Martin Professional Introduces New DMX Splitters
Martin Professional offers two new economical DMX splitters for proper data transmission and protection of DMX controllers and devices. The DMX 5.3 Splitter and RDM 5.5 Splitter are useful in maintaining proper data over long runs or several runs of DMX signal with the RDM 5.5 Splitter also capable of handling RDM data. The Martin [...]
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Review: The TRX Series, from City Theatrical and Philips Color Kinetics
Not long ago, Philips Color Kinetics introduced the next generation of Color Blast’s: The TRX Series. Adding 2 new colors to the standard regimen of Red, Green, and Blue, these new Color Blasts called for a more intelligent power supply. Providing this new backbone is City Theatrical and the new PDS-750 TRX Power and Data [...]
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LSC Lighting Announces NEXUS Ethernet/DMX Converters
The NEXUS range is the latest addition to LSC’s Data Distribution products and offers conversion between DMX512 signals and Ethernet and currently supports both the Art-Net and Streaming ACN (SACN) protocols. NEXUS provides the ability to convert between the two most popular Ethernet protocols namely Art-Net and Streaming ACN (SACN) and DMX512. Going further than [...]
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LumenRadio Available in North America AGAIN Through TMB
TMB and LumenRadio announced today the immediate availability across North America of the entire range of CRMX wireless lighting control products. LumenRadio’s proprietary CRMX products are available in a variety of form factors and feature levels to meet the requirements of the entertainment and architectural lighting markets alike. All products provide Lumen’s proprietary automated cognitive [...]
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#LDI2010 – Enttec Datagate Mk2
Datagate Mk2 is a pretty sweet bit of hardware. It allows you take ANYTHING in and spit ANYTHING out. On the front of the box is a pretty simple panel for making adjustments to the unit like setting an IP address or choosing a profile. The screen can display the status of the unit. The [...]
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#LDI2010 – Goddard Design RDM-Net
Goddard Design Co. has come up with a solution for distributing RDM beyond a single node. They call it RDM-Net. It’s a tiny little thing that can fit in the palm of my hand, but it allows RDM (by extension of DMX, of course) input anywhere in the path of a data line without the [...]
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Welcome Contributing Writer – Eric Boxer
I’m not gonna lie, this is pretty sweet. Not only do I get to go to the coolest trade show in the world (I mean, it’s the trade show that showcases everything that other trade shows use to showcase and highlight their stuff), but I get to help those who can’t make it experience it. [...]
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Martin Announces New USB DMX Dongle, USB Duo DMX
When ever Martin Announces or releases a new product, it seems like it comes in pairs or a whole bunch at once. Following the announcement of the Martin One-Key, Martin Professional announces a new USB DMX device called Martin USB DUO DMX. This new USB device carries two XLR 5 pins and the latest DMX [...]
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Martin Announces Martin One-Key
Martin One-Key is a future-proof concept to distribute software licenses without the inconvenience of storing licenses in DMX hardware as we’ve been used to for the last 20 years. From now on, all Martin Professional PC-based applications will share the same protection method. Martin One-Key is a simple USB dongle that can store one or [...]
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E:Cue Introduces Video Micro Converter, (VMC)
E:cue Lighting recently announced the release of a new product, the VMC or Video Micro Converter. The Video Micro Converter (VMC) is a compact device used to convert a DVI signal to DMX or e:pix*, for LED control of large media screens. Specially designed to easily output video content on LED media installations, one VMC [...]
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Goddard Design Announces New DMX Tester – MiniDMXter4
Goddard Design, the makers of the industry popular DMX testing device, the DMXter, has just announced a new DMX testing device, the MiniDMXter4. Very similar to the old Lil’DMXter, the MiniDMXter4 fits in the palm of your hand and has additional features not found in the Lil’DMXter such as RDM management functions. More from the [...]
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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 [...]
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