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14 March 2016

Jim Hutchison, product manager wysiwyg and Vivien, will present the seminar entitled, The Birth, Childhood, and Apparent Adolescence of Lighting Design Technology as part of the PLASA Focus Professional Development Programme. The seminar will be held on Monday, 12 November from 1:30-2:30pm and again on Tuesday, 13 November from 12:30-1:30pm in the Massachusetts Room.

Hutchison's session will take trip through the last 75 years or so of lighting Design technology, from its birth with paper and pencil through the ab

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FRESH is a conference focused purely on meeting design. Attendees will experience, discover and learn about the latest tools and techniques to improve meetings and conferences and make them more effective. They can meet and confer with professionals in all aspects of meeting planning including design, production, facilitation, evaluation and much more. This mix of people and products make FRESH the conference of choice for anyone wishing to optimise the effectiveness of meetings, say the organisers.

This year the FRESH conference has a special focus on meeting formats, session formats and presentation formats, meaning visitors can expect an immersive and varied experience. Sessions include the 'learning carousel', featuring

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"The Bus, which has travelled the US for the past 15 years, visiting schools, musical and technology conferences and events, is only made possible through the generosity of its various sponsors, " confirms Chris Steele, product manager, Marquis Broadcast. "We have been delighted to contri

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Says UEP's Steve Butcher: "The concept always involves creating a comfortable and high tech looking environment to reflect a trendy up-to-the-minute industry. Working this space at the Northumberland means we have to juxtapose our temporary setting appropriately against the Victorian splendour of the room."

It was also the first live event for UEP's brand new 12mm pitch LED screen, which has just been delivered to their warehouse in Buckinghamshire.

The Mobile Choice set was based

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LDI saw the North American debut of two new products from Arkaos, the ArKaos MediaMaster 3.0, complete with new Video Mapper extension, and the new Stage Media Server. A.C. Lighting Inc presented the new products by saying, "The ArKaos team brings an incredibly intuitive approach to the complex problem of video mapping."

ArKaos has introduced its Video Mapper extension for MediaMaster Pro to provide an easy means of mapping video onto irregularly shaped surfaces and through multiple outputs.

Designed to enable the setting u

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Headquartered in Dubai, TechnoPro LLC is one of the Middle East's leading suppliers of technology for the entertainment market. Its over 12,000 m2 warehouses in Dubai, Qatar, and Lebanon house a large stock of state-of-the-art equipment, from over 25 manufacturers, including the lighting products of Barco High End Systems. The company's experience and professional staff, its outstanding facilities and its large market coverage in the entertainment industry were all reasons for Barco to rely on TechnoPro for the distribut

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14 March 2016

XL's project managers Phil Goddard and Robin Evans combined seamless plasmas with conventional 85 inch screens and MiStrips to produce a highly innovative exhibition environment as well as a visually enticing display on the outside of the venue.

The novel mobile brand activation space is a concept created by brand engineers Proud Robinson and designed by Jump Studios, Constructed from four specially modified sea freight containers sitting widthways behind one another. Another two containers on top of these provide a control / technical area and a coffee terrace / lounge.

The 125 x 1.5m MiStrips are wrapped around the outside

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Similar to G Series, the four new E Series projectors deliver attractive price performance, higher brightness, and increased flexibility and reliability for both fixed and rental staging applications, the company continues.

At 5,000 lumens and offering a choice between HD (1920 x 1080) and WUXGA (1920 x 1200) resolutions, the Christie G Series is an ideal choice for board and conference rooms, government, houses of worship, higher education facilities and a variety of small venue applications. Installation is ea

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Willis has played many roles in the concert touring industry since his start in the 1980s. With a law degree in hand, he left New Zealand to tour as a lighting tech. He returned to New Zealand in 1989 and soon become general manager of Theatrelite - a manufacturer of lighting consoles and dimmers - where he established a dealer network throughout Australia and Asia. In the early 1990s he moved to Tennessee to join Bandit Lites as marketing manager, moving up to vice president. While there he established relationships with the industry's top designers, production and tour managers for WWE, Van Halen, Queen, Radiohead and more.

"Afte

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An amateur production of Hairspray the Musical staged by one of Victoria's largest non-professional musical theatre companies, PLOS Musical Productions, provided the ideal opportunity due to the requirement for a fully projected set. Large moveable set pieces constructed from polystyrene called for a media server solution capable of individually mapping over 90 different projection surfaces as the set pieces were moved into numerous configurations for each scene.

BAAC Light co-founders Andrei Chlebnikowski (projection designer) and Brad Alcock (lighting designer) opted to upgrade their MediaMaster licenses prior to the official release in order to have acce

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With a surface area that has tripled in size, the new facility now occupies over 1000sq.m and hosts a vast area dedicated to service and training. It also has several dedicated spaces including a showroom for staging live demos, several rooms for seminars and training courses, along with an extended sales open space.

The new office is headed by Pascal Gervais, regional director, Christie for France. He enthused, "Following more than ten years of constant growth and successful brand development in the French market, and since we exceeded our capaci

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This is designed to "enhance the Happy Meal experience, and to increase kids' interaction with their favourite Happy Meal characters".

Tasked with delivering this solution in restaurants with high family footfall, integrated marketing agency, The Marketing Store, contacted Bedford-based Paradigm AV.

And by using the company's advance gesture-controlled technology they were able to create and develop the Happy Meal Digital Play concept - a series of movement-activated, interactive floor media games, linked to each Happy Meal promotion.

Paradigm first began working with McDonald's UK in 2010, trialling ceiling mounted projectors to create this digital floor play, with the content, projected onto the

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The ceremony - celebrating its 30th anniversary - was staged at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel, London, UK.

It was the first time that XL has been involved in the event - brought onboard by production company Reality Ltd. with whom they have worked on numerous other occasions. XL Events' Paul Wood project managed, working closely with Reality's Paul Corrick on the design and presentation, and specification of the video equipment.

The event took place during the afternoon, and for the first time ever, a livestream of the ceremony was hosted on YouTube.

The look and styling of the video elements were crucial given the

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The Visual Experience Road Show offers the opportunity for resellers, end-users and distributors to meet with the Panasonic team and see live demonstrations of the very latest Panasonic professional projectors and displays. Attendees will also have the opportunity to take a tour of the product and solutions on display along with Panasonic technical experts who will be able to assist with any questions. Everyone that attends will benefit from gaining a greater understanding of the range the application possibilities and specifications of each product.

Amongst the solutions on display will be new additions such as the now PT-DZ21K series projector which debuted in July at the London 2012 Olym

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Two top-of-the-line Christie Solaria CP2230 series digital projectors will flood the screen for the highly anticipated film premiere with more than 12 foot lamberts (ft-L) brightness, revealing astonishing detail in the scenery, costumes and expressions of the characters. The current standard for 3D light levels on screens is 3 to 4.5 ft-L, while 2D light levels are standardised at 14 ft-L. The Christie®

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Since it was founded in 1994, DB Systems has built an award-winning track record of delivering bespoke AV, IT and networking services at exhibitions, conferences and other types of events worldwide. The company's Event Networks division was founded in 2009 to specialise in providing enterprise-scale AV and IT solutions for major events. With high performance wireless now a critical success factor at such large scale forums, being able to provide a network that can handle high densities of mobile devices is just as important to the company's ongoing success.

According to Oliver Richardson, DB S

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The event took place at Marina Bay Sands and was attended by business people and renowned public figures from various industries in Singapore.

The Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards (APEA) is one of the region's most prestigious awards-giving bodies which recognises and honours business leaders who have exhibited outstanding performance and persistence in the development of their businesses, says the company.

Organized by Enterprise Asia and APF Group Pte Ltd, APEA is supported by local governments and businesses. It aims to urge advancement, fair practices and expansion in the field of entrepreneurship.

"The awards judging process is meticulously screened and audited by regionally ackn

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14 March 2016

Neets EasyConnect solves one of the most common and frustrating problems encountered in AV presentations - When a guest presenter wants to connect a laptop computer, all too often the proper cables cannot be found, or they are too short, or the connection point is hidden away in a floor pocket or wall panel. Neets EasyConnect is the obvious solution.

All necessary connections are readily accessible, right on the tabletop or lectern, inside this durable metal enclosure. The standard version accommodates all five typical connections for laptop computers and most tablet-type mobile devices. A sixth cable (optional) can be included to accommodate, for example, a DVI connector, an XLR microphone, ¼" audio jack or RCA jack for composite vi

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The star-studded red carpet event, held at London's Royal Albert Hall, was attended by HRH Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and the stars of the film along with a host of other celebrity guests.

After attendees arrived on the red carpet and ascended the stairs towards the Royal Albert Hall they were met with the sight of the classic Aston Martin DB5 with a backdrop of 75 tiles of Pixled F-12.

This stage was used for interviews with the stars of the film hosted by David Walliams and Natasha Kaplinski.

To the right and left of the stage two additional tall LED displays, each with 141 tiles of Pixled F-12 displayed pre-programmed content including movie logo animations, and phot

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New features include RegionMapper, X-Fade on Layer, Muti-Select, Mackie, Presets2, MaNet, Time Code On-A-Layer and Watch Folders along with a host of smaller features and Bug Fixes.

Hippotizer product manager Lee House says, "3.2 is the result of a new way that Green Hippo are bringing software to the users. We have invested in new processes and team members to make sure that we have taken all the requests from our users and created something special for them. As innovators in the market, again we have pushed

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Funding from the Spanish government, in the form of an International Campus of Excellence grant, facilitated this. The former L-shaped VR facility was decommissioned and with the aid of Bedford-based Simulation Displays, working through Spanish-based 3D/virtual reality specialists, Bienetec, a new three-sided CAVE and floor have been constructed, along with a separate HD Active Stereo PowerWall for projecting large computer generated images.

Four different rooms have been remodelled into one large rectangular space for the purpose - with the rear sections of both sy

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14 March 2016

Video was specified by lighting, set and visuals designer Steven Douglas, known for his innovative and original approach. It renews a positive and long-term working relationship between XL Video and the band, and follows XL's supply of video specials for festival headliners and own shows throughout the summer. XL's project managers are Jo Beirne and Phil Mercer.

Douglas's starting point for the tour design was that the band wanted the stage to have a generally more raw and stark look and feel than in the past. He also wanted the video to be different, distinctive and edgy, toned with subtlety and suggestion yet high

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The group attracts 47,000 people per week to shows in New York, Boston, Chicago and Orlando, with a new Las Vegas production now open at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino.

According to BMG show director Bill Swartz, the effects illustrate the group's creative idea that a hybrid space exists between real life and the technical world of phones and texts. "We call it 2.5D space," he says.

The modular 320mm x 160mm digiTHIN tiles are fixed to the performers using magnetic mou

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Throughout the ceremonies, the audience were able to hold TAIT's pixel tablet in their hand, becoming part of the vast seamless ring of images surrounding the stadium seating area. TAIT created 70,500 tablets, one for each stadium seat, integrating the audience into the ceremony performance. Opening Ceremony artistic director Danny Boyle worked with Frederic Opsomer, CEO of TAIT Technologies on his vision of turning the audience into a giant canvas.

"The assembly of dispersed LED pixels to form very large video images has been with us for some time,&