512 port of the product. Then there's the BP-2 beam luminaire, which the company says produces an intense soft-edge, narrow (10°) beam of light several times more intense than an ordinary spotlight of similar wattage.

PRG

Details: 14 March 2016

PRG showed the AutoPar wash unit, which incorporates Par 56 illumination with the features of an automated luminaire. Also shown was the Mbox Extreme media server.

Medialon

Details: 14 March 2016

Medialon reports that its media server products are have found widespread success in the US (on events including Creation at the Crystal Cathedral and Blue Man Group's latest show in Vegas). Look for V4 of its software in 2006. The company also promises an increased US presence this year.

Chauvet

Details: 14 March 2016

Chauvet had the Intimidator 2.0 five-channel intelligent scanner, the Insignia 2.0 five-channel intelligent barrel scanner, and the Intimidator 1.0 four-channel DMX intelligent scanner, plus the DMx-55, DMX-44, and DMX-7 universal DMX-512 controllers.

Applied Electronics

Details: 14 March 2016

Applied Electronics showed Australian manufacturer LSC Lighting's maXim series of lighting control consoles. Features include 32-bit processing power, resistive touch-screen editing, system "brown-out" protection, universal power supply, onboard self-diagnostics, pop-up status windows on the video display, and full text-labelling. Also shown was the I-Beam truss, round-tube aluminum truss with an internal I-beam inside the tubing to increase structural strength, the 6 x 1200W Dimmer Bar, and the Pelican case, for easy transport on wheels.

Link

Details: 14 March 2016

Link showed the latest enhancements to its eurocable ETN line of Cat 5e cables, especially designed for the live entertainment industry. According to managing director Craig Beyrooti, they were developed in response to requests for DMX and Ethernet transmission solutions.

Scharff Weisberg

Details: 14 March 2016

Scharff Weisberg showed G-LEC's LightFrame, another version of its LED frame products. This one is lighter and less expensive, making it available to designers of smaller events who are looking for a unique lighting/graphic effect.

Avolites

Details: 14 March 2016

Avolites showed a number of product developments for the first time in the US. These included its mDMX mains/DMX distribution system, and the P2P, a point-to-point narrow band transmission device for streaming DMX over long distances. Both systems integrate with eDMX, Avo's wireless DMX system, all of which together offer a complete toolkit for getting DMX from A to B and beyond.

Seen previously at PLASA, the ArtDC dimmer is a clever stand-alone unit which works from a DC battery supply. Wireless and eDMX enabled, it offers an ideal solution for dimming in remote, inaccessible places. Incidentally, Avo's Rik Salzedo reports good growth in dimming markets in the UK: ART2000 dimming is enjoying success in the film world, having been used on the Harry Potter films, as well as Tomb Raider, Bridget Jones, Die Another Day, The Italian Job and Charlie and the Ch

AVR

Details: 14 March 2016

AVR showed the full Ledion range of LED units, including Ledion Ultra LU1, a single-color LED fixture; the Ultra LU3 and Ultra LU6, both universal MR16 fittings; the Ultra LU12, a multi-purpose up- or downlight fitting; and the Ultra LU5 range of optical and non-optical linear strips, available in 400, 800, and 1,200mm lengths.

JBL

Details: 14 March 2016

The news from JBL was that that the company now offers networked versions of its VerTec DP Series. These integrated audio systems, compatible with the HiQnet System Architect Software, feature JBL DrivePack technology with extensive remote control and monitoring capabilities.

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