UK - Following the successful launch of its Super2fer product at the PLASA Show in September, where it picked up a PLASA Award for Innovation, manufacturer Digital & Future Technologies has announced that it is now working on a new chipset upgrade, which will mean a delay to the shipping of the product.

Chris Crockford told LSi: "This is a blow to our original plans, but it will mean more bandwidth and more box connectivity. We have also found a couple of manufacturing errors with the original boxes when tested in the field, so we are working to correct them, along with integrati

UK - Following the appointment of Alex Leinster as managing director, Chaos Visual Productions has announced that Mick Jones will be joining the company as project director in the UK.

Jones joined the Chaos team on 1 November directly from PRG where he has been instrumental in the project management and delivery of their new video offering in the UK for the last two years. He brings with him over 25 years' experience across the whole live event industry.

"I look forward to joining and being part of the team at Chaos UK with such a great group of people; people who understand th

USA - CAST is pulling out all the stops for PLASA Focus Stamford with not one, but four new products, plus an educational seminar. PLASA Focus will be held 12-13 November at the Stamford Marriott in Stamford, Connecticut where CAST will be exhibiting in Booth 121 and will demonstrate their newest products, BlackTrax, wysiwyg R29, Vivien 2012 and Vivien Online.

Jim Hutchison, product manager wysiwyg and Vivien, will present the seminar entitled, The Birth, Childhood, and Apparent Adolescence of Lighting Design Technology as part of the PLASA Focus Professional Development Progra

Denmark - The AV Alliance, of which Blitz Communications is a member, is a Bronze Sponsor of the FRESH conference being held in Copenhagen early next year.

FRESH is a conference focused purely on meeting design. Attendees will experience, discover and learn about the latest tools and techniques to improve meetings and conferences and make them more effective. They can meet and confer with professionals in all aspects of meeting planning including design, production, facilitation, evaluation and much more. This mix of people and products make FRESH the conference of choice for anyone w

USA - Marquis Broadcast, specialist in content workflows and media integration software, has announced it has donated five copies of X2Pro Audio Convert for use on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. X2Pro Audio Convert is Marquis' cutting edge conversion application for delivering Final Cut Pro X projects to Avid Pro Tools for audio finishing. The solution will be used in the state-of-the-art mobile audio and HD video recording and production facility that educates young people in free song-writing and multimedia production workshops across the US and also in Europe from 2013.

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UK - Universal Event Productions (UEP) supplied a slick, streamlined design and all technical production required - set, staging, audio and lighting - to stage the 2012 Mobile Choice Consumer Awards event in the Ballroom of the Northumberland Hotel, central London. This honours the brightest, most innovative and popular mobile technologies, and UEP has been involved for the last 11 years.

Says UEP's Steve Butcher: "The concept always involves creating a comfortable and high tech looking environment to reflect a trendy up-to-the-minute industry. Working this space at the Northumbe

USA / Belgium - ArKaos reports "an extremely successful show" at LDI, Las Vegas where the company exhibited with its new North American distributor, A.C. Lighting Inc. for the first time. Newly appointed in June this year, A.C. Lighting Inc distributes the full range of ArKaos Show and Lighting products across North America and Canada.

LDI saw the North American debut of two new products from Arkaos, the ArKaos MediaMaster 3.0, complete with new Video Mapper extension, and the new Stage Media Server. A.C. Lighting Inc presented the new products by saying, "The ArKaos te

UAE - Barco has signed a distribution agreement with AV expert TechnoPro LLC. TechnoPro will ensure the availability, delivery and support for Barco's projection and image processing products, including the award-winning new range of ultra-bright HDX, HDF- and HDQ-projectors, in the Middle East region, thus helping Barco Dubai keep up with the increasing demand.

Headquartered in Dubai, TechnoPro LLC is one of the Middle East's leading suppliers of technology for the entertainment market. Its over 12,000 m2 warehouses in Dubai, Qatar, and Lebanon house a large stock of state-of-the-art

UK - Production house sevens7 recently approached XL Events to supply a range of visual solutions to Nissan for an innovative Future : Today roadshow and driver experience promoting the new LEAF electric car which is currently touring Scandinavia.

XL's project managers Phil Goddard and Robin Evans combined seamless plasmas with conventional 85 inch screens and MiStrips to produce a highly innovative exhibition environment as well as a visually enticing display on the outside of the venue.

The novel mobile brand activation space is a concept created by brand engineers Proud Ro

UK - Christie has introduced the G Series and four new E Series 1-chip DLP projectors. In the new G Series, the Christie DHD550-G and Christie DWU550-G provide 5,000 lumens, 1-chip DLP technology and a single mercury-lamp design for fixed applications with "better price performance and higher brightness than other projectors in their class," says the company.

Similar to G Series, the four new E Series projectors deliver attractive price performance, higher brightness, and increased flexibility and reliability for both fixed and rental staging applications, the company contin

USA - Christie Lites has added Richard Willis to its Rental Rep team. Willis recently joined the company as a national account rep in the Nashville office and serves his client base from all 12 Christie warehouse locations across North America.

Willis has played many roles in the concert touring industry since his start in the 1980s. With a law degree in hand, he left New Zealand to tour as a lighting tech. He returned to New Zealand in 1989 and soon become general manager of Theatrelite - a manufacturer of lighting consoles and dimmers - where he established a dealer network througho

Australia - Prior to the recent release of ArKaos MediaMaster Pro 3, the team at BAAC Light in Melbourne, Australia gave the new software - complete with its new Video Mapper extension - the ultimate final beta test.

An amateur production of Hairspray the Musical staged by one of Victoria's largest non-professional musical theatre companies, PLOS Musical Productions, provided the ideal opportunity due to the requirement for a fully projected set. Large moveable set pieces constructed from polystyrene called for a media server solution capable of individually mapping over 90 dif

France - Christie has announced the opening of its new office in France near Paris. Historically located in Gennevilliers, the new refurbished facility represents the logical next step for Christie's presence in the French market, providing an unrivalled level of service and support to its clients and partners, says the company.

With a surface area that has tripled in size, the new facility now occupies over 1000sq.m and hosts a vast area dedicated to service and training. It also has several dedicated spaces including a showroom for staging live demos, several rooms for seminars and

UK - Restaurant chain McDonald's has introduced digital play elements into more than 150 of its key outletss - using gesture-control technology from Paradigm AV.

This is designed to "enhance the Happy Meal experience, and to increase kids' interaction with their favourite Happy Meal characters".

Tasked with delivering this solution in restaurants with high family footfall, integrated marketing agency, The Marketing Store, contacted Bedford-based Paradigm AV.

And by using the company's advance gesture-controlled technology they were able to create and develop the Happy

UK - XL Events supplied LED screen, projection, cameras / HD PPU and crew to the high profile hmv sponsored 2012 GamesMaster Golden Joystick Awards - the world's most popular and credible video games awards - celebrating the very best in the gaming industry.

The ceremony - celebrating its 30th anniversary - was staged at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel, London, UK.

It was the first time that XL has been involved in the event - brought onboard by production company Reality Ltd. with whom they have worked on numerous other occasions. XL Events' Paul Wood project managed, working clos

UK - The Panasonic Visual Experience, which will be visiting a number of major UK and EU cities throughout this month, has begun its UK leg in Weybridge; with Stoke and Edinburgh to follow.

The Visual Experience Road Show offers the opportunity for resellers, end-users and distributors to meet with the Panasonic team and see live demonstrations of the very latest Panasonic professional projectors and displays. Attendees will also have the opportunity to take a tour of the product and solutions on display along with Panasonic technical experts who will be able to assist with any questi

New Zealand - Christie digital projection systems have been chosen for the premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey presented by Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), and New Line Cinema. To do justice to Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson's vision, Christie has been chosen to supply the digital cinema/HFR projection technology for the world premiere, to be held at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, on 28 November 2012.

Two top-of-the-line Christie Solaria CP2230 series digital projectors will flood the screen for the highly anti

UK - Xirrus has formally announced a partnership DB Systems. The partnership enables DB Systems' Event Networks division to deploy Xirrus' expanding range of high capacity wireless arrays when providing IT infrastructure services at large scale indoor and outdoor events around the world.

Since it was founded in 1994, DB Systems has built an award-winning track record of delivering bespoke AV, IT and networking services at exhibitions, conferences and other types of events worldwide. The company's Event Networks division was founded in 2009 to specialise in providing enterprise-scale A

Singapore - Henry Saravanan, founder and director of Synergy AVL Pte Ltd has been awarded with the Most Promising Entrepreneur Award by the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2012.

The event took place at Marina Bay Sands and was attended by business people and renowned public figures from various industries in Singapore.

The Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards (APEA) is one of the region's most prestigious awards-giving bodies which recognises and honours business leaders who have exhibited outstanding performance and persistence in the development of their businesses, says the

Denmark - Neets A/S, making AV control systems has introduced Neets EasyConnect - 'Complete AV Connectivity and Control for Your Tabletop'.

Neets EasyConnect solves one of the most common and frustrating problems encountered in AV presentations - When a guest presenter wants to connect a laptop computer, all too often the proper cables cannot be found, or they are too short, or the connection point is hidden away in a floor pocket or wall panel. Neets EasyConnect is the obvious solution.

All necessary connections are readily accessible, right on the tabletop or lectern, inside this

UK - XL Video, commissioned by Limited Edition Events, recently supplied 300 tiles of their bright and vibrant Pixled F-12 LED for the Royal Premiere of the new James Bond film, Skyfall.

The star-studded red carpet event, held at London's Royal Albert Hall, was attended by HRH Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and the stars of the film along with a host of other celebrity guests.

After attendees arrived on the red carpet and ascended the stairs towards the Royal Albert Hall they were met with the sight of the classic Aston Martin DB5 with a backdrop of 75 tiles of Pixle

UK - Green Hippo 3.2 recognises a year of hard work from the whole team at Green Hippo, says the company.Expanding in staff and office space as well as reshuffling roles, 3.2 is the fruit of this work. It's the biggest release in terms of features and fixes since V3 first became available, showing that the award winning software just keeps getting bigger and better.

New features include RegionMapper, X-Fade on Layer, Muti-Select, Mackie, Presets2, MaNet, Time Code On-A-Layer and Watch Folders along with a host of smaller features and Bug Fixes.

Hippotizer product manager Lee House s

Spain - In order to undertake the increasingly challenging Neuromarketing research at his Laboratory of Human-Centered Technology (known as LabHuman), at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Prof. Dr. Mariano Alcaniz Raya, needed to improve the interactive technology within a vastly improved virtual environment.

Funding from the Spanish government, in the form of an International Campus of Excellence grant, facilitated this. The former L-shaped VR facility was decommissioned and with the aid of Bedford-based Simulation Displays, working through Spanish-based 3D/virtual reality spec

UK - XL Video is supplying LED screen, custom scenic video elements, cameras / PPU and crew for the new Killers Battle Born tour which has just kicked off in the UK following the release of the band's fourth and eagerly anticipated studio album in September.

Video was specified by lighting, set and visuals designer Steven Douglas, known for his innovative and original approach. It renews a positive and long-term working relationship between XL Video and the band, and follows XL's supply of video specials for festival headliners and own shows throughout the summer. XL's project

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