Enttec, the Australian manufacturer whose Datagate was a nominee at the PLASA Show's Awards for Innovation this year, was also at LDI. The company's Nicolas Moreau reports that the response to Datagate has been good since PLASA. Sharing the company's stand at LDI was another Antipodean lighting innovator, Martin Searancke, who demonstrated his Light Factory PC-based lighting control software. His motivation in developing this system was a realization that most software on the market tended to cater for moving lights; he was also conscious, he explains, of other packages' poor use of 'screen real estate'. Light Factory, he says, is "a no-compromise approach of traditional dimmer control and fully featured moving light support". Introduced just one year ago, Light Factory is now in its third version and has established a respectable core of users in that time.
