#LDI2010 Preview: PIXLED Perfect Curves with F-6 LED Display

#LDI2010 Preview: PIXLED Perfect Curves with F-6 LED Display

The image above says it all doesn’t it?  Remember hearing about the PIXLED new F-6 a couple of weeks ago?  It is a new flexible LED display the is ultra lightweight, and flexible in EVERY direction all at just 6mm. Make sure to stop by the PIXLED stand, 2540 and check out the F-6 LED [...]

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Pixled Launches F-37L Flexiable Mesh LED Video Display

Pixled Launches F-37L Flexiable Mesh LED Video Display

At InfoComm, in Las Vegas June 9-11, be sure to stop by the Pixled booth, #N2675 in the Digital Signage Pavilion in the North Hall. In addition to Pixled’s established range of low weight LED video technology, the company will be launching it’s innovative F-37L, a 37mm flexible mesh LED video display designed for both [...]

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Behind the Design of ETC’s Town Square

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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E:Cue Introduces Video Micro Converter, (VMC)

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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Video From #ProLight + Sound 2010 #PLS2010

Video From #ProLight + Sound 2010 #PLS2010

My good friend Peter Kirkup is on the ground in Frankfurt Germany working the show for his company, Zero 88.  Peter put together another one of his trade show videos.  It seems like PLS is all about the LASERs just like LDI 2009 was!  Thanks Peter for sharing the video!

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Rumor Mill: Something up Barco’s Sleeves for ProLight + Sound

Rumor Mill: Something up Barco’s Sleeves for ProLight + Sound

Like I said earlier, ProLight + Sound is just around the bend and all the exhibitors are leaking like a sieve.  Over the weekend I heard from a very reliable source deep with in the Barco family that Barco too has a number of new products to announce and show off at ProLight + Sound [...]

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XL Video and the Super Bowl XLIV Halftime Show

XL Video and the Super Bowl XLIV Halftime Show

XL Video just put out a Press Release with more detailed information about how the Super Bowl XLIV Halftime Show came together. While I normally do not post about installations and events, this one is hard to pass up.  If you watched the Halftime show this year and are into lighting and are like me, [...]

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ETC Introduces SmartBar 2

ETC Introduces SmartBar 2

Back during LDI 2009, ETC, (Electronic Theatre Controls) demonstrated their update to the SmartBar series of portable dimmers, the SmartBar 2.  I don’t know how I missed it at the show, but I did. No worries though, more from ETC on the SmartBar 2. The SmartBar 2 provides an integrated dimming and fixture-mounting solution for [...]

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ConsoleCocktails Releases Cocktail #3 – Squintin’ at the grandMA2

ConsoleCocktails Releases Cocktail #3 – Squintin’ at the grandMA2

During LDI 2009, I got a chance to visit one of the busiest rooms during the week long conference and show at the Orlando Convention Center, The grandMA2 Demo and Training room. I sat down and did an interview with Joe Joe Cabrera ][ and Brian Dowd from ACT Lighting for a future episode of [...]

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A Look Around LDI 2009

A Look Around LDI 2009

I took just a little bit of video this year at the LDI show in Orlando Florida. Some of it was taken just for this, a quick look at some of the different things on the show floor. Of course there is a couple of things I missed, but then there are some things that [...]

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Video: StageJunk’s Ratchet Ultimate Focus Tool

Video: StageJunk’s Ratchet Ultimate Focus Tool

While down in Orlando, StageJunk announced the release of their latest Ultimate Tool, the Ratchet Ultimate Focus Tool.The new tool looks and feels just like the previous tool, the Ultimate Focus Tool, with one exception, the Ratchet. StageJunk has taken the all aluminum tool and re-engineered the wrench portion of the tool to incorporate a [...]

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Quick View of the Zero88 ORB Desk

Quick View of the Zero88 ORB Desk

I had a chance to stop by the Cooper Controls booth at the LDI booth and talk with Grant Bales-Smith, the Sales Manager for Zero88.  Grant gave me a quick overview of their latest lighting desk, the ORB consoles. The 2048 DMX control channels offered by the Orb allows users to control multiple LED fittings, [...]

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