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Qatar - MTFX played a major role in the Opening Ceremony of the 15th Asian Games at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha in December, following more than nine months of planning.

MTFX was approached in April 2006 and asked to develop a very large low fog effect to fill the entire stadium floor in order to represent the sea as a ship passed across the stadium. After the development of several prototypes, the effect was achieved and the whole system manufactured and tested just two weeks before the shipping date.

The company also provided CO2 jets and a series of Sequenced Flame effects. As these were being built on to the top of 10m high structures which represented the City of the Future, each flame effect had to be custom-built on to each unique piece. Despite the adverse weather conditions, with the worst storm the country has seen for 25 years, the long months of planning and develo

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USA - Red-haired zany comedian Carrot Top (Scott Thompson) is headlining at the Luxor in Las Vegas with the aid of Elation Professional Design Spot 250 moving head fixtures. Twelve of the automated 250W fixtures were recently installed at the Luxor venue, where Carrot Top is currently giving 280 performances a year, to provide "a new element to the show," said Dan O'Leary, production and tour manager for Carrot Top. "There were already 120 automated lights in the room, but we wanted something that would add a whole new dimension and give a completely different look," explained O'Leary.

"However, with so much lighting and trussing and a big video screen filling the stage area, space was at a premium. There are only a couple inches' clearance on either side of our video truss when you fly it up. We needed a fixture that would fit into our limited stage spa

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New Zealand - With the release of the third and final model in the 'standard setting' Selecon Performer series of followspots, the range is now complete. Attendees of the ProLight&Sound show in Frankfurt (28-31 March) will be amongst the first in the world to check out the long-throw Toru 4°-8° followspot during its official debut.

Toru (the Maori word for 'three') delivers the same lift in efficiency, performance and operator features that were first realised in the wider angle Rua (9°-16°) and Tahi (18°-24°) models which were launched last year.

Delivering 1000 lux at 90m - 4° and 1000 lux at 53m - 8°, Toru provides the output to cut through the brightest outdoor or large venue entertainment lighting rig, near the output of Xenon units yet costing much, much less and only requiring a domestic outlet to power the unit, says Selecon.

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Romania - Paradigma Group hosted the official opening of its brand new headquarters on 8 March, based in Bucharest, as the final part of a special Romanian-Dutch joint venture in the entertainment technology market. His Excellency Dhr. J. Werner, Dutch Ambassador to Romania, was guest of honour at the opening ceremony.

The purpose built 3,500sq.m headquarters, just a few miles from Bucharest's Otopeni International Airport, is divided into offices and warehouses. The space enables Paradigma Group to maintain large rental stocks of audio, lighting, video and staging equipment, to provide professional servicing and training facilities, as well as housing the group's sales company including a showroom and maintenance department.

Paradigma Group is a joint venture between Ampco Flashlight Holding BV of Holland and AEI Broadcast Concept, one of the leading facilities companies in R

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UK - ADB Lighting has launched its new website (www.adblighting.com), designed to make navigation around the company's wide range of products and support services much easier, the company says.

A new, lively, user friendly interface presents the ADB range in product families, with colour photography throughout, and introduces a 'search by market' feature that allows viewers to view products from all product families that are relevant to either television, rental, theatre or architectural applications.

Other new or redesgined features include the information request and downloads areas, trade show information, subscription to email based news and ADB's Insight newsletter, and a secure distributors' area.

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UK - Bandit Lites UK is supplying the current Bryan Ferry UK and European tour with full lighting production and crew. This marks Bandit's first tour with the artist, whose hit-making career stretches back to the 1970s. Lighting designer for this tour is Graham Feast, and Bandit also worked with production manager, Jason Danter, on the project.

Bryan Ferry is performing songs from his new Dylanesque album, plus a few carefully selected classic Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music blockbusters. Ferry, a former fine art student, has some very clear ideas on visuals himself and is good at communicating these. Together, Ferry and Feast decided to make the show look totally different from a Roxy Music gig, keeping it moody, mysterious and with a definite 'sense of the unknown'.

On the first UK leg of the tour, they are playing concert halls and theatres. With no production rehearsals, j

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UK - For chart topping Mika's current series of live dates, lighting designer Ian Tomlinson chose a mixture of fixtures, including: 12 PixelLine Micro Effects, 12 PixelLine 1044s, six PixelPars, six MAC 250 washes, six Mirrorballs and "lots of festoon".

The diverse rig allows Tomlinson to produce big theatrical effects, injecting visual creativity to the various characters that Mika brings to life during his shows. The Micros form an arch at the back of the stage and their high powered effects complemented the 1044s.

Tomlinson comments: "The Micros hold their own against the 1044s, I was very impressed and hopefully on the next tour we will introduce a media server. I'm pleased PixelLines are now available in different sizes, as it allows more flexibility in the rig - particularly when we are touring venues of different sizes."

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Italy - Three grandMA full-size, one grandMA light, three MA mediaPCs with grandMA video and two NSPs were on the equipment list for the Deutsche Bank convention in Turin. Lighting designer Giovanni Pinna, who also worked as set designer and operator, had chosen MA technology for this event, because "we wanted to integrate a lot of video. With grandMA video we got a powerful tool that is easy to handle and provides a very fast and direct access of the media server content due to the integration into the MA-Net. No other media server on the market is that comfortable."

In total, three screens were used for the videos - one screen measured 12m x 2.5m and two screens for back-projection. Pinna relates: "The aim was to create a multimedia show based on animations, video effects and projections with the possibility to interact with special Deutsche Bank content, backgr

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USA - City Theatrical has released its new line of Stackers tapered top hats. Stackers are designed to stack without sticking and to save space on the shelf and in transport, while maintaining all of the benefits of standard top hats.

Stackers' patent pending design allows them to stack neatly on the shelf, but a ridge on the top hat prevents sticking, no matter how much pressure is applied, the company says. All Stackers feature black flocked interiors to reduced light bounce and round frames to allow rotation of half top hats to the most advantageous angle.

A full line of 20 different varieties of Stackers are available including 6.25", 7.5", 10", 12" and 14" diameters in full, half, short full, and short half styles to suit the needs of lighting designers.

Top hats are used in lighting design for two primary purposes: to reduce spill light from li

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Germany - ETC's SmartFade ML (ML for moving lights) console will make its European debut at ProLight&Sound in Frankfurt later this month. The latest addition to ETC's Smart Solutions line of basic lighting gear - which includes portable control consoles, dimmers, luminaires and stands - the SmartFade ML is aimed at small touring acts, schools, product launches and corporate events.

SmartFade ML's professional features include palettes, parameter "fan" and built-in dynamic effects. Its direct access style of operation means that students, volunteers and non-technicalstaff can be lighting memorable shows in minutes, suggests ETC.

With a capacity for up to 24 moving lights and an additional 48 intensity channels (dimmers), plus the ability to patch to two complete universes of DMX512A (1,024 outputs), SmartFade ML provides a solid range of control for smaller lighting r

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Denmark - In order to provide users with "the best product documentation possible" Martin Professional has recently added a new, functional, and useful area to its website(s). The Product Resource Centre (www.martin.com/product/resource.asp) is a one-stop shop for all content related to an individual Martin product - information which users might otherwise have to click through a number of pages to find. The Product Resource Centre covers the complete Martin entertainment and Martin Architectural product lines.

At the Product Resource Centre users will find comprehensive information on Martin products such as features and description; press releases, including product news and associated case stories; videos and images; brochures and leaflets; other marketing material such as screensavers; technical data, including in-depth specifications, user manuals, instruction not

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UK - Recolight, now approved as a producer compliance scheme for gas discharge lamps and related equipment, is hosting six workshop events this spring to update and explore the impact of the WEEE Regulations with all stakeholders involved in the lamps market. The WEEE Regulations come into full force on 1 July 2007 so it is hoped that the timing of these workshops will prove very helpful to all those involved in dealing with lamps - electrical distributors, contractors, and local authorities, says Recolight.

Recolight will "seek to establish an efficient and cost effective process for recycling end-of-life lamps and related equipment, which is fully compliant with the Regulations. This will involve supporting and facilitating the development of a national network of collection points for end-of-life products and arranging contracts for the collection and recycling of such p

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USA - Colorado-based lighting innovator Wybron reports that it is "picking up the pace of new product development and delivery". The company says it is committed to introducing one product per month up to the start of the professional lighting trade show season.

"Our customers have asked us to provide them with a more diverse product line," said Miles Dudgeon, director of marketing at Wybron. "This is just the beginning of our response to their demands."

"By giving our customers what they want and need, we can take advantage of market demand and increase the strategic value of our relationships," added Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "We are seeing rapid adoption of Wybron's products in certain markets and expect this pace to increase."

In addition to developing products for Wybron's sales channel, the company is working with ot

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UK - Entertainment lighting supplier White Light was asked by set and lighting designer David Amos to work with him on the lighting for this year's showcase concert at Hurtwood House, one of the top higher education schools for the performing arts in the country.

Amos has been designing shows for Hurtwood House for several years, working with resident director Miles Russell and guest West End choreographers to create. This year, the designer decided to try a different approach to the show. "I persuaded Miles that rather than using the theatre in its standard end-on format, we should do the show side-on, using the full width of the theatre," he explains.

"This presented the production with many challenges in terms of audience seating, which had to be built from scratch, and the close proximity of the band to the audience. Luckily they have a great sound team at H

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UK - LD Neil Trenell specified an Avolites Diamond 4 to control lighting and a Hippotizer digital media server for Lily Allen's recent UK theatre tour which featured her largest production to date.

The D4 Elite was controlling 32 of the new Robe Series 700 ColorSpot and Color Wash fixtures, 16 i-Pix Satellites used for toning the front and rear trusses, five 4-cell blinders on the front truss, 14 strings of festoons, several hundred feet of rope light, five sets of Christmas tree lights draped over the backline, four mirror balls and two compressed air confetti cannons. All lighting and FX equipment was supplied by HSL.

The D4 was also triggering Trenell's own Hippotizer digital media server, loaded up with content driving a 10x10m Soft-LED backdrop. Trenell's lightshow for Allen has a bouncy, up-tempo carnival feel to it - in keeping with her renowned spirited and lively perf

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Sweden / Germany - Wireless Solution Sweden will be displaying the new W-DMX Generation 3 product range at ProLight&Sound, in addition to the new W-DIM Standard, the latest OEM partner product from RC4 Wireless of Toronto.

Generation 3 includes new and improved features such as easy overview of signal strength and battery power, plus full implementation of DMX over Ethernet. W-DMX has the full support of RDM, is CE and ETSI certified in Europe and Asia, FCC certified in the Americas (awaiting UL), and is certified in Japan with ARIB STD-T66 radio standards.

The R-512 Pro Receiver and T-1 Transceiver will be shown as well, featuring a 'one button technology' toggle, allowing the unit to easily switch from receiver to transmitter. A complete new and updated outdoor range is also available.

PCBs are built into the new RC4 4-channel W-DIM series of wireless dimmers, delivering 1

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UK - ChamSys Ltd has announced that Lighting Partners has become an agent for sales of ChamSys Magic consoles and MagicQ wings for the UK. ChamSys reports heavy growth over the past few months, and believes that with the increased demand for its products, the affiliation with Lighting Partners will be a great success.

Lighting Partners has achieved success with its two website-based businesses, usedlighting.co.uk, which concentrates on the re-sale of used and ex-hire equipment and stagelighting.co.uk which sells new products.

ChamSys says that the MagicQ can be used for live events, theatre, TV, touring, architectural and installation applications and offers full-speed playback, even with all channels patched; the ability to customise and configure settings and layout; a reliable Linux operating system, with in-built UPS, industrial processor and show archiver; virtually unlim

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USA - Christian rock group Jars of Clay added High End Systems' DL.2s to their North American tour. "Every city we have gone to we get the 'wow' factor of what the DL2 can do. There are so many ways to use the fixture," says tour LD Kevin Maas of lighting contractor The Opera Shop in Denver. "I have used it to do something as simple as a stage wash for some extra color, as well as to project aerials into the crowd and on a cyc. The band has been really pleased with the fixture. Every day we try to do something new and creative. There are so many stock images and video that can be used. Using DL2 is a great part of creating the mode for each song."

Lighting contractor is The Opera Shop of Denver. TLS of Huntsville, Alabama, provided the two DL.2s on the tour, which runs until 15 April. Production manager is Mark DuFrene of Austin, Texas.

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USA - A.C. Lighting Inc. has appointed two new US sales representatives to support its continuing growth of business in the North American market. Lori French and Keith Lewandowski join A.C.'s sales team in the newly created roles of Eastern US and Western US Sales Executives respectively, providing office and in the field support for the company's stockholding of leading technology brands.

Lewandowski has over 15 years' technical and sales experience from his previous roles at Leprecon LLC. After joining in 1992 assembling control consoles and dimmers, he then moved into sales and marketing in 1998, where he was responsible for product training, territory management and technical support.

French has held highly successful sales roles for over 20 years in a variety of industries and joins A.C. from Creative Stage Lighting, where she gained five years of industry experience bui

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France - Sebastian Jurkowski, lighting designer at the Mix Club in Paris, has combined the power of ChamSys MagicQ and ArKaos VJ DMX to create the live visual mixes on the club screens and LED panels.

The Mix Club can accommodate up to 2000 people a night on its large dance floor, its two bars and VIP mezzanine. A total of 100 automated projectors, thousands of LEDs and two ArKaos VJ DMX MSEx media servers are controlled through Ethernet via a MagicQ MQ100 console and Dual Playback Wing which uses six DMX512 universes (nearly 3000 channels).

Thanks to the very short delay between the console and the screens, each of the 16 layers can be triggered at the tip of a finger, allowing instant access to any video or effect, says ChamSys. The MagicQ Media Engine allows for live thumbnail previews directly on the console, with separate previews for each media layer, as well as a previe

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USA - ETC has posted free source code for the upcoming DMX over ACN standard (also referred to as streaming ACN) to its website, "to help the industry gain experience with this upcoming protocol and offer meaningful user input to the ESTA standardisation process".

A link to this C++ source code may be found at www.etcconnect.com/product.downloads.asp?ID=20339.

ETC is also offering optional source code that adds features to streaming ACN and provides a flexibility and power similar to ETCNet2 protocol.

ETC has long supported the development of ESTA standards for lighting control, such as the new ACN suite of protocols (Architecture for Controls Networks, E1.17). With ACN now an ANSI standard (as of October 2006), ETC is involved in the addition of a new protocol for the ACN suite. The

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Czech Republic - Robe Show Lighting will showcase its latest moving light and digital lighting products at Prolight & Sound in Frankfurt. These will include the ColorWash 2500E AT, the new 700 Series, Robe's StageQube 324 and the DigitalSpot 5000 DT, complete with new functions. Robe will also highlight the new StageFaze 1500AT and its powerful, expediently sized Club Series of moving lights.

The ColorWash 2500E AT is the most powerful wash light currently available in the Robe range. Using the MSR Gold 1200 SA/SE FastFit lamp and a 1400W electronic ballast, the fixture offers a smooth linear motorised zoom, full CMY + CTO colour mixing system, two colour wheels with six easily replaceable slots and combined dimmer/shutter unit.

Also highlighted will be Robe's newly released 700 Series of moving heads, featuring the ColorSpot 700E AT, ColorWash 700E AT and the ColorWash 750AT

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USA - GearSource has added another account executive who will be based on the West Coast. Shaun Robinson joins GearSource following many successful years with the Guitar Center companies. Most recently, Robinson served for GC Pro where he became one of the company's banner sales associates and established a large following, especially among nightclubs and other installs.

GearSource president, Marcel Fairbain says: "We've worked with Shaun for many years as a client of both GearSource and most recently, LED Source. He's a great guy, and will add a very cool dynamic to our organisation".

In related news, GearSourceEurope has completely re-vamped and redesigned its website, making it easier to navigate and locate items of interest rapidly. GearSourceEurope was established at the beginning of 2006 and has grown to incorporate a large stock of audio, lighting and staging

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UK - Live event company Essential Lighting has invested over £1,000,000 to expand its hire stock with a wide range of lighting fixtures from Martin Professional. This new investment adds over 240 moving head fixtures from Martin, including MAC 2000 Profiles, MAC 2000 Washes, MAC 700 Profiles, MAC 700 Washes, MAC 550s, MAC TW1s, MAC 250 Washes and Entours.

Essential Lighting is a leading supplier to the live event business, delivering lighting for challenges as diverse as the BBC Proms, Ford product launches and the Conservative Party conference. For the MAC 2000 Profile, Essential will be offering a choice between the standard Martin Gobo set and the world famous Woodroffe gobo set.

Essential's managing director Martin Locket said: "The time was right to make a long term investment. Our experience over the years gave us the confidence to expand our business with Mar

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