City Theatrical’s newest product, RadioScan Spectrum Analyzer, is a 900MHz and 2.4GHz spectrum analyzer that allows users to easily visualize radio energy that is otherwise invisible. With its a hardware dongle and accompanying free software, RadioScan helps users create wireless DMX broadcast plans that optimize the available spectrum, and help prevent interference with nearby mission-critical radio devices. RadioScan shows all nearby radio activity in a chosen frequency, including frequency hopping gear like wireless DMX, as well as Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, wireless headsets, video transmitters, cordless phones, baby monitors, and microwave ovens. RadioScan can display spectrum data either in Spectrogram View…
Author: James Robertson
A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. (AC-ET) has announced that they will be holding webinars in conjunction with multi-award-winning Media Server manufacturer, Green Hippo. Discover more about real-time media playback, 3D production workflow and how Green Hippo’s market leading solutions can help take your creativity to the next level. The first webinar “Introduction to Hippotizer” will be taking place on Thursday 9th July 2020 – 3pm-4pm BST, and will give any overview of the Hippotizer V4+ software and Hippotizer PLAY, the free to download demo version. The second webinar “Get started with SHAPE 3D Mapping” will be taking place on the 16th…
At AUDAC, a team of professionals is continuously looking for new technologies to make our solutions as installer-friendly as possible. As a result of this, our new AMP203 Dante mini stereo amplifier will come equipped with a brand new innovation called TouchLink. TouchLink is an ingenious system that can be used for creating virtual zones by linking multiple TouchLink compatible devices with each other. In AUDAC Touch 2 you can select multiple devices or amplifier channels that should react to the user as one zone. A typical application example is a large open area where multiple (compatible) amplifiers are used.…
Imagine the awe and amazement of a ship’s crew that plied the waters of the Zuiderzee a century or more ago, if somehow, they miraculously found themselves in the same spot on earth today? The expansive salt water bay teaming with fish that led to the North Sea would be gone, the result of the Afsluitdijk, a colossal barrier dam built over a five-year period in the 1920s and 30s. In its place would be a much smaller fresh water lake and 1,500 km² of land that was reclaimed from the sea and is now inhabited by some 400,000 people.…
UK entertainment and architectural lighting control manufacturers Zero 88 and iLight have consolidated and streamlined the production facilities and processes at their shared factory in Cwmbran, Wales. This is to generally boost efficiency and ensure full compliance with the new post Covid-19 health and safety at work directives related to social distancing and general hygiene. Products from both brands – Zero 88 for entertainment and iLight for architectural / built environments – are fully designed and manufactured in the UK and – proudly – a British industry success story. Furthermore, with both brands now operating under the Cooper Lighting Solutions…
The Christie Pandoras Box delivered visual experiences to visitors at a newly completed five-sided 3D immersive visualisation chamber in Qingdao, a major sub-provincial city in China’s Shandong province. Powered by two Pandoras Box Quad Servers and a Pandoras Box Dual Server installed by Christie’s partner Marvel Vision, this state-of-the-art visualisation showcase – known as the Light and Shadow Cube – is an initiative by the Qingdao Municipal Government to spur the growth of 5G high-definition video applications. The Pandoras Box servers are used for the demonstration of spectacular DCI-8K video displayed on LED walls, achieving a total resolution of 8192…
PLASA Show will not take place at Olympia London from 6-8 September this year due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and uncertainty regarding social distancing and lockdown policies. However, PLASA Show will return to Olympia London on 5-7 September 2021. PLASA’s Head of Events Sophie Atkinson commented: “It is of course very disappointing to have to postpone PLASA Show this year which would have been the first in Olympia’s Grand Hall. But I am in no doubt that it is the right thing to do for the industry at this challenging time. We will sorely miss PLASA Show this year…
The end of June saw Brompton Technology take part in one of Europe’s first face-to-face industry events since lockdown, the AV Innovation Days (AVID), organised and hosted by LANG AG at its LANG Academy in Lindlar, Germany. Designed as an accompanying event for InfoComm Connected, LANG hosted the three-day fair with both new and familiar AV technologies on display, whilst adhering to strict hygiene and safety rules. Leading LED panel manufacturers showcased their innovative solutions, with Brompton partnering with INFiLED to demonstrate how its panels have benefitted from Brompton’s highly acclaimed HDR solution. “The event offered a perfect platform to…
Describing GLP’s award-winning X4 Bar 20 as “one of the greatest fixtures ever designed”, E2i Design’s Josh Holowicki had no hesitation in specifying it as an essential component in a major technological upgrade at Church of the Highlands’ Grants Mill broadcast campus in Alabama, USA. His decision was backed by Broadcast Lighting Director, Griffin McCravy. E2i has been a partner with the Church since 2012, providing solutions for their broadcast and extension campuses with lighting and LED video technology. But this latest project was a year in the making due to their determination to select the very best fixtures and…
Following a two-year, €12 million refurbishment, the Central Market of Zaragoza (el Mercado Central de Zaragoza) marked its reopening with a stunning multimedia show that was projected onto its south façade over two nights in February of this year. Entitled ‘The Dream of a Creation’, the first part of the show focussed on the vision of Félix Navarro Pérez, who was commissioned as the building’s chief architect in 1903. The show opened with images of the architect at the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris where he discovered modernist architecture with iron and glass, followed by images of the design, geometric…
