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Update: ADB Lighting HATHOR Desk PHOTO

I got a lovely little surprise in my inbox after coming back from lunch.  Looks like a reader has seen the HATHOR console or possibly knows some one at ADB lighting to be sending this along.  What can we tell from this photo?  It seems as though the codenamed HATHOR desk coming from ADB Lighting [...]

Martin Has Even More Coming at ProLight + Sound

This week has been all about Martin’s rumored new control surface which is being officially announced next week at ProLight + Sound.  It all started with a little video and then some more details about the desk.  Well, it looks like that is not all that Martin is announncing next week.  They have a couple [...]

Rumor Confirmed: ADB Lighting to Preview New Desk at ProLight + Sound

ADB Lighting out of Belgium is preparing to preview a “new generation control desk” as ProLight + Sound next week in Frankfurt Germany. ADB will be showing of a prototype of their multi-modal lighting and video flagship desk codenamed HATHOR. So what makes this new desk so revolutionary? Here is what little ADB is saying [...]

Rumor Mill: Sneak Peak From Martin @ ProLight + Sound

I received a VERY interesting email yesterday for one of my contacts deep under cover at the Denmark plant of Martin Professional.  They sent me a link to a server that has disappeared as of this morning.  Thank goodness I was I able to snag a copy of the file off the server before that [...]

Rumor Mill: Selecon Prepin’ to Release New Fixture at ProLight + Sound

It looks like the small fortune I invested in a spy mic has finally paid off… well, finally given me something!  Back in early February, I sent a fruit basket to the Kiwi’s at Strand Selecon to celebrate Waitangi Day.  Little did they know a mic was hidden inside! I guess they never found it [...]

Rumor Mill: New iPhone App on the Way

While down at the Southeast Theatre Conference, (SETC), I previewed yet another lighting iPhone app.  While I can not say to much about it here as it is still in development and beta testing… I can say it is nice!  It is going to make some lighting folks lives a little bit nicer and easier [...]

Lighting App Coming for Android

Listen up all of you Droid users. Look like a gent out of the UK is working on a Lighting App for you.  From the very short YouTube video it looks like the app is still in heavy development.  But it shows that someone out there feels your pain of not having any Lighting Apps [...]

The New Step for iPhone Lighting Apps

Yesterday I mentioned yet another lighting iPhone app being released to the market. It just adds to the growing list of lighting iPhone apps already out there. There are quite a few… less expensive iPhone apps that seem to do the exact same thing, just in a different way or with a different look.  I [...]

iSquint Podcast – Episode 4 – ETC at LDI

In this, the fourth episode of the iSquint Podcast, I got a chance to sit down with Anne Valentino and David Lincecum for ETC, (Electronic Theatre Controls) at LDI in Orlando Florida. Anne and David explained how the Eos family of desks were developed and how they listened to the lighting community to design the [...]

Rumor Mill: Wybron to Update iSwatch iPhone App

We have heard through the lighting grape vein that Wybron is working on a new update for their popular iSwatch Gel Picker App for the iPhone. Wybron has been working with some of the gel manufacturers that are currently in the iSwatch app to provide a way for users to locate dealers near them based [...]

Strong to Introduce A New Fixture at LDI?

We just received an email from LSA, (Light & Sound America) that Strong Entertainment Lighting is preparing to announce a new something at LDI. We would have to assume that the product line will be called solutions given the logo with in the above image.  The logo also gives us an indication that this just [...]

Rumor Mill: Vari*Lite to Introduce a New VLX Series LED Fixture?

We have heard from some friends in the industry talking about Vari*Lite and their next step in the LED market. Not to long ago, Vari*Lite introduced the VLX, an LED wash fixture. What is interesting is that on Vari*Lites own website, they have it listed as the VLX Series. This could only mean one thing, [...]