China - No sooner had the curtain been brought down on China's LED Show than the four-day GET Show 2013 opened for business at Poly World Trade Expo Center, Guangzhou. Most major lighting manufacturers attended, although Prolight+Sound Guangzhou 2013 was also taking place the following week.

Leading Chinese manufacturer, PR Lighting's booth was located in the middle of Hall 3, and due to its elegant and eye-catching display, remained extremely busy throughout the show. The hottest new items included the PR 5000 series, XLED 336, XLED 1037, XR 200/300 Beam, the newest LED Studio series and new LED Lasers. All were greeted enthusiastically by customers at the booth.

PR Lighting then invited both domestic and overseas customers to the company's dinner, for which there was an overwh

USA - A.C. Lighting Inc. will be showcasing a range of the latest entertainment technology innovations from a selection of the leading brands which it distributes in North America, including products from Chroma-Q, Jands, ArKaos, LedGo and Prolyte - at the 2013 USITT Stage Expo held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Showing exclusively at A.C. Lighting Inc.'s booth is Chroma-Q's popular Color Force range of RGBA LED fixtures.

Providing power across the spectrum, from deep cold blues to red hot lava looks, the Color Force range utilizes Chroma-Q's advanced ColorSure™ technology to give y

Sweden - Singer songwriter Petra Marklund, who also performs under the name 'September', has been touring the country's concert halls this spring with one of the most dynamic stage sets imaginable - fabricated largely from more than 3,000 SGM LED Balls (LB-100) ingeniously rigged as an overhead, interactive spatial canopy.

The design is the brainchild of top lighting designer Henrik Lundin, of Stockholm-based company Satellite Live.

With a quest to constantly provide different solutions to inspire his creativity, Lundin has bought into SGM's pioneering LED products immediately. Havi

Regional Support Plea - BECTU general secretary Gerry Morrissey has called on the West End to "give more support to regional counterparts", in a bid to prevent theatres closing as a result of cuts. The backstage union's head also called on local council funding for the arts to be a "statutory obligation rather than an optional extra". His plea comes as councils around the UK slash their arts budget, which is resulting in less funding for many regional theatres.

Earlier this month, Sheffield Theatres was hit with a £106,000 cut to its £529,000 grant from

UK - ETC's Eos family of lighting control systems is popular the world over. Now, ETC is adding even more gear to the family, by introducing the new Eos Titanium (Ti) control desk, along with two new accessories: the RPU3 (Eos Remote Processor Unit 3) and Net3 RVI3 (Remote Video Interface 3), and offering new Eos v2.0 software.

Ti takes the place of ETC's flagship Eos desk at the head of the product line, with new hardware and features that make designing and programming even easier. "We took the solid foundation of Eos and built on it to create Ti," says ETC Controls produc

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