Held at the International Centre, Telford, the event was designed to showcase the company's new 2009 built-in cooking range, with over 300 major appliances on display, along with many smaller items.
The event's producer and MD of Livenet, Peter Lindsey-Jones, was reportedly delighted with the brightness and clarity of the projected images. "The audience were so close to the four screens that initially we had concerns about the image quality, but these concerns proved to be completely unjustified," he said.
A to V fielded four of their six HD10K-M projectors, fitted with 2.6-4.1:1 zoom lenses. "We had been looking for some time to update our mid-range (10,000 ANSI lumens) units to a widescreen/HD format as we already have high end units in this format," said A to V director, Allan Hindley. "We had reviewed and demoed all the products on the market and concluded that the Christie units offered the best combination of features, image quality and cost effectiveness.
"We knew that we had the Bosch job coming up and given the feature set of the projectors, it was logical that this should be the first outing for the new units."
In Telford, the 9500 ANSI lumens HD devices were placed around the outside of a 16m diameter circular auditorium, mounted on wooden platforms, attached to Superlifts, from where they created a semi-octagonal image on four edge-butted screens (each measuring approximately 5.5m x 3.1m). These were suspended from a custom metal framework using high speed truss motors, which allowed the screens to be flown out at the end of each show. All trusswork and lighting was carried out by DBN Lighting, spearheaded by Nigel Walker, who was the event's technical co-ordinator.
(Jim Evans)
