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iSquint LDI 2010 T-Shirt Phrase Contest

It has been a request by you guys for the longest time, an iSquint t-shirt. LDI 2010 will be the r Read more

Vari-Lite Shipping New VL550 Wash & VL1100 ERS Fixtures

I got super excited when I saw this email hit the inbox, Vari-Lite shipping new fixtures?!? What did I miss?!  Turns out Vari-Lite re-tooled and configured the VL500 Wash and VL100 ERS fixtures with design enhancements and eco-friendly technologies and gave them updated part numbers.  Here is more from the official press release:
Philips Vari-Lite is [...]

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Elation Professional Announces Design Spot LED Mover

Elation Professional recently announced the arrival of another moving light to their Design Spot series of lights, the Deign Spot LED.  The Design Spot LED is an LED-powered version of Elation’s popular Design Spot 250 Pro DMX moving head.
At 48.5 lbs./22 kilograms, the Elation Design Spot LED weighs less than the original Design Spot 250 [...]

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Book Review: Automated Lighting, 2nd Edition By Richard Cadena

Back at USITT 2010 in Kansas City, I got a chance to catch up with the Electron Magician himself, Mr. Richard Cadena. I am always in awe when around Mr. Cadena.  Not only is he a wealth of knowledge on lighting, but the entire industry as well. During our talk, I mentioned that I would [...]

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GLP Introduces Volks|Light LED Moving Head

GLP or German Light Products has been steadily releasing new LED fixtures this year.  If the pace keeps up, they will have brought six new fixtures to the market by the end of the year.  This time around, GLP introduces their Volks|Light LED moving head. The Volks|Light uses 60 Luxeon Rebel high power LED’s with [...]

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City Theatrical Announces Vari-Lite VLX Accessories

City Theatrical just put out their March Newsletter with a bit of interesting news.  Looks like City Theatrical is starting to make accessories for Vari-Lite’s VLX LED moving Light. In the announcement of the Vari-Lite accessories, City details why and how they come up with lighting accessories for different types of lights.  A pretty interesting [...]

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Barco/High End Welcomes Intellaspot XT-1 at ProLight + Sound

Barco/High End Systems just announced their offerings at ProLight + Sound this morning. One of the new offerings form the company is the new Intellaspot XT-1.  They also announced a new hybrid switcher and mixer for video/ lighting controller, the SDI-DMX Mixer Pro. Here is more from the press release.
Two new product announcements round out [...]

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Robe Launching 11 New Products at ProLight + Sound

Robe Lighting is kicking of the year with 11 new products being launched next week at ProLight + Sound 2010 in Frankfurt Germany. Robe is expanding their ROBIN series of moving lights by adding 6 new fixture while also increasing their LED line up of fixtures by adding to the LEDForce series of products.
ColorBeam 2500E [...]

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Elation Focuses on Compact & Energy-Efficient Lights at ProLight + Sound

This year at ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt Germany, Elation Professional is focusing their product lineup on energy efficiency.  With the growing trend of LEDs and “Going Green”, Elation is showing off a couple of fixtures that not only are energy-efficient, but also pack a punch with some of the features and light output that [...]

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Spotrack Presents Stage Performer Tracking System

Have you ever tried to follow a performer or actor on stage with a moving light instead of a followspot? Yes, it can be done. Is it easy, maybe. But what if you were trying to follow someone that was moving around that stage fairly quick, like say Steven Tyler? Not the easiest [...]

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Martin Mac 401 Dual Video

I just saw a great product demo video of Martin Professional’s Mac 401 Dual LED fixture. @MainLight posted the link to the video via their twitter feed and wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to view it. What is so great about the video?  Well, don’t expect to learn much more about the [...]

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Elation Prepares to Announce “Revolutionary” Moving Light

The product announcements just keep rolling in, LDI must be right around the corner. Elation Lighting is preparing to announce a “revolutionary” spot/wash moving light this year at the LDI Show. Elation is calling it the Platinum Spot 5R. What you cannot tell from the picture is that the Platinum is the size of a [...]

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Martin LDI Special

Just in time for LDI, Martin Professional is offering two Brighter Bargin deals on not only fixtures, but also control devices. Lighting and Sound America (LSA) just sent out an email blast with the image below.
Looks like if you buy 4 of any Smart MAC, MAC 250 Entour, Mac 250 Krypton, MAC 250 Wash, MAC [...]

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