Belgium - ArKaos PRO has announced the expansion of its distribution network across a further t12 European countries as it develops its successful collaboration with the A.C. Group of entertainment technology resellers.

With immediate effect, ArKaos PRO will be working with A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd's regional sales representatives in Sweden, Lithuania and the UK, who will look after ArKaos customers in Sweden, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary and Latvia.

AC-ET will be responsible for promoting, distributing and servicing ArKaos PRO's Stage and Stadium media servers as well as the ArKaos MediaMaster Pro software across these twelve countries. The new arrangement will ensure that Arkaos produ

UK - Christie has launched the Christie Virtual Remote projector app, providing an alternative to the standard IR remote control. Designed for the Android operating system, Christie Virtual Remote provides wireless control of all Christie 3-chip DLP projectors in the popular Christie M Series and Christie J Series projector families.

Christie Virtual Remote is suitable for applications including live events, trade shows, and projection mapping. Users in fixed installation applications such as boardrooms and classrooms, houses of worship, government facilities, and museums will also en

UK - The organisers of PLASA London 2013, which takes place at ExCeL London from 6-9 October 2013, have revealed the first entertainment lighting and stage technology sessions in its hotly anticipated Professional Development Programme. The packed programme offers four days of free sessions that give visitors a glimpse of the technology behind the world's most spectacular live shows, and most talked about events and venues.

All sessions in these streams are presented by leading experts in entertainment technology, with two new theatres dealing exclusively in entertainment lighting and

USA - PLASA has announced eight finalists in the sixth annual Rock Our World Awards, to be presented at the PLASA Cocktail & Awards Reception at LDI 2013. The Rock Our World Awards were created to honour ground-breaking achievement by PLASA members and to acknowledge the genius of both the creator of the technology and the designer or integrator who applies it in a real world environment.

The finalists for the sixth annual Rock Our World Awards are:

GBLOCK - Gallagher Staging and Productions, Inc.

GCT (Guy Cable Tensioner) - Tomcat USA.

Mbox Extreme Media Server as

Aberdeen-based events and rental company, Granite City Events has invested in Highlite Internationals DMT P12.5 Pixel Mesh Video Screen. Company owner Barry Sheriffs says: "We have been looking at video/pixel wall screen products for a while now; it was brought to my attention about the new Highlite DMT P12.5 Pixelmesh, which is priced within the budget we had to spend, so a demo was requested".

Malcolm Burlow and Dave Drane of Highlite UK brought eight panels of the P12.5 screen to the Stonehaven warehouse to do a full demonstration. "It was great to see and also for us to us

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