Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Barco combines media server and luminaire to create powerful package

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Barco announced today the release of a fully optimized digital lighting package that harnesses the high brightness and DLP-quality video capabilities of the DML-1200 digital light and combines it with Axon Media Server. This improved solution offers tour companies, corporate events managers and fixed installations, such as houses of worship, expanded opportunities for creating dynamic, [...]

White Light Shortlisted for Best Green Business

White Light has been shortlisted for a 2010 Merton Business Award. Organised by Merton Council, the local council covering White Light’s south Wimbledon base, along with South London Business and the Merton Chamber of Commerce, the awards are designed to reward and celebrate the many dynamic and innovative businesses in the borough. White Light’s nomination [...]

Gearhouse South Africa Makes Major AV & Lighting Investments

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Gearhouse South Africa has recently made substantial investments in the latest AV and lighting technologies to ensure that the company stays at the technological forefront – offering the very latest products and services to its clients in the dynamic and fast changing world of show and event production. For those engaging the services of Gearhouse [...]

Robe Launches new Green Initiative at PLASA

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Robe launches a major new green initiative – “Think of the Future – Consider Nature” – at PLASA 2010 to underline its ongoing commitment to developing and producing genuinely cutting-edge, innovative and energy saving products. Using Robe’s latest products, the renowned booth lightshow will consume 30% less power than before, and look equally impressive. There [...]

Big Brother Africa All Stars with Robe

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Pretoria, South Africa, based Blond Productions are supplying lighting – including Robe moving lights – sound and AV to the new Big Brother Africa All Stars Series, which sees 14 of the most controversial, popular and interesting housemates from the first 4 BB Africa series’ battle it out for $200,000 and their place in the [...]

grandMA2 joins Phish On Rock Band’s Summer Tour

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Longtime grandMA user Chris Kuroda, who’s marking his 22nd year as the lighting designer for the rock band Phish, has taken a pair of grandMA2 full-size consoles along on the musicians’ cross-country summer tour. Lighting programmer Andrew Giffin suggested using the grandMA2 for lighting control, and Kuroda reports that the two desks have been “a [...]