ETC Releases Eos Family Software Update 1.9.6 – Critical Update From 1.9.5
Say What, I just updated my desk to Eos Family Software 1.9.5 just last week! It happens from time to time, software goes out and has a glitch, but, ETC’s awesome users, programmers and tech services gurus caught the bugs. The offical statement about the update from ETC’s release notes: The purpose of this release [...]
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ETC Announces Eos Family Software Update – v1.9.5
This morning ETC announced the long anticipated, and until 2.0 comes out, most significant update to the Eos family of consoles: software version 1.9.5. The biggest update included in v1.9.5 is the addition of the Virtual Media Server. The VMS allows the creation of grids of fixture, to which static and animated images can be [...]
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ETC Release v3.0.0 for SmartFade Line Up of Consoles
ETC recently released a software update for the “entry” level series of desk, the SmartFade family, version 3.0.0. The update brings some new features for both the SmartFade and the SmartFade ML desk. As with most software updates, software bugs are sent to the big bug house in the sky as well. ETC has also [...]
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#LDI2010: Novella Smith Shows Off the ETC Selador Pearl LED Fixture
I love Novella Smith. She has such a love for lighting and color! It really shows when she is talking about her products, the Selador series of LED products from ETC. Every time I see Novella, she has a HUGE smile on and can not wait to talk about color. Her passion behind it really [...]
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ETC Releases iRFR Preview iPhone/iPad App
Check it out, ETC has a NEW iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch app, the iRFR Preview App! The Preview iRFR application for the Eos family of products – Eos, Ion and Element – provides a view-only Cue List display of the active cue list. Ideal for lighting designers and stage managers who need to only see current and [...]
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ETC to Preview Source Four HID Exterior Fixture at #LDI2010
The ETC Source Four fixture family is welcoming a highly-anticipated new member, the HID-lamp-powered Source Four exterior fixture, with 15° to 30° zoom optics in an IP65-rated enclosure for all-weather use. ETC’s new outdoor fixture projects logos or subtle texture with gobo patterns, and it shutter-cuts to highlight architectural detail and frame building features without [...]
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ETC Adds to the Selador Series of LEDs: The Pearl
Where you at PLASA this year? If you stopped by the ETC booth, you should have seen their latest Selador LED product, the Pearl. ETC has added a white mixing unit to their popular Selador Series of LED products to help round out their offerings. The Pearl takes advantage of the best traits of the [...]
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ETC Has HUGE News For PLASA 2010
PLASA attendees will be the first to see the latest in Source Four® technology. The hugely popular family of luminaires is welcoming a new, long-awaited member – the Source Four HID Zoom eX – ETC’s 15° to 30° zoom optics in an IP65-rated enclosure for outdoor use. Solid, user-friendly industrial design coupled with the 12,000-hour [...]
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Rumor Mill: ETC to Release TWO New Consoles in 2011
Rumors hints of a new console from ETC, (Electronic Theatre Controls) have been dropped a couple of times starting late 2009 at LDI when I intereviewed Anne Valentino about the future of controls. Not much was said other then expect something sometime. Pretty vague if you ask me. Fast forward five months to March 2010 at USITT [...]
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ETC Updates iRFR iPhone App to v1.1.33 with iPad Support
Mid last week, ETC’s, (Electronic Theatre Controls), iRFR iPhone App was approved through the Apple iTunes App store for release of version 1.1.33. The most significant change from pervious versions of the iRFR app is the support to run the app natively on the iPad. ETC has taken full use of the larger screen and added more [...]
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Behind the Design of ETC’s Town Square
We have all heard the legend of Town Square in ETC’s Middleton Wisconsin Headquarters. Only a chosen few very get to see it. Well, actually, anyone can come to visit and see town square, you just have to make it to Middleton. After checking out the video of ETC’s latest YouTube star, Anne Valentino talking [...]
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Fred Foster and the History of ETC Consoles at USITT
The history lessons just don’t stop when you are on a roll! During USITT in Kansas City, Fred Foster, CEO of Electronic Theatre Controls happen to be wondering around the 50 years of Lighting Display by the USITT Lighting Commission. Mr. Foster was kind enough to take some time out and walk us through a [...]
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