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UK - DB Systems has been nominated for two awards at next month's AEO Excellence Awards 2010.

DB is in the running for the Equipment Supplier of the Year and Service Supplier of the Year categories. DB won the Service Supplier of the Year award at last year's event.

David Bulley, DB's managing director said: "These nominations reflect the work ethic and high standards so synonymous with DB Systems. We always display innovation, creativity and professionalism at major global shows, such as Mobile World Congress and DSEi.

"In the past 12 months we've invested close to &pou

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France - Christie, technical partner to the Cannes Film Festival for the fourth year running, has announced that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (presented out of competition), opened Cannes in full 2K digital resolution. The film was screened on the next-generation Series 2 projector, the Christie SolariaT CP2230, which features DLP Cinema technology from Texas Instruments.

Designed to meet all Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) specifications, the Christie Solaria series is scalable and geared towards 4K digital cinema. Its Christie Brilliant3DT technology delivers "the brightes

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Spain - ARX, the Australian-based manufacturer of USB, Digital & Analogue interface and signal processors has appointed Seville-based Rental Multimedia Systems S.L. (R.M.S) as its new distributor for Spain.

ARX Managing Director Colin Park finalised the distribution agreement with R.M.S's Rafael Jimenez and Alvaro Elena at the recent Frankfurt Pro Light + Sound.

R.M.S is a subsidiary of Meyer Sound Spain and currently also represents Digico and Whirlwind.

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Hungary - Opened in November 2009, the Allee Shopping Centre in Budapest features 47,000m2 of retail space, with outlets ranging from global giants like Marks & Spencer and Vodaphone to local, specialist retailers; a multi-screen cinema, fitness club and a wide range of food outlets. Enticing shoppers to make the most of the facilities are two Lighthouse screens.

Budapest-based AV Control won a competitive tender to secure the contract for supplying an internal and external LED screen for advertising, choosing Lighthouse panels to maximise the effectiveness of the two sites.

The ext

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Germany - Nicknamed 'The Green Hell' by Jackie Stewart, Germany's Nürburgring motor racing circuit has now added the new 15,000sq.m, multi-million euro Ring°Werk motorsport-themed visitor attraction to the site.

Featured at Ring°Werk are a variety of multimedia attractions, exhibitions and dining/retail experiences, including the Ring°Racer rollercoaster; Grüne Hölle multimedia theatre; 24hr Race in 4D; Motor Mania dark ride; Truck Grand Prix simulator attraction, and Nürbus Eifel Tour, a simulator-based tour through the Eifel Forest. Finally, Test°Center is an int

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UK - Green hippo has begun shipping all Hippotizer HDs with extensive hardware revisions enabling radical performance gains for the media server range. Based around Intel's i7 processors the revisions harness the processors power and work in conjunction with version 3.0.14's new software Playback Engine from the London based company. The i7-based servers are significantly faster and allow for more video playback layers. Previous machines ran between 2-5 layers depending on the specification and the age of the unit whilst the new i7 based units are capable of eight layers of full HD play

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UK - Manchester based DBN Lighting helped creative production company, Just Communicate to realise a visual concept for the annual conference and gala dinner of a leading technology company at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, Birmingham NEC.

The brief from show producer Julian Ward was to transform the hotel's Monarch Suite into a flexible presentation space and gala dinner venue. This would host a daytime conference for a leading international technology company, and then morph into an X-Factor style televisual environment for the evening awards dinner.

Just Communicate's concept was to

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UK - RTW has announced the European debut of its TouchMonitor series. The TouchMonitor TM7, with a 7" touch screen and the TouchMonitor TM9, with a 9" touch screen, will be on display for attendees at AES London 2010 this weekend.

"With the launch of the TouchMonitor series, RTW is defining an entirely new category of product that will not only help audio professionals meet current loudness standards, but does so in a more interactive, intuitive way," says Andreas Tweitmann, managing director, RTW. "We are excited to share such a sophisticated, powerful soluti

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UK - With his strong marketing background, Aztec Event Services MD, John Robson, immediately seized the opportunity to fill a gap in his company's rental fleet after seeing the Christie MicroTilesT launch at February's ISE Show in Amsterdam.

"I surround myself with good technical people, but my strength is seeing opportunities - that's my niche," he says. "There was clearly a buzz surrounding MicroTiles, and I could see immediately it was the product I had been looking for."

Aztec was originally formed in 1989 but Robson took over one of its divisions following a

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Korea - Christie reports that South Korea based D-Cinema Korea Co. Ltd. (DCK) has committed to installing Christie 4K-ready Solaria™ Series DLP Cinema projectors in the second phase of their digital cinema deployments, countrywide. After a successful first phase of installations, DCK selected Christie's Series 2 projectors, based on their reliability, low cost of ownership and upgradeability to 4K.

In the initial deployment plan, DCK, the joint-venture company of Lotte Cinema and CJ CGV, installed Christie CP2000 Series projectors in the majority of cinemas across the country. Th

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USA - DNP will have a strong presence at this year's InfoComm Show (9-11 June) in Las Vegas.

Pride of place will go to the newly-announced Supernova 23-23-screen material. This high-gain material (NGHG) has been developed in response to feedback from customers wanting higher-gain screens for smaller projectors, in order to reduce overall installation costs.

Supernova 23-23 addresses and eliminates (or drastically reduces) previous screen limitations, providing 35° increase in horizontal viewing angles. It is available with immediate effect on Supernova One (with which it will be

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UK - With just over one week to go before the 2010 PLASA AGM & Members Lunch, the organisation is asking all its Business Members to make sure they cast their vote on the proposed merger with North American trade association, ESTA.

The PLASA AGM & Members Lunch, which takes place this year at Kings Place, London on Wednesday 2 June, is always an enjoyable event and an excellent networking opportunity for the Association's members. However, this year's meeting will mark a significant step for the organisation as Members are urged to vote in favour of the proposed merger with ESTA. ESTA

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UK - For the ninth year running Hawthorns have been contracted to supply Walk the Walk's MoonWalk and SunWalk power walk challenges in aid of breast cancer charities.

Hawthorn were also involved in Walk the Walk's new challenge this year, the Celebrity SunWalk in Southampton, created to celebrate the naming and launch of the new Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship.

For the two MoonWalks involving nearly 30,000 'MoonWalkers', Hawthorns provided lighting, sound, staging, rigging, power distribution and for the first year Video which was installed into De Boer's massive

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UK - Green Hippo's VideoMapper hit the road with Editors on their recent In this Light and on this Evening tour, promoting the latest album from the Birmingham quartet.

Lighting company Siyan supplied all the lighting for the show. Lighting designer Cate Carter, who has previously worked on successful tours for Duffy and Elbow, and her colleague video designer Paul 'Pablo' Beckett, specified two HippoCritters, conceiving one of the most creative uses of VideoMapper to date.

The design brief for the tour was to create something, dark, edgy, sinister and theatrical and as they

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China - PRG has chosen Barco's video and lighting equipment for their installations at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. The company was responsible for delivery and installation of the audiovisual technology in the Belgo-European pavilion, the United Arab Emirates pavilion and the opening ceremony. To bring the designs to life, PRG used Barco's LED, lighting and projection technology.

The most important inspiration for the designers of the Belgo-European Pavilion was the image of a neuron. This image, the 'Brain Cell', represents the central position of Belgium in the heart of Europe and

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USA - The largest annual Christian music tour in the United States - Winter Jam - toured the country from January until late March with acts like Third Day, Newsboys, Newsong, and Sidewalk Prophets.

One of the main visual elements of the set was a flown wall of upgraded LC Series LED panels supplied by Axxis of Louisville, KY. The enhanced panels were upgraded with many features of Martin's LC Plus LED panels including compatibility with Martin's advanced video signal processor, the P3-100 System Controller.

Production manager and set design duties for the tour were handled b

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UK - Integrator IVC Media has announced a new focus for its management team. John Smith who joined IVC at the start of 2010, as sales director, will take over as managing director and Ray Harding, former IVC MD, will step up to the role of chairman from 1 June. In addition, the company is creating Operations, Commercial and Sales divisions to allow services to be tailored even more closely to customer requirements.

"IVC works with some of the world's leading organisations in the field of IT, AV and broadcast installations," saysohn Smith, managing director of IVC Media. &quo

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Switzerland - SpinetiX, developer of the Hyper Media Player hardware appliance, and Scala, the global connected signage company, have announced that their systems can now be integrated together to create cost-effective, flexible and reliable digital signage solutions without the need for a PC.

Scala's Content Manager 5 and Designer 5 software platforms can now deliver content to the dedicated SpinetiX HMP100 hardware device. The HMP100 uses the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) family of open-standard specifications that allows XML-based file formats to describe static, dynamic and anima

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China - A Medialon Manager Control System is being used to control and synchronise the AV devices installed inside and outside of the Macau Pavilion in Shanghai World Expo 2010.

The 10,336 cubic metre Macau Pavilion has been especially built for the World Expo in China. It is covered by a double-layer glass membrane and fluorescent screens. Rep[resents Macau's return to the Chinese mainland in 1999. The exterior of the pavilion is made of thousands of LED lights which change colours to create a spectacular show. The design of the building was inspired by rabbit lanterns, which were po

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USA - Returning to InfoComm, Swedish image processing and show-control specialist Dataton will showcase its flagship, Dataton Watchout.

Watchout version 4.2, shown for the first time at InfoComm, promises more flexibility, remote control, scheduling and enhanced interfaces for complex and high-impact multimedia demonstrations.

Michael Engström, director of sales at Dataton, explains, "Partners and visitors attending the show are invited not only to see the latest technology on the Dataton booth but also to register for hourly booth demonstrations highlighting how Watchout can

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Brazil - Inaugurated in April 1940, the Estádio Municipal Paulo Machado de Carvalho (colloquially known as 'Pacaembu') in São Paulo has been transformed by the addition of a new Museu do Futebol (Soccer Museum) which covers 6,900sq.m yet has been built without any alteration to the classical design of the arena's exterior.

The museum's 17 rooms of exhibits tell the story of soccer in Brazil, from its early days as a pastime for the educated elite to its contemporary status as a multi-million dollar industry. While the icons of the Brazilian game down the years are very much in evide

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USA - Medialon is to present MIP HD, the first multimedia/video sync player at InfoComm 2010 in Las Vegas.

MIP HD is a new Medialon compact player able to playback both multimedia content such as Flash, Html, Jpeg and even URLs as well as 1080p HD video. Interactive media such as Flash keep their interactivity if needed.

Its built-in web server provides web user interface to remotely upload media, to build up playlists and to schedule and retrieve log files.

The Sync Video mode allows synchronization of unlimited number of HD video playback via the network.

It can either operate

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USA - dnp denmark will show a curved dnp Supernova front projection screen based on the dnp Supernova Infinity concept in the Digital Projection display at InfoComm this week.

For the first time, dnp denmark will display a curved Supernova Infinity Screen. Dubbed the Supernova Infinity Arc, this massive screen has a height of 7ft (2.1m) and a radius of 40ft (12.2m). "This concept screen provides a glimpse into the future of what the capabilities are with the Supernova Infinity Arc," says dnp's product manager, Johnny Jensen. "As far as applications are concerned, we dev

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UK - eMerging, the UK distributor of Merging Technologies' Pyramix DAW and VCube video playback systems, has supplied three 64-track Masscore-enhanced Pyramix DAW systems to TSL, the systems integrator working on MediaCityUK, the Peel Media development on Salford Quays, Manchester's waterfront. The £500 million mixed-use development incorporates a new home for BBC North, a new HD studio complex, apartments, a hotel, office accommodation, retail and catering and an outdoor plaza shaped around a stunning waterfront.

Two of the Pyramix systems are destined for use in Peel Media's n

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