News

Blackmore heads product development at Soundcraft

Garry Blackmore joins Soundcraft Studer from Xerox

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Soundcraft Studer has recruited Garry Blackmore, previously programmes manager at Xerox, to spearhead a wave of new product developments as part of its rapid growth strategy.

Blackmore has a background in research and development, having worked on developing Xerox's multifunction systems, and has a BSc in computer science.

"Garry joins us at a time when we are turning a performance corner, said head of Harman's mixer business Andy Trott. "We have delivered the first two phases of our growth strategy and now aim to accelerate projects even faster. With Garry's skills and experience I am confident we'll continue taking market share and providing our customers with even more irresistible products."

BIackmore adds: "I hope to use my experience to help deve

Show Tex has published its environmental policy statement

ShowTex unveils ecologically friendly curtains

Details: 14 March 2016

Belgium - ShowTex has announced a range of ecological velvet theatre curtains as part of its environmental policy plan.

The Shakespeare and Molière flame retardant cotton velours developed by ShowTex are the first in the industry to be awarded OEKO-TEX Standard 100 certification.

For almost 20 years, the OEKO-TEX Standard 100 has been acknowledged as a comprehensive and verifiable method for ensuring that textile products and the supply chains that create them do not use hazardous chemicals such as pesticides, carcinogenic dye stuffs, heavy metals, or other concerning substances th

Duncan Riley, managing director of DWR Distribution, South Africa.

Philips appoints DWR for Strand and Selecon in South Africa

Details: 14 March 2016

The Netherlands / South Africa - Philips Entertainment Lighting (PEL) has appointed DWR Distribution as the exclusive distributor in South Africa for its Selecon and Strand brands. DWR Distribution is already the exclusive distributor in the region for another PEL-owned brand, Vari-Lite.

Michael Goldberg, sales director for PEL Europe, says: "Now that the brands of Selecon, Strand and Vari-Lite are all under the Philips Entertainment Lighting umbrella, it's a logical step to offer DWR Distribution exclusive distribution for all the Philips Entertainment Lighting brands. DWR has v

TV One will be demonstrating its range of 3D processing capabilities at ISE 2011

3D Processing with TV One at ISE 2011

Details: 14 March 2016

The Netherlands - TV One will be demonstrating its range of 3D processing capabilities at the ISE 2011 exhibition being held in Amsterdam in February.

3D processing will be shown throughout the Exhibition on the TV One Stand with dynamic demonstrations of CORIO products being fed live video from two standard 2D 1080p cameras sources. These two inputs will be processed within the TV One unit to produce a single 3D image of live video which will be output to a 3D monitor.

The ability to insert picture-in-picture windows of 2D images such

Session drummer Karl Brazil used HK Audio monitors

HK and Lab.gruppen monitor Feeder's tour

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - John Hornby Skewes & Co, UK and Eire trade distributors of HK Audio products and Lab.gruppen products, reports that Feeder is using HK Audio and Lab.gruppen products on live dates around the world. The year 2010 marked the release of the band's seventhth album, Renegades, and saw the band embark on a sell-out international tour.

At the Leeds Metropolitan University show, the band used a pair of HK Audio CT115 Contour Series monitors which had been bi-amped off two channels of a Lab.gruppen FP+10000Q and Channel 1 of an HK Audio DSM2060 speaker management processor.

Takin

News

Latest Issue. . .