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"The RealD XL Cinema System and International Datacasting's SuperFlex Pro Cinema Event Player (PCEP) are available today, along with Christie's DLP® projectors, providing cinema owners and content owners with the foundation they need to realize new revenue streams from the projection of 'alternative content' sporting and theatrical events in 3D HFR," said Dr. Don Shaw, director, product management for Christie's Entertainment Solutions division.

Content showing the world-famous Cavalia equestrian production company in action was

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Conceived by Chris Lawson, manager of the Saville production team in Edinburgh, the conference was designed as an educational forum for the Scottish events market and the agenda was devised by polling the market, using social media to determine the most pressing issues of the day.

The topics chosen by the virtual community were Social Media, Event Content and Hybrid Events and the initiative attracted delegates from many different sectors of the industry. These included event managers, conference planners, corporate event teams and destination management companies, with many joining the event on-line or via Twitter.

The day was chaired by events journalist and consultant Richard John who f

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A Bluman Associates Storm Trooper displayed his projection know-how by beaming a large, modified image of Darth Vader onto London's Battersea Power Station as part of the event.

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It was the second time that Ashton has designed visuals for the show which was last staged in 2009, returning by popular public demand. Ashton also has a previous history of displaying his visual art to large-scale productions in Malta. Says Ashton, "It was an honour to be asked back to work in Malta on this event."

An enthusiastic 10,500 capacity audience packed into the Malta Fairs & Convention Centre (MFCC) to experience the two hour Rockestra show, with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the musical direction of Sigmund Mifsud performing a selection of classics made famous by a variety of

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The Saville team provided full project support for the outdoor event, from the design process through to production and delivery. The facilities included staging, truss and a PA rig for the 300-strong audience, plus smoke machines and external and internal lighting to create the realistic furnace effects.

The spicy version of the more familiar fizzy drink will be on sale alongside 'trick or treat' packs to coincide with Halloween.

Saville business manager for Scotland, Chris Lawson said, "Designing

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These four DVI output units are to replace their existing Pandora's Box units, which were also among the first in UK rental stock when purchased 5 years ago.

The new units were specified by CPL's Nick Diacre, and supplied via UK distributors, TMB. The latest CPL investment was timed to coincide with a large automotive industry event for which CPL is the video supplier at the NEC in Birmingham, after which they will be going directly on to another show where sophisticated video mapping is required.

With media server technology developing so rapidly in the last five years, Nick Diacre explains that they looked at all the options when it came to the scope of CPL's projects, a lot of

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The month-long ballot, in which over 1,000 members participate, will decide places on PLASA's European and North American Regional Boards, together with a single seat on its over-arching Governing Body.

The two Regional Boards are still a relatively new concept for PLASA, having been formally launched at the start of 2011. Their role is to represent the interests of members affiliated to those regions, ensuring that PLASA offers strong on the ground support to members.

Both the North American and European Regional Boards are looking to fill a number of places for 2012. Following the death of the European Chair Rob Lingfield earlier this year, Ed Pagett of Panalux, who served as Vice Chair, is standing for the position of Chair. A number of representative positi

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The stand was never empty with visitors stopping by repeatedly and the upstairs area provided the perfect space for meetings or a chance to chill out with a drink from the strains of the show - perhaps with a pint of UberBrew or a glass of the green GrassHopper, says the company.

As always, the run-up to the show was a busy time with programming, building a house and not least of all with Green Hippo's new brochure finally ready and printed only days before the doors opened. With demonstrations and meetings as well as the usual dinners, parties and entertainment everyone was kept thoroughly busy for the four show-days.

Green Hippo's

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The launch itself occurred in the Developer Sessions conference room, for which PF Events were contracted to supply all the audio, video, lighting, staging and technical management. The four-day event featured presentations from some of the leading games developers and manufacturers in the industry and included a combination of speech, HD presentations and on-stage gameplay.

PF Events installed 12 KV2 EX10 speakers and two Noise Control Audio VSB218 subwoofers in a 7.1 surround sound configuration. A Panasonic PT-DZ110X full HD projector was also installed with a 16ft x 9ft Monoblox projector screen. All the video was controlled using a Christie Spyder X20 HD video processor which was ideal for s

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Chaired by Clive Couldwell, Editor of AV Europe, the judges' citation read: "A fantastic entry from Blitz Communications! Their submission showed that hard work really pays off - making significant profits this year, despite the economic downturn. They have shown product innovation with the development of their own digital signage system, LiveVIEW, as well as impressive marketing innovations."

The awards ceremony was held at the London Hilton, Park Lane and was attended by over 600 executives from the AV and events industry. Paul Hutton, managing director, collected the award on behalf of the Blitz Team, which currently numbers some 95 employees.

Commenting on the win of the award, Munir Samji, chief executive, said, "This awar

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Damien Lebrun and Nathalie Grassi from CYWEB, a France-based company specialized in multimedia tools and content development, were in charge of the design, production, and the installation of the audio/images/lighting system, as well as the programming of the Medialon show control system.

The Black Arch installation is about two visions of the world, of two cities - Mecca in Saudi Arabia and Venice in Italy. The work is a stage, set to project the artists' collectiv

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As a result, well over 200 dnp Supernova Core 16:10 optical screens will be deployed for general purpose use within primary and secondary schools in the borough over the next few months. This includes 105 low-gain (08:85) screens - to be divided across five primary schools - after the council had earlier endorsed the Supernova platform for use in two new-build secondary schools due for completion in early 2012.

The decision was made following a presentation made by Paradigm to main contractors, Laing O'Rourke, along with the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham's ICT Strategy team.

Three Supernova Cores were then successfully trialled, before the initial secondary school order was placed. This comprises 62 x Superno

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This was for a special event at their base in Diespeker Wharf, Islington, on the banks of the Regent Canal, a listed building and former Victorian timber mill, which has been innovatively restored and converted into a contemporary workspace and HQ for the practice.

The event - PTEa's first projection project and the latest in a series of transformations staged at Diespeker Wharf - celebrated the building as a local landmark, reflecting its history and location, its many previous uses and occupants and its current owners, PTE architects.

First Ashton storyboarded a script, and once that w

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Owned by MSAT Cable, a subsidiary of Holding Varna, the priority of this broadcaster is to deliver top quality business and financial information to local audiences and international investors, advising them on the opportunities that exist in Bulgaria. Their development strategy is to generate leads by attracting the right audience.

Assisting them in their mission is the new MicoTiles display, which is located in a versatile new studio, for which five separate stages have been built to host the different shows.

The feature backdrop is a curved display, measuring 5.71 x 2.45m and containing 112 MicroTiles. In addition there are two displays with 30 MicroTiles each (2

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The high-impact digital scenery and projections elements were designed by Jon Driscoll. He was asked onboard by the anniversary show's designer Matt Kinley and by Cameron Macintosh's production manager Nic Harris. Driscoll also designed the projections for Phantom sequel Love Never Dies which ran at the Adelphi Theatre.

Driscoll in turn asked XL to provide the hardware, with XL's Paul Wood project managing their elements of the three RAH shows, the final one of which was broadcast live to movie houses in the US, Japan, Australia, Europe and across the UK. Driscoll has wor

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Working closely with local long-term partner and AV integrator, Shadok Audio-Visual, Mitsubishi supplied the two 12.8m by 7.68m screens, consisting of its recently introduced Diamond Vision ODX8 LED screen modules. Each 15:9 aspect ratio screen offers a native resolution of 1600 by 960 pixels at 6000 cd/sq.m, delivering extremely high-quality images in all lighting conditions.

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Using exclusively Christie projection, they helped the City's landmark Grade 1-listed Royal Liver Building celebrate its centenary, while marking the opening of the Museum of Liverpool - the largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century. With both buildings sited at the Pier Head the event was fittingly entitled Reflection on the Waterfront.

The showstopper on each of the three nights was the pixel-mapping extravaganza, titled The Macula Spectacular.

The contract required carefully, geometry-aligned projection onto the two buildings - the history of Liverpool onto the Royal Liver Building and a series of modern art projections onto the Museum, which

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Phantom Engineering has so far purchased nine HDs for various projects, plus two demonstration HDs for their role as Green Hippo distributor.

Phantom Engineering first contacted Green Hippo at the end of 2010 with a view to buying six HDs for the 25th Winter Universiade in Erzurum earlier this year.

Since then Phantom has not stopped. They have worked continuously on one event after the other and their projects include The World Children's Games Opening in Turkey with seven Hippotizer HDs using a total of 13 outputs for 12 Christie HD18K and one Curved LED display running content of 5Kx3K.

By this year's PLASA it was decided that with the hard work Phantom had put in, their knowledge and experience of

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Manager KIOSK is the solution when link to other controls and link to external world is needed without the burden of doing C++ or Flash programming.

This new special edition of Medialon Manager, Medialon's awarded Windows-based powerful audiovisual control software, benefits from Medialon Manager's control programming environment, its graphical user interface and its easy programming tools which make kiosk programming easier and more powerful than ever.

With Manager KIOSK, it is easy to build user interfaces with buttons, sliders, text displays, gauges, lists, and text entry fields as well as embedded media or video playback without being a C++ or Adobe

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Blair Parkin, managing director, Visual Acuity comments, "The technological scope of our work continues to develop, as does our geographical reach - we are currently working on projects as far afield as Asia, the Middle East, the US and Europe.

"Damian will lead and champion our customers' interests and provide advice and support to architects, building engineers, vendors and other service providers on each project."

Andrews' industry experience dates back to the mid-1990s when, while studying for a Dip

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To coincide with the increased local presence, industry veteran Stein Ramsli has taken on the role of regional director, Russia and CIS. Ramsli previously held the position of managing director at Cisco/TANDBERG Russia and PLC and has extensive experience in working in the region.

Ramsli comments, "Our opening of an office in Moscow clearly demonstrates projectiondesign's commitment to supporting partners in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Our products are already very popular in the region, and we foresee strong continued growth here. Localising sales and marketing, training and product service and support is important for us, and will ensure our continued success."

At the same

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Positioned at the major intersection of Kutuzovskiy Prospekt and Krasnopresnenskaya Naberezhnaya, the screen is located in front of the Parliament building and is seen by many thousands of Muscovites each day. It was installed by Newform International, one of the country's most successful advertising companies and is powered by an IMTV system.

Comprising a 12 x 6 panel (15.36 x 5.76m) main screen, plus a 1 x 6 panel (1.28 x 5.76m) vertical strip, all of Lighthouse 10mm panels. The content is streamed using SCALA software with control via the inter

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Blackout is well known for its truss and rigging services, skills which proved invaluable when it designed and installed a temporary 18m wide by 8m tall screen using the specialist Demopsec screen material, of which Blackout is a UK distributor.

The company provided further infrastructure for the event including the ground support for the screen, the entrance way banner structure, general outdoor waterproof stock drapes across the site and six 10m rigging masts to fly the sound system.

Kevin Monks, Blackout's installations director, said, "This was our second large-scale outside cinema e