The Latest From Philips at LDI 2010

The Latest From Philips at LDI 2010

If you were at LDI this year, you had to have noticed the Philips booth.  It was kind of hard to miss it.  Philips was dead smack in the middle of the floor with a huge open layout with an awesome circle truss FILLED with all of their latest LED products from all of their [...]

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Philips Strand Leko Lite… The Strand SL is Reborn?

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 [...]

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Philips Selecon PL 1 LED

Philips Selecon PL 1 LED

Philips Selecon has a new Architectural LED fixture available, the PL 1. It uses high output and fully homogenized RGBW LEDs with a variable beam from 14-50 degrees. The PL 1 makes perfect sense for museums and other architectural installations where UV light may cause problems.  The PL 1 produces no ultra-violet (wavelengths of less [...]

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Sneak Peak at Philips/Selecon PL-3 LED Fresnel

Sneak Peak at Philips/Selecon PL-3 LED Fresnel

When you reach the Broadway level of being a lighting designer, you can pretty much get what ever you want. I am not talking about fame and fourtune but new fixtures and technologies. Such as the case for Don Holder at the Broadway Lighting Master Classes this year. Mr. Holder put on a great session [...]

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Strand Selecon Introduce SPX Fixed Beam Fixtures

Strand Selecon Introduce SPX Fixed Beam Fixtures

Strand Selecon recently announced the arrival of the SPX Fixed Beam fixtures. The goal of the SPX series of fixtures is to help round out the entire line of Strand Selecon fixture range including the Pacific and Acclaim series of lights. The SPX Series of fixtures use 220-240v lamps, the 600w GKV, the 600w GLB [...]

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

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 [...]

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Selecon to Join Philips Entertainment Lighting Group

Selecon Lighting of New Zealand has decided to sell the company to Philips to become part of the Philips Global Entertainment Lighting Group.  Selecon will be joining such companies as Vari-Lite, Strand Lighting and Color Kinetics. Selecon will continue to operate as normal with no changes made to management. To read more about the press [...]

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USITT Conference & Stage Expo Begins!

Today is the start of the USITT 2009 Conference and Stage Expo in Cincinnati, Ohio.  The doors have opened to the Stage Expo and the show floor is filling up nicely. Throughout the day we will be updating events and products announced at the show live, right here on iSquint.net. If you are attending the [...]

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iSquint Poster At SETC

We have been receiving a couple of request for the iSquint poster that we had made and displayed at SETC this past week.  If you attended the show, you may have seen our poster hanging around the show floor and around the hotel.  We have had so many request for a copy of the poster [...]

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Product Announcement: Selecon SDP Fixture

Selecon Lighting, those Kiwies from the southern hemisphere, New Zealand, are poised to announce the release of a new architectural lighting fixture, the Selecon Display Profile. The fixture is designed for track lighting systems in architectural and museum lighting. The Selecon Display Profile, or SDP delivers 3-4 times the light output of the Aureol BeamShaper, [...]

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