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PRG Shows off Their Moves With the Commander

I am a lighting geek/nerd by nature, but love all technical aspects of our business.  Watching a moving light spin and whorl is one thing, but to see the truss it is attached to along with video walls move in harmony, now that is amazing stuff! I will not pretend to know the motion control [...]

The Martin Booth at LDI 2010 & Programmer Matthias Hinrichs

If you attended LDI 2010, you had to stop by or at least heard the Martin booth from any where on the trade show floor.  Every hour, the Martin booth came alive and put on a three minute show demonstrating what their fixtures can do.  I of course shot a quick video of the entire [...]

Strong Entertainment Shows of the Neeva LED Profile Fixture

Couple of weeks before LDI, I mentioned something about the latest LED product from Strong Entertainment, the Neeva.  This is one of the things that I was dieing to see at LDI and I was some what impressed. What is neat about the Neeva is that it is the same size as our beloved tungsten [...]

NuDelta Digital Unveils The LogiCue Cue System

The LogiCue System from NuDelta Digital is a theatrical cue light system that is easy to set up and operate.  The LogiCue System is built around the needs and desires of stage managers and technicians.  The system uses standard microphone cable for its connections.  The controller is a compact device with tactile buttons and indicator [...]

Barco Unveils DLP Cinema Enhanced 4K Projector

The introduction of the new Barco DP4K-32B doesn’t come as a surprise. Last month, Barco already held a live demonstration of a pre-launch version of its new DLP Cinema® Enhanced 4K projector during a visit to the company by Cinemark. This week, the official unveiling took place at a special red carpet event with live [...]

#LDI2010: Don’t Have An iPhone – LDIMobile Still Has You Covered

All of us iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch owners should feel a little special.  Live Design and LDI created the LDIMobie app.  The app is designed to help navigate us through the show and keep track of our schedule.  But what about our friends that don’t have an iOS device? Live Design and LDI have you Android, Palm [...]

LDI2010: More Learning Available at PRG Institute

If you are heading to Las Vegas next month for LDI, why not take FULL advantage of your time there?  Production Resource Group, (PRG) is offering  classes on their products.  Here are the details on the classes being offered at PRG Institute. PRG is pleased to offer introductory training on our proprietary products including Mbox [...]

Book: Set Lighting Technician’s Handbook, 4th Edition On Sale

Last month, Focal Press Announced the arrival of a new lighting book geared towards the Film and Video market, Set Lighting Technician’s Handbook, 4th Edition by Harry C. Box. In this, the fourth  edition, Mr. Box expands on some of the latest technologies and products available to the industry for lighting a set. New to [...]

Sunday YouTube Videos

Only one video this week and it is an AWESOME one.  A good friend and fellow designer Alfonzo Torrealba, (@alfonzolighting) sent me this video.  Is this really the future of DJ’ing?  Why can’t we have something like this in lighting?  I don’t care about being able to see through it, but multi-touch, come on, how [...]

City Theatrical Announces PDS-750 TRX Power/Date Supply for CK LED Fixtures

City Theatrical is up to it again, making all kinds of crazy awesome wireless products. The latest one is the PDS-750 TRX Power/Data Supply for Color Kinetics LED fixtures.  Not only does the PDS-750 offer Streaming ACN, Art-Net and KI Net protocols, but also wireless DMX via their popular SHoW DMX.  To make the PDS [...]

Philips Strand Leko Lite… The Strand SL is Reborn?

Take a look at Philips Strand latest fixture, the Leko Lite.  No, no, I mean it, take a REALLY close look at it.  Remind you of a fixture that recently went away? Maybe the Strand SL is a phoenix, it died and has been reborn as the Leko Lite, they do share a bunch of [...]

Lamps Have a Label, Why Not Fixtures Too

Early this morning, @PLASA posted an invitation of sorts to lighting manufacturers to meet sometime during September.  I would have to assume that the meeting would happen around or during the PLASA show in London as many or most manufacturers will be in town for the show. The thing that caught my attention was the [...]