Leyard Europe announced its Planar DirectLight Essential Series, a line of fine pixel pitch LED video walls delivering incredible visual performance for indoor environments with abundant ambient light. This latest line of fine pixel pitch LED video walls introduces a solution that is well-suited for budget-conscious customers who require high-quality imagery, strengthening the DirectLight family’s position of delivering the finest visual performance. The addition of the DirectLight Essential Series rounds out the DirectLight family, presenting customers with a wider range of high-performance ultra-fine pitch LED video walls for indoor applications. The DirectLight Essential Series offers 27-inch cabinets available in 0.7,…
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Astera has launched QuikPunch, the latest in its innovative ‘Quik’ series, which started with the QuikSpot launched at the end of 2024. QuikPunch delivers precise, high-quality light via its fresnel lens, featuring a 13º to 60º zoom, with no stray light and 8,000 lux at 3 meters. It is optimised for fast set-up and practical operation and comes complete with a battery-driven PrepBox and ChargingPlate. It delivers Astera’s unique colour science, based on its high-colour-rendering RGBMA Titan LED Engine – but as it happens with QuikSpot, QuikPunch adds OutputGain for deeper colour saturates. It ‘punches’ high-quality light while consuming just…
HARMAN Professional Solutions has appointed Sebastien Laffoux as Director of Lighting Sales for North America. In this role, Laffoux will drive strategic growth and lead the sales organisation for HARMAN’s portfolio of professional lighting solutions, with a focus on expanding market share across the live entertainment, install, and architectural sectors. Laffoux brings more than 15 years of senior leadership experience in the professional lighting and entertainment technology space. Prior to joining HARMAN, he served as Vice President of Sales at ARRI, where he oversaw B2B and SMB sales operations across North and South America. Under his leadership, ARRI’s sales revenue…
tvONE will showcase the new 1RU version of the CALICO PRO video processor (C7-PRO-1200) and its MX Series of Hippotizer Media Servers at InfoComm 2025 (tvONE Booth 3935). This year, tvONE is exhibiting alongside ACT Entertainment, its exclusive North American distributor, located across the aisle in Booth 3943, sharing ACT’s vision of comprehensive solutions for lighting, sound, and video. The tvONE and ACT teams invite InfoComm visitors to experience both the original CALICO PRO and its smaller 1RU version, which are built upon tvONE’s latest patented fifth generation 4K/8K, 10-bit video processing engine, which delivers unparalleled performance and versatility. Both…
Shimokitazawa ReG is a livehouse, or music venue, in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, close to Shinjuku and Shibuya districts. At 230-capacity standing, Shimokitazawa ReG is an intimate venue, which only enhances the excitement of seeing some of Japan’s brightest independent bands there. The PA has been designed to be felt as well as heard, in a full mind-body experience. To deliver that feeling, the mixing console had to be a DiGiCo Quantum 338 supplied by Hibino, DiGiCo distributor for Japan. The venue’s size ensures that every audience member has a perfect view of the stage, but it also means that every piece…
Adam Hall Integrated Systems presents its latest solutions for fixed installation applications. Spotlight will be on the LD Systems QUESTRA Design & Management Software and its free V1.3 update, enabling audio, lighting and video solutions to be controlled from a single source. In its 50th anniversary year, the German manufacturer will also be showcasing the multifaceted possibilities of the TICA series, the DQOR SUB outdoor installation subwoofer with integrated Dante, the highly versatile MAILA line array system, as well as providing a first glimpse of upcoming products for integrated AV applications. Adam Hall Integrated Systems at InfoComm 2025: Level 2,…
Morrison Heights Baptist Church is everything you’d expect from its name: theologically conventional and traditionally oriented. But while the church’s services tend towards the expected, there is a refreshingly current take underlying it. Their otherwise conventional worship style, complete with an instrumental mixture of traditional orchestra and modern band, has a state-of-the-art technical foundation. That technical underpinning just became even more modern, thanks to the integration of an array of technology platforms from DiGiCo, KLANG, and Fourier Audio. Installed by Franklin, Tennessee-based Integrated Production Solutions (IPS), the church now has a pair of DiGiCo Quantum338 consoles at front of house…
Martin Audio has substantially strengthened its technical resource with the appointment of the experienced Ben Todd, as Senior Applications Specialist. The role will also encompass the opportunity to intersect with sister brands such as Optimal Audio and TiMax as the wider Focusrite Group Audio Reproduction division gains further ground with coordinated solutions becoming increasingly prevalent in the installation sector. He arrives following an extensive career with Harman Pro, where he was Senior Application Engineer for EMEA, followed by a brief period at HOLOPLOT. Prior to that, Todd was with UK distributor, Sound Technology, for nine years—the last six of which…
Offering powerful features –including a built-in effects generator, soft-patchable controls, and RDM compatibility –the new DMX FX512 from ADJ is an innovative hardware DMX controller that puts intuitive control and powerful programming tools into the hands of even inexperienced users. Designed to streamline workflow and unleash creativity, it is ideal for use in small bars, nightclubs, churches, and entertainment venues, as well as for event production applications. Facilitating control of a full DMX universe, the DMX FX512 is designed for use with up to 32 separate lighting fixtures, utilising up to 18 channels each (maximum total channels: 512). Captivating light…
Powersoft will put the spotlight on Unica T – the company’s cutting-edge new amplifier platform for the live touring market – at 2025’s Prolight + Sound trade show in Guangzhou, China. On stand A16 in Hall 5.2, Powersoft will introduce attendees to the capabilities of Unica T, its first new amplifier platform for live sound since the launch of the celebrated T Series in 2021. PL+S Guangzhou 2025 will serve as the venue for the Chinese debut of both Unica T and Nota – the ultra-compact Nota PoE amplifier unveiled at ISE in January – as well as celebrations marking…
