Section: Announcements

ETC Training to Become First ETCP-Recognized Electrical Training Program

If you are an certified technician through ESTA ETCP, there is good news for you.  You have another way to earn credits towards your certification as well as increase your knowladge from ETC.
The non-profit trade association ESTA is the steward for the entertainment services and technology industry in North America, setting technical standards and protocols. [...]

Green Theatre Showcase at St. Norbert College By DesignLab

If you live in the land of Cheese, Point Beer and Green Bay Packers, and want to see some of the latest lighting products out there, you may be interested in the Green Theatre Showcase at St. Norbert College in DePere Wisconsin.  More from the Press Release:
Designlab Wisconsin, in association with St. Norbert College will [...]

Landru Design Announces New Vectorwork Plug-in: Staging ToolSet

Landru Design out of Nashville, TN has just announced the release of their latest Vectorworks plug-in, Stageing ToolSet. The 3-piece collection of tools creates Hybrid (2D and 3D) models of stage sections and risers, irregularly-shaped stage pieces, and “stage-style” step units.
Model elements can be easily reconfigured through Vectorworks’® familiar Object Info Palette include dimensions (depth, [...]

Steve Roudebush, New VP of Sales for BMI Supply

BMI Supply just announced yesterday, the promotion of Steve Roudebush to Vice-President of Sales, Marketing and Development for all of BMI Supply.  You may know Steve better at @steve_BMI on twitter. Congrats Steve, break-a-leg… or is it break-a-leg-o-matic?
More from the Press Release:
Cynthia L. Barber, President and CEO of BMI Supply, has announced the promotion of [...]

Field Template Releases New 1/2″ Striplight Placemat

Steve Shelley, the owner of Field Templates sent me a note about his latest drafting template, the new 1/2″ Striplight Placemat. More from the Field Template Press Release:
FIELD TEMPLATE is proud to introduce the updated 1⁄2″ STRIPLIGHT PLACEMAT. Fresh off the grill, this template sizzles with the latest technology. Along with the latest ETC Source [...]

Time Square Lighting Announces Architectural LED Fixture

Time Square Lighting has recently announced their latest lighting fixture, the LED1738. The LED1738 is LED architectural replacement par fixture that is equivalent to a 75W halogen PAR or 39W metal Halide fixture.  The fixture runs on 110v and consumes about 17w of power.
There are there beam spreads available at 15, 23 and 32 degrees [...]

Eurolite Introduces LED KLS-800

Eurolites out of Germany has just introduced a new LED fixture to their current line up of KLS series of lighting fixtures, the KLS-800.  The KLS-800 is as light-weight as its predecessor, along with the same housing, but considerably brighter.
More from the Press Release:
The KLS-800 is comprised out of four individual, flat and separately directional [...]

ETC Announces More Ion Training Sessions

Are you looking to get more intimate with the ETC Ion console?  ETC just announced more training session around the country through March and April. The training sessions are broken down into two days.  The first dealing with Ion Fundamentals with an introduction to programming on the Ion. The second day is for intermediate users [...]

Martin Announces Tripix IP65 Exterior LED Striplight

Martin Professional adds to its rapidly growing range of innovative LED luminaries with the Tripix 1200™ and Tripix 300™, the first fixtures in a new line of IP65 rated outdoor LED striplights.
Tripix are the first installation LED fixtures from Martin to offer single lens tricolor RGB mixing – a superior color wash system that projects [...]

Barco/High End Announce New Fog Generator FQ-100

Barco/High End just announced the release of a new fog generator, the FQ-100.  If you are familiar with High Ends F-100, then you might already be familiar with the FQ-100.
More from High End
The FQ-100™ performance fog generator is designed to meet the rigorous demands of the nightclub, theatrical and touring industries. This updated version of [...]

ESTA Behind the Scenes Holiday Card Student Design Contest

Behind The Scenes, an initiative of The ESTA Foundation, announces its first-ever holiday card student design contest, open to any lighting, set, video or costume full-time design student interested in creating an original design for a 2010 card.
The winner will be chosen by an all-star panel of previous holiday card designers including Bob Bonniol, Beowulf [...]

ETC Releases Updates to Congo and Eos Family Consoles

Time for some update to almost all of ETC’s family of consoles. ETC recommends that you download and update your console with the current version of the console software as these two release’s mainly deal minor issues that have been fixed since the last version update.
More from ETC’s announcement:
Congo v6.0.3
ETC is happy to announce the [...]