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Capitol House Productions managed the production for the seminar area, which featured the latest fashion in hairdressing, cutting and colouring techniques, including a simultaneous seven hairstyle tutorial from the Toni & Guy Artistic Team.

The audience of over 1,000 people watched the action on two 103" Panasonic Plasmas, sourced on screenlifters from PSCo and built into a set, flanking the hairdressers on stage. Once the hairdressers in each seminar had finished their cuts, a fashion show of the model's haircuts would complete the effect and give the styles instant wearability.

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Australia - Australian Idol, now in its eighth year is broadcast nationally and has enjoyed great success over the years. However, with such a well-publicised and popular format there is always pressure to improve on the previous year's production. Lighting designer Francesco Calvi of Calvi Lighting Designs, explains:

"What started out as a light show with a central screen on the first series of Australian Idol has now evolved into a 'big' light show involving several video screens accessed by media servers all of which are linked to the lighting console.

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UK / USA - Christie will debut the Solaria series, at ShowEast with the launch of the Christie CP2220 digital cinema projector. The projector features Texas Instruments' (TI) (NYSE: TXN) next generation DLP Cinema technology and an optional integrated 2K/4K media block. Christie's 4K digital cinema projectors will display 4096 x 2160 pixels of resolution. While maintaining support for 2K external servers, these new models allow exhibitors to easily project 2K or 4K content, giving them the widest choice in digital cinema options. The Christie CP2220 will be on display with a Dore

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Kenya - The Gearhouse South Africa Group of companies supplied rigging, lighting, audio, LED screens and power distribution for the 2009 MTV African Music Awards, staged at the Kasarani Gymnasium at the Moi International Sports Centre, Nairobi, Kenya. The project entailed air freighting 55,000 Kgs of equipment from South Africa.

The Gearhouse crew was led by Bill Lawford who collaborated closely with Simon Roche, logistics manager from production company VWV, together with an international production team primarily from the UK, including lighting designer/director Gurdip Mahal, moving

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Israel - Compulite has released the latest version of its Vector software, 3.17.R04, which features performance and usability enhancements, as well as fixes which resolve issues with the GUI.

Performance enhancements include Improved redraw of views when 'File Attachment' is visible in the Master PB Cue sheet; 'Update dialog' now opens faster for large show files on VxWorks consoles; 'Graphic Time-line Editing' is now faster, while the CPU requirement of the Graphic Time Line itself has been reduced by two-thirds.

Among the bug fixes, system settings are loaded correctly on Compulit

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South Africa - Denis Hutchinson designed both set and lighting for Brothers in Blood at the Market Theatre using the new Robe DT 3000s - a first for South African theatre - as well as a grandMA full size console. DWR Distribution comment: "We will attempt to capture all Hutch' had to say during a recent interview, as we without question, could not word it better ourselves. We thoroughly enjoyed hearing how Robe technology brought a new dynamic to the production and set design."

Hutchinson says: "Brothers in Blood deals with very emotive issues; it's set in

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UK - Creative design house 7thSense won Imaging or Editing Product of the Year for its Delta Media Server at the recent AV Awards which took place at the Hilton Park Lane Hotel, London.

For the award, the panel of judges noted, "7thSense takes the gong for its Delta Media Server for the simple reason that it has 'steadily grown its market, and Delta's capabilities, to make it a force in a worldwide a-v market."

Ian Macpherson, co-founder and director at 7thSense, adds, "We're proud to have our Delta Media Server product recognised at our first ever AV

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Denmark - Optical projection pioneers, dnp, recently hosted a two-day seminar attended by 50 leading A/V dealers, consultants and integrators from Germany and Austria.

The delegation was co-ordinated by Rainer Sprinzl, managing director sales and marketing at COMM-TEC, dnp's German distributors.

dnp's Anker Haldan comments, "Our products need to be seen and experienced in order to truly understand the benefits they provide in terms of the viewer experience."

The two-day course set out to prove the concept Seeing is Believing, and was divided into theoretical and w

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Germany - Norway's projectiondesign is jointly sponsoring the first Virtual Efficiency Congress being held at SpOrt Stuttgart in Germany between 5-6 November, 2009.

The event will see the first ever demonstration of the company's flagship three-chip F80 1080 DLP projectors in a stereo visualization configuration, using embedded INFITEC wavelength multiplex imaging filter technology. This type of configuration is designed for bright, large-screen viewing in a range of environments such as VR analysis, museums and large room presentations.

The F80 incorporates projectiondesign's new A

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Denmark - Danish company Neets, who manufacture control systems for audio visual equipment, has developed a new power control - 1 relay box. This new power control offers the possibility to save power in installations and help the environment. At the same time, using the power control in your installation minimizes the risk of fire, the company says.

Installed with a Neets Control System, the relay box is designed to cut power from the projector, amplifier, DVD and other audio-visual equipment when the devices are not in use. The power control can cut power from two units at the same

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UK - Mission Media were approached by Nokia, who asked them to suspend a 6-tonne, 20m by 8.5m video wall in the shape of an arrow 40m above the ground in the shadow of Tower Bridge. In addition to that, it would have to rotate, while footage of the screen would be streamed live to the Internet.

Nokia's unusual brief was for an event to launch the 'Good Things' campaign associated with their global launch of the new OVI Service.

Mission Media contacted Neil Keane of Event production Management & Design (EPMD) who quickly assembled his team of long-term associates. A design for the sc

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UK - Clarion Events has appointed DB Systems and Aztec Event Services to manage the audio visual requirements of its UK shows. DB and Aztec were awarded the three-year contract, which involves 23 shows, following a nine-way pitch.

Among the shows DB will service are Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show, which is the UK's largest consumer travel show, The Baby Show, the International Gaming Exhibition, and the International Caravan & Motorhome Show.

Oliver Richardson, DB's sales director, said: "DB Systems has been working with Clarion Events since

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USA - In its first year of production, Pixled products have been used on tours including Keith Urban, Coldplay, Pink and Jay-Z as well as many televised events including the Eurovision Song Contest. Pixled, which was well received during its official European launch at PLASA in London in Septemberwill be presented at the upcoming LDI in Orlando this month.

Originally beta tested as the F LED 11 and the Spider 40, the products were lauded for their exceptional light weight yet uncompromised quality of the LED video imaging, says the company. Pixled's entire product line, ranging

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USA - Furman has partnered with Almo Professional AV in a move to extend its sales and distribution network to professional AV integrators, dealers, and consultants. Under the agreement, Almo will help establish distribution and manage sustained sales growth for Furman's Pro 120V power management solutions.

With 12 distribution centres across the USA, Almo is a leading value-added distributor that specialises in serving AV professionals in a wide variety of markets. The company will be adding to its offering Furman's Pro AV and home theatre lines of power management solutions, which p

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Emerging Talent News - The Paul McCartney auditorium at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) rocked to the sounds and songs of the UK's finest young songwriters on Saturday 31 October at the annual Yamaha / LIPA Make It Break It Awards (MIBI) ceremony. A capacity audience including record industry executives and music press was treated to a show of inspiring and professional live performances from award winners Alex Cheatle, Kirsty Keatch, OCD, Polly Mackey & The Pleasure Principle, Sahreal and Joni Fuller.

Produced by Yamaha and LIPA, the 2009 Make It Break It

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Germany - publitec Präsentationssysteme & Eventservice of Herdecke, Germany, has recently bought 16 MA VPU plus Video Processing Units. In addition to its regular hardware configuration, the innovative video control is also fitted with two HD-SDI-in inputs.

Jens Richter of publitec comments: "At the beginning of 2009, we launched the 'Content Competence Centre', allowing publitec to offer its clients comprehensive support regarding video content handling and multichannel image presentation. Our strength lies in our knowledge of video formatting and encoding as well as in the usa

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USA - Chief Manufacturing has announced new Fusion Series Pull-Out mounts, designed for video walls and digital signage, and single-screen recessed applications.

Inspired by installer feedback, the new FusionSeries Pull-Out mounts (LSMVU/MSMVU) extend 7" (178 mm) for easy cable access and servicing in hard-to-reach installations - even on the centremost screen of a video wall matrix. Fine-tuning of plumb adjustment also ensures that the screens are perfectly vertical, even if the wall is not. These comprehensive mounting solutions include a variety of features to make installatio

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USA - Upstage Video has created a 60ft x10ft (18m x 3m) LED floor for premier Canadian event producers The Aileron Group, using the next generation LED display developed by Element Labs. Making its debut with Upstage Video is the Cobra V8 LED display, which forms a 'video carpet': the LED floor design had 315 Cobra V8 panels with a total of over 725,000 virtual pixels.

Doug Murray of Upstage Video says: "We had been considering an investment in Element Labs' new Cobra products given their light weight, slim design and fabulous video capabilities. The timing anddesign of the Ailer

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UK - Earlier this year, Manchester-based rental staging company, A to V became one of the first customers for the new Christie Roadster HD10K-M 3-chip DLP projectors, which were immediately pressed into service on a major product launch for Bosch.

The company originally purchased six projectors but have now doubled that quantity - principally to service a corporate awards spectacular for another household name, Co-operative Retail. Nine of the Christie units formed a pivotal part of the production, which took place in an unusual format at Manchester's G-MEX Centre in late October, and

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Switzerland - Visual Productions has announced the appointment of a new distributor for Switzerland - ASL Electronic AG. Based in Basel the company has a 27-year long history working with many of the major brands as exclusive distributer working in German, French and Italian language areas of Switzerland.

"During the recent PLASA show we were fortunate enough to be introduced to CEO David Scherz and his sales director, Sébastien Wira," says Visual Productions. "Wira found the versatility of Cuelux being made cross platform a very interesting contender and with th

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UK - The World Travel Market held at ExCeL last week used four of PSCo's 103" plasmas to relay content to the exhibition's travel professionals from across the globe.

The exhibition offered a seminar, conference and event programme presenting the issues and hot topics of the travel industry. Working with the exhibition since 1995, production company Fred Productions were brought in to produce the main conference set and relay live content and information to the show's visitors.

The World Travel Market is the first exhibition to use four 103" Panasonic plasma screens as a d

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UK - PSCo has appointed Mark Warden as a project manager to support its integration partners, working with its clients from a position of experience and understanding from every side of the sales process including service, sales and engineering.

Warden, who joins the company with 10 years AV experience, has worked at two of the industry's leading integration companies, Saville Audio Visual and Matrix Display Systems. His experience includes starting as an AV engineer progressing to the position of project manager within Saville Audio Visual during his six years with the company.

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Belgium - Night of the Proms is a high profile music and entertainment spectacular which combines popular classical music with pop. Night of the Proms 2009 is the 25th anniversary tour, featuring OMD and marking the first reunion of Swedish rock stars, Roxette. Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation, jazz legend Toots Thielemans and Peter and Zoltan Katona also appear in the show, which will tour for 40 dates across five European countries in front of a total of 600,000 audience members.

Production company, EML, has supplied lighting, sound and large format projection -

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UK - International AV company Electrosonic is beginning its second year of registration by certification body NQA, to international environmental standard ISO 14001.

Robert Webb, Electrosonic quality, health & safety and environment manager explains, "As an organisation we continually assess the environmental impact of our operations and include environmental considerations in all investment decisions. We therefore decided to go for ISO 14001 certification.

"NQA has always provided us with the necessary support, tools and techniques. The auditing team are professional, und

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