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UK - Hawthorn has supplied over 70 linear metres of its new LED video cloth, Media Surge, to the BBC for its Eurovision: Your Country Needs You 2010 heats; working with set designer Alex Craig and LD Mark Kenyon on yet another TV production.

Six acts competed for the honour of representing the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo in May, singing a song written by Pete Waterman.

Your Country Needs You featured a stunning set with a backdrop of 72 linear metres of Hawthorn's LED video cloth, 4m high. The programming was supplied by the show's production team and Hawthorn's engineers operated the Media Surge.

Alex Craig, commented, "I was delighted to find an LED cloth product that gave me the large scale coverage that I needed at a price I could a

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Norway - The F82 three-chip DLP projector from Norway's projectiondesign is now shipping.

Anders L°kke, international marketing & communications manager at projectiondesign comments, "We're very excited about the F82 and its potential. All the functions and advanced features required to power today's most challenging and sophisticated projection systems are to be found in the latest addition to the projectiondesign professional series."

Producing images at 10,000 lumens brightness strengthens the F82's presence and accessibility to a growing number of large venue appli

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USA - Cree reports that its high brightness LEDs are used in Lighthouse Technologies' high definition video screens installed this season in the American Airlines Centre, the Dallas home to both the NBA's Mavericks and NHL's Stars. Cree's versatile 3-in-1 high-brightness LEDs are delivering crystal-clear, high definition images to fans throughout the arena.

In addition to hosting thousands of NBA and NHL fans, the American Airlines Centre also features numerous concerts and live entertainment throughout the year. Opened nearly 10 years ago and seating up to 20,000, the installation of

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UK/Netherlands - European AV resellers and integrators attending a meeting of the Genuine Lamps Alliance (GLA) in Amsterdam called on projector lamp manufacturers to join the Alliance's anti-copy lamp initiative.

Founded with the support of international lamp distributor Just Lamps, the GLA campaigns to bring the issue of counterfeit, or 'copy lamps', to the attention of the distribution channel, consumers, institutional and business buyers. Copy lamps often infringe intellectual property rights, offer inferior performance and, in some instances, cause equipment damage or even physica

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usa - After an acclaimed world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, the new musical American Idiot is set for Broadway.

Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer and featuring music by multi-Grammy Award winning punk trio Green Day, the new rock tuner takes the St. James Theatre beginning 24 March, 2010. Opening night is set for 20 April.

American Idiot follows the journey of a new generation of young Americans as they struggle to find meaning in a post 9/11 world, lived through Green Day's score. The musical includes every song from the album Ame

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