UK - Based on its innovative technologies, Appotronics has developed a series of light source products for entertainment lighting applications. Utilising the company's proprietary brightness enhancement technology, Appotronics' LED light source is designed to "meet the demands of the industry in high brightness, accurate colour control and ultra-long lifetime".

"For ultra-high brightness lighting applications, Appotronics' patented Laser Phosphor technology is a perfect choice to replace UHP lamps with the same brightness and more than 20,000 hours lifetime.

Appotroni

UK - The Chroma-Q stand at PLASA 2012 (1-E8) will see the official worldwide launch of the new Studio Force Phosphor LED lighting range alongside the brand's other recent LED, control, data distribution and lighting accessory solutions, which are designed for a wide range of entertainment, broadcast and architectural applications.

Chroma-Q will also unveil a new-look corporate logo, brand identity and revamped website, underscoring their continuing transformation into one of the industry's leading innovators of LED lighting solutions.

A nominee for the 2012 PLASA Awards for Innovati

UK - Building on the ever-converging technologies of lighting and video, Blitz has seized the opportunity to greatly expand its offering to clients through a £320,000 investment in new lighting stock and the recruitment of a full- time lighting designer.

Blitz welcomed Simon Brockwell to its team at the beginning of August as a full-time lighting designer. He has a wealth of experience as a freelance engineer, having graduated from Rose Bruford. Brockwell is developing Blitz's lighting design and project management offering so it can offer a more bespoke service to both direct c

UK - Ambersphere Solutions has announced that Matt Cowles has joined the company as technical sales effective Monday 3 September.

Most recently he has been a business development manager for Stage Electrics, having previously built his knowledge as account manager in the live events division for the same company. Prior to that he was a product manager at Martin Professional.

"We are delighted to welcome Matt into his role as technical sales here at Ambersphere. This is a newly created role to ensure that as our business expands, we continue to provide excellent customer care an

UK - Meet The Parents is a new reality comedy show, where in each episode a poor unsuspecting guy has to try and last the whole night at his girlfriend's parent's house. What he doesn't know is that he is being recorded by 30 hidden cameras.

Martin Kempton designs the lighting show which includes MAC 500s, MAC 600s, MAC TW1s and Pixel Par 90s, supplied by Richard Martin Lighting (RML).

Meet The Parents is filmed for Objective Productions. The first episode is currently scheduled to go out on Wednesday 12 September at 10pm on E4.

(Jim Evans)

South Africa - This year 20,000 people gathered for the Oppikoppi Sweet Thing Festival held from 9 to 11 August 2012 on the Oppikoppi Farm near the mining town of Northam in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. For the ninth consecutive year, rental company Stage Effects were one of the technical suppliers at the music festival, lighting up six of the seven stages. Avolites controlled all six stages and a grandMA was used for two international acts.

The very first Oppikoppi was held in 1994 and has become a tradition ever since. Thousands camp out in the bush and enjoy an enormous line

UK - Zero 88 will be celebrating their 40th anniversary at this year's PLASA show.

There will be celebrations on the Copper Controls stand 1-E38 with cakes and bubbly from 3pm onwards on both Monday and Tuesday afternoons during the show.

PLASA also sees the culmination of the 'Me and My Zero 88' photo competition, run as part of the 40 year celebrations. It has been a great success with many interesting and exciting images submitted. The lucky winner of an ORB XF lighting console will be announced during the show. There will also be a large photo wall of some of the Zero 88 team's

UK - Prism Projection is expanding its RevEAL line of LED products with the debut of three new luminaires - Profile Jr., Studio.3 Fresnel, and Studio.UV Fresnel. With its largest product launch to date, Prism will be debuting the fixtures in Europe at both the PLASA 2012 show in London as well as at IBC 2012 in Amsterdam.

Prism Projection will be on Stand 2-P16 in the White Light Zone at PLASA 2012. For the IBC show, Prism will be on stand 9.C15 in Hall 9 along with Mac Tech LED.

The RevEAL Profile Jr. is a new compact LED profile spot that offers the strengths of Prism's award-winn

UK - Professional lighting sales company Lightfactor's main focus at PLASA 2012 will be key new products offered by its dynamic array of premium distribution partners. Some of the most popular existing products will also be highlighted.

From VXCO is the latest version of their DMX Creator PC lighting control software. Everything is visually based for easy access and intuitive use, and the new stand-alone software enables the control of 1024 channels and multi sequences that can also be recalled/cued via RS 232, DMX in/out and MIDI. Cues can also be executed remotely and wirelessly via

Hong Kong - In terms of efficiency, LED lights are undoubtedly more efficient than Tungsten-Halogen lights, but in terms of performances - colour rendering, colour consistency) Tungsten-Halogen lights are better. LED light is successfully and widely used in architectural applications, but they have more restricted applications in theatre and TV installation.

LDR's Besio Fabiano and Macostar's Mr. Derek Chow feel that they have successfully answered the question of whether LED and TH lamp sources can co-exist, by combining conventional TH lamps and state-of-the-art LED technology co-de

UK - Jands is set to release a new console at PLASA 2012. The Stage CL console has been designed specifically for LED fixtures and provides 12 direct fixture control channels, 'powerful yet simple storing and a touch-screen interface, all packaged in compact and elegant chassis you can carry in one hand.'

CEO Paul Mulholland comments: "LED fixtures are rapidly becoming popular as a cost-effective and flexible lighting solution, but until now there hasn't been a console that gives you simple direct control of their colour and intensity. We saw that there was a whole group of peopl

UK - Product training is an integral part of the 'total support' Ambersphere Solutions offers customers. And if proof were needed, then come along to the Ambersphere stand (1-E36) at PLASA 2012 next week to pick up your free training voucher for the highly successful MA onPC command wing, says the company.

The voucher will entitle the holder to a one-day introduction training course, courtesy of Ambersphere and usually valued at £88 plus VAT.

This special offer is for a limited time only, and exclusively available to visitors to the Ambersphere stand at the PLASA Show. Courses

UK - Clay Paky is one of the main sponsors of PLASA 2012. The Clay Paky stand (1-E36 as usual), is facing the 'main square' in the very heart of the exhibition floor, where the Innovation Gallery is placed. This year the stand will be managed by Ambersphere Solutions, the exclusive distributor in the UK for the Clay Paky and MA Lighting ranges of products.

Located on the back of the main stand, the demo-area provides a suitable environment for an effective presentation of Clay Paky products. Access to this area is open to all visitors that, every hour, will be able to attend a 20 minu

UK - Jands has created a console designed specifically for LED fixtures. The Stage CL provides 12 direct fixture control channels, powerful yet simple storing and a touch-screen interface, all packaged in compact and elegant chassis you can carry in one hand.

CEO Paul Mulholland said, "LED fixtures are rapidly becoming popular as a cost-effective and flexible lighting solution, but until now there hasn't been a console that gives you simple direct control of their colour and intensity. We saw that there was a whole group of people who would benefit hugely from the ability to harn

UK - CAST is pulling out all the stops for PLASA 2012 with the debut of not one, but four new products, plus an educational seminar. PLASA will be held at Earls Court in London, 9-12 September and CAST will be exhibiting in Stand 1-E27.

The latest wysiwyg release, R29, has so many new features and improvements, your job instantly becomes more proficient, more professional and more profitable, says the company. New features in R29 include the ability to touch select fixtures and manipulate in Shaded View, create camera flies in 6D, a new six degrees of freedom camera system, drawing pu

UK - Cogent Lighting is showing a selection of its current LED solutions and products on the stand of the Cooper Controls Group at the PLASA exhibition in Earl's Court, London. (Hall 1, booth E38).

Highlighted are the latest white light fixtures, utilising the state-of-the-art high powered LED technologies and offering 0 -100% dimming. These are ideal for theatre and performance lighting applications needing ultra smooth dimming.

The series encompasses a whole range of down-lighters from 3 to 46 Watts - all available in cold white, warm white and natural white (4000K) variants, comp

UK - High End Systems' new SolaSpot LED automated luminaire is being introduced on the AC Entertainment booth (Hall 1, Stand E10) at the 2012 PLASA Exhibition. AC Entertainment is the exclusive UK and Irish distributor for the full range of lighting products manufactured by High End Systems, a Barco company.

Lightweight and compact yet extremely punchy, the 550 watt SolaSpot LED is the highest performance LED spot in its class. The luminaire weighs only 24.5 kg but produces a high fixture output of 6,000 lumens and offers an extremely even beam field. SolaSpot LED's fixed color wheel

UK - Spotlight is introducing three products in the new Green Line - FresneLED250 Tunable White, ProfiLED 200 and ProfiLED 250 RGBW.

On display in T H5, hall 1 will be three innovative LED products of the Green Line, luminaires that are characterised both by high optical performances and by the real contribution in terms of energy saving, achieved thanks to a specific use of the LED and to the application of 'clean technologies' in the luminaires' production.

This wide family, which includes Fresnel, PC and Profile spots of the series Mini, MIDI and Sintesi, designed both for shop w

UK - The PLASA Awards for Innovation, sponsored by AED Rent and Lighting&Sound, were presented at the PLASA Show in London yesterday evening, along with the announcement of the prestigious Gottelier Award.

During the show's opening two days, 47 products were judged 'live' in front of a crowd of show visitors and camera crew by an independent panel of expert judges who toured the show floor to view each product presentation.

John Meyer of iconic pro audio brand Meyer Sound was honoured with this year's Gottelier Award in recognition of his life as one of the pioneers of the mo

UK - ETC's stand at PLASA 2012 this year is better than ever, the company reports, with a range of new and updated products on demonstration.

ETC introduced the new Source Four Dimmer on the stand. The Source Four Dimmer reduces cabling and energy demands on buildings while increasing Source Four fixture brightness and efficiency.

By regulating output to support 115V HPL lamps, the Source Four Dimmer supercharges a 230V Source Four luminaire - allowing a Source Four ellipsoidal profile on 230V line voltage to use a 115V lamp to outperform a typical 1200W condenser profile.

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World - City Theatrical has announced that Philips Color Kinetics will now offer City Theatrical's full line of SHoW DMX Neo wireless control solutions worldwide. This new distribution relationship makes it easy for Philips Color Kinetics customers to specify a full range of wireless DMX equipment for their entertainment and architectural installations.

SHoW DMX products can be found on nearly every Broadway and West End show and tour and have also been used on major music tours and events including the U2 360 Degree tour and the London Olympics. SHoW DMX products have also been used

UK - LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, has demonstrated emitters and LED modules that enable the size of entertainment lighting products to be reduced significantly, on stand 2-S11 at the PLASA 2012 exhibition.

The company's LuxiGen platform of white and multi-colour compact emitters generate the high luminous flux density demanded in entertainment lighting, particularly for spot beams, distance lighting effects and in dynamic lighting scenarios. Patented thermal management technology allows the LED die to be driven to higher current levels and in a denser

UK - Chauvet Professional COLORdash Batten Tri linear wash lights enliven the stage of the Royal Opera House in London's Convent Garden. Additionally used for corporate events, the 12 compact-sized fixtures supplement the existing stock and provide flexible lighting options.

"We bought the units for two reasons," said Paul Hornsby, lighting systems manager for Royal Opera House, "[for] a compact light source [when] lighting up pieces of set where we needed a small-sized, bright, low-heat unit and for events-small room meetings to lighting the windows of the Paul Hamlyn

UK - The Olympic Torch donated by Czech moving light manufacturer Robe lighting's CEO Josef Valchar, was auctioned at PLASA 2012 and won for £6,200 by leading European AV rental company, AED Rent.

The proceeds are going to entertainment technology industry charity, Light Relief.

The auction was held directly after PLASA's 2012 Awards for Innovation - one of which was won by Robe's Robin DLF Wash LED fresnel moving light - and followed some animated bidding, all co-ordinated by professional auctioneer Jonathan Humbert, brought in by Robe for the occasion.

The torch was collec

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