Free Floor Pass To LDI

The LDI Show is sneaking up on us!  There are only 160 days until the show opens up at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando Florida on November 16, 2009.  Be sure to sign up now for your FREE floor pass, (a $70 dollar value), to attend the show and to see all the [...]

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USITT09 Photo Gallery Updated

Close of another day of setup, meetings, and catching up with friends at USITT in Cincinnati.  Only one more day till USITT Stage Expo opens at 9:30am.  Things are shaping up and looking good on the show floor.  We have only a few photos to add to the USITT Photo Gallery today. Be sure to [...]

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Creative Stage Lighting Named NA Distributor

In a couple of Press Releases today, Creative Stage Lighting has been named the North American Distributor for Compulite and JB-Lighting.  This comes on the dawn of USITT in Cincinnati this week. Compulite Compulite products, including the Vector series of lighting consoles, will be available to Creative Stage Lighting’s Dealer Network. Vector Consoles are designed [...]

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Won’t Be St. Patrick’s Day Without a Leprecon

What kind of St. Patrick’s Day would it be without a leprecon making an appearance? Leprecon Lighting is set to announce an new line of lighting console at USITT this week in Cincinnati called the LPC-48V.  The new series of consoles is aimed at systems that run mainly conventionals and LEDs with fader handles. The [...]

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USITT Starts Next Week – We Have You Covered

Next week brings another trade show and conference, United State Institute for Technical Theatre (USITT) Conference and Stage Expo in Cincinnati Ohio at the Duke Energy Convention Center. iSquint.net will be covering the Stage Expo’s floor live everyday for our readers. For those attending the Conference and stage Expo, we have put together help listing [...]

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SETC Comes To A Close

All good things must finialy come to an end. This past week at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), we saw and heard some pretty amazing things, not only on the show floor, but through out the conference. To recap the week: The rumor that Vari-Lite is poised to announce an LED moving light were confirmed [...]

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Outside the Box, 25 Design-Tech Strategies Publication

While walking the show floor here at SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference), we noticed that SETC had a booth selling shirts to help support the organization and the endowment. While contemplating which shirt to purchase to help support SETC, we noticed a publication that SETC put together called Outside The Box: 25 Design-Tech Strategies to Save [...]

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Rumor CONFIRMED: Vari-Lite VLX LED Moving Light

While visiting the Vari-Lite booth here at SETC, we noticed an interesting banner in the booth.  Vari-lite has a blown up ad of their new VLX LED moving light that we hinted about a month ago.  Out contact says that this ad will be running in the March issue of Live Design. What is interesting [...]

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SETC Starts Tomorrow

Tomorrow starts the Southeaster Theatre Conference in Birmingham, AL.  iSquint is on location covering daily events on the trade show floor, meeting and workshops bringing you the latest news with in the lighting industry.  We have already started to talk to some of the manufacturers exhibiting at the show and they have some great new [...]

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New ETC Console at USITT CONFIRMED

We recieved a message from the lions outh today. ETC, as expected, is getting ready to launch the long rumored new lighting console to take place of the ever loved express console. The message from ETC outlines the going on’s with ETC at USITT in March. Premiering at USITT: New ETC lighting-control console…. Be the [...]

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Rumor Mill: ETC RFU, Meet iPhone

We are not going to say much about this one as we don’t know much of anything about it!  From our spy station located in Madsion WI, we heard over our hidden mic network deep within the walls of ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls) the mention of RFU (Remote Focus Unit) and iPhone in that same [...]

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ETC Offers VIP Pass Codes for USITT & NAB

The good folks over at Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) have sent us a note about some of the up coming trades that they will be attending. ETC passed along VIP Pass Codes for the USITT (United States Institute for Technical Theatre) and the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) shows. USITT take place in Cincinnati Ohio [...]

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