Matt Hallard has become the latest member of Ayrton’s international sales team. The new recruit assumes the position of Regional Sales Manager for the UK, Ireland, Benelux, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Malta, Greece, Slovenia and Turkey. Matt brings extensive experience of the lighting industry and the European market from a career that spans over twenty years. He first cut his industry teeth with an eight-year period as a production manager on cruise ships, after which Hallard returned to dry land in 2005 to launch a career as a specialist in European sales with some well-known moving light brands. “This was…
Author: James Robertson
Renkus-Heinz has launched a new website focused on providing partners with increased support options, expansive product details, and multiple installation examples across key verticals. Additional technical documentation, including Bim/Revit data, is also available. The site is live at www.renkus-heinz.com. “Over the past few years, Renkus-Heinz has made a point of helping our partners put sound where they want it most,” said Jim Mobley, Vice President of Operations at Renkus-Heinz. “The redesign of the Renkus-Heinz website continues that mission by offering tools that help professional sound experts place sound with precision on an audience.” The site now offers additional documentation and…
Atlona has bolstered its Asia-Pacific (APAC) channel partner network with the appointment of Vichai Trading 1983 as its leading commercial AV partner in Thailand. A division of Vichai Group, the nearly 40-year old AV specialist will represent all commercial AV distribution and training services for Atlona throughout Thailand. Vichai Trading 1983 is an ideal partner given its strength in several of Atlona’s key business verticals, including corporate, education, government and hospitality. The company specializes in providing complete AV solutions of various scale and has a broad, established reseller network throughout Thailand. This makes Vichai Trading 1983 particularly well-positioned to represent…
Completing the new generation of automatic LED projectors developed by Starway, LUSSO is a Spot equipped with a 320W white LED providing an exceptional illumination of 34,900 lux (8 ° @ 5m). It has a zoom range of 8 to 40° supported by a CMY trichromy, 7 color filters + UV, 3200°K, 5600°K, 6500°K CTO correctors. LUSSO has also 10 fixed gobos, 8 rotating gobos, a progressive frost, an iris and 2 superimposable prisms. All this makes LUSSO an extremely powerful and complete projector, with a surprising weight of only 20 kg. en.star-way.com/lusso
ETC launched two new theatrical fixtures as part of a two-day-long international online event. The Source Four LED Series 3 and Desire Fresnel are the perfect pairing for any theatre looking to successfully launch themselves into the modern day with incredible brightness, impressive color mixing, and wireless DMX/RDM features. Source Four LED Series 3 is the third generation of the color mixing LED fixture. When incandescent Source Four fixtures hit the market in 1992, they quickly became an industry favorite. As technology advanced, so did the fixtures. Now boasting an eight-color mixing system that includes deep red LEDs, you’ll be…
When the University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) School of Visual and Performing Arts was looking to update its existing wireless intercom system, the task of finding the right equipment was left in the very capable hands of the program’s veteran Technical Director Steven Burnside. He found the solution he was looking for with Pliant Technologies’ CrewCom wireless intercom system. Steven’s primary goal in upgrading the equipment at ULM School of Visual and Performing Arts was ensuring complete coverage throughout the entire building. “Our main auditorium was built in 1931 and made out of steel and concrete, so we really wanted…
Carousel Digital Signage and mobile device management company Moki have announced a new partnership that will simplify the deployment and management of media player software across multiple operating systems. To be integrated within Carousel Cloud’s CMS, Moki’s cloud-based mobile device platform (MDM) will establish a unified interface for digital signage networks with a diverse mix of media players, and remove the burden of working across different device management interfaces. Moki’s cross-platform benefits means that a systems integrator or network operator can now simultaneously address Android, iOS and BrightSign’s proprietary media player software, for example, instead of logging in and out…
The Korean Community Presbyterian Church of Atlanta has invested in a trio of video mixers and seamless presentation switchers from Analog Way’s new Midra 4K product line to drive projection screens in the main sanctuary and Love Chapel. Genesis Technology of Chantilly, Virginia served as the integrator. “Genesis Technology has partnered with Analog Way on many successful church projects,” notes Seth Teates, Regional Sales Manager for Analog Way. “We are excited to be a part of this new project and employ our new Midra 4K series processors. These are perfect for the house of worship market, offering full 4K 60Hz…
Tomi Björck is one of Finland’s best-known chefs and restaurateurs. With ten restaurants and two bakeries already to his name across Finland, Sweden and Australia, Björck with his wife Minka and three other associates embarked on their latest project in Spring 2020. Lily Lee, in the heart of the Finnish capital of Helsinki, offers a range of unique dishes inspired by Taiwanese cuisine, Hong Kong’s street kitchens and classical Cantonese cooking. Finnish AV integrator, 4Business Oy, installed a Genelec loudspeaker system in the environmentally friendly RAW aluminium finish to enhance the dark, sultry interior with a high class audio experience…
PROLIGHTS will run a series of online webinars on 13–14 of April 2021. The manufacturer will be engaging with its worldwide audience in a series of webinars to showcase products launched in 2020 and 2021, along with the unveiling of three brand-new moving-heads, one moving-beam and two moving-washes. There will also be keynote presentations on Film and TV Lighting products, architectural fixtures, virtual production solutions and the entertainment lighting fixtures range by PROLIGHTS. We are hoping to share insights and inspiration for gaffers, lighting designers, system integrators and students wishing to learn more about the product range. “We are excited…
