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Absen: The video tile manufacturer showed off their wide array of products in various pixel pitches. New to the game this year was their X5 product, a 5.2mm out-door-rated video tile that snaps into place with the tile next to it.

AC Lighting: Jands consoles, ArKaos vi-sualization software and more. On display was the lightweight Chroma-Q Color One 100, an LED Par fixture with an RGBA col-or system. Added this year was the Studio One 100 — an all-white LED fixture with variable color temperature.

Acass: They offer Modlock LED, a new kind of modular, interlocking LED display system designed to connect seamlessly with their staging products in different configurations. Modlock LED components are designed to go together easily and work every time.

ADJ: A beautifully lit booth showed off several new fixtures including the Revo 4 IR, COB Cannon Wash Pearl and WiFLY Cha-meleon. The Vizi Beam 16RX hybrid fixture was also impressive. With a Philips 16R lamp, it’s plenty bright, and it moves very fast.

Aeson: This company displayed a great line of LED tiles for multiple applications. Their new IP65-rated 3.9mm screen was on display with its 5600 NITS output. It comes in 20-inch squares. Each contain four square modules (10 inches per side) with magnetic fasteners, allowing for easy removal/replacement.

Altman Lighting: The Phoenix series of ellipsoidal fixtures was featured prom-inently, including a zoomable model. The Pegasus Fresnel series included six- and eight-inch LED models in different color temperatures. A 130W LED work light with 10,000 lumens and a tungsten look is avail-able now.

Analog Way: One of the industry lead-ers in video switchers and similar devic-es, they showed off the new VIO4K-V701. Referred to as the “Swiss army knife” for video processing, this unit was designed to take any type of video signal in and spit anything out effortlessly, including 4K files.

Antari: This maker of foggers, hazers and other atmospheric elements released the S500, their latest high output faux snow making machine. Besides silent op-eration, it has a DMX-able pan control on the nozzle as well as fans. Users can ex-tend the main unit to the spray nozzle via a 10-meter hose.

APG Display: They built a large NEC 55-inch X554UN video wall that promises easy installation and sharp, 4K-resolution. Also on display: the Green Hippo Par4Keet video player with multi-screen configu-rability. APG sub-rents video walls with full technical support, installation services and logistics provided.

Applied Electronics: A one-stop shop for anything hanging from (and includ-ing) a roof. They displayed truss, portable crank stands, rigging, hoists and control-lers, among other gear. What fascinated me was the line array tower they make for hanging P.A. systems where there’s no rig-ging points.

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It was another bountiful year in Las Vegas as the LDI (Live Design International) show hit the Conven-tion Center for the fourth consecutive year. Over 10,000 people were on the floor to check out more than 350 different exhibitor booths over the three-day span the floor was open. From Lighting to La-

sers, Staging to Scenery, it was all here on display last Oct 23-25. One didn’t have to search far for all the cool little gizmos we all need to keep the shows running. New inventions as well as improved ver-sions of old standards peaked my technical interest as much as the great new lighting products. Below, in no particular order, is a quick synopsis of the products that stood out to me at this year’s LDI.

Astera: Released the AX-7, a full col-or-mixing wireless-enabled LED PAR with the ability to receive either LumenRadio or WDMX for control. Featuring RGBW mix-ing, the unit has additional lenses for wall washing or floodlight applications. Run-ning up to 20 hours, it has TRUE1 power in and throughs for charging.

Atmospheres: They can set the mood for any event or public place by supplying video content that reflects three catego-ries - live music films, ambient films and moods films. Designed for play on state of the art visual presentation equipment, multiple HD and 4K displays, LED walls or HD and 4K projectors.

Avolites: The big news was the addition of the Arena lighting console. The latest improvements in the effects engine make it the best I have ever seen. In a separate booth, the AI media server, with all its bells and whistles and great edge blending ca-pabilities, was on display to teach the “easy to learn” system.

AV Stumpfl: These makers of fine me-dia servers, control solutions and pro-jection screens showed off their Wings Engine Raw (6). This is the world’s first three-stream, uncompressed 4K60 media server. Also released was the FHD media player, which is now shipping.

Ayrton: Displaying a wall of their new Dream Panel Twin fixtures, this company rocked the floor. This square fixture has an LED screen on one side and a block of LEDs on the other. The MagicDot-R and Cos-moPix-R LED fixtures were also on hand for people who somehow hadn’t seen these great fixtures yet.

Barbizon: This company stocks over 20,000 products and were on hand to offer up their resources for sales, service, instal-lation, and integration of lighting, dim-ming, grip equipment, and accessories for the Performing Arts. They continue to be sponsors of the Behind the Scenes Happy Hour, helping those in need.

Barco/High End Systems: The SolaSpot 2000 and the SolaWash Pro 2000 fixtures made quite the impact as HES included these new fixtures in their All-LED reper-toire. Designers lined up to play around with the Hog 4 line of consoles. The HES team was also on hand to offer media serv-er training as well.

BBS Lighting: In their booth they showed the Pipeline LED System. These are LEDs inside cylindrical form factor seg-ments. They come in one, two, three and four-foot lengths. The Pipeline remote phosphor promises to serve as a high CRI soft light that is controllable and dimma-ble with no color shift or flickering. Good dimmer curve at 0-10 percent.

Blizzard Lighting: Hanging no few-er than six new products from a massive two-tiered ModTruss structure, these folks came ready to party. They featured a great range of effects lights such as the new Snake Eye and Blockhead Big Eye fixtures. The Kryo Morph moving yoke light showed a great bright beam.

Bulbtronics: On display was the full line of FlexAray LED products, which come in static white, tunable white, and RGBAW versions. Also featured was FlexAray Neo-

Bend, a flexible silicone LED tube with 330° of light distribution. Compatible with all their LED tapes, it mimics neon without the bulky electronics or glass.

Canto: The Italian maker of fine spot-lights was on hand to show off their three latest models. The company offers a 2000 MSR as well as a 1500W units that are bright, yet lightweight. Particularly im-pressive was the Astro 3200, with a 200W LED light source that can produce a 3200K light output with a high CRI.

ChamSys: This company showed off their brilliant little model, the MagicQ MQ80. This extremely powerful little desk spits out 24 universes of DMX with no need for additional processors like an NPU. Using the powerful software as the others, it has 10 playback faders, 20 Executor buttons and built-in UPS, and it can fit in a bag.

Chauvet: With an eye-dazzling booth, Chauvet displayed the Strike 4, an LED-based mole/scoop with a tungsten look. The Ovation series E-910FC adds a lime emitter to the RGBA color system. COLO-Rado Solo is a single 60W cell RGBW LED with a 6-72° zoom. There’s a new ÉPIX touring model as well.

Christie: These makers of fine projec-tors had a few items from their large prod-uct line. Shown in particular was the new H series, which featured a 12,000-lumen DLP projector. This slick model comes with Integrated Warping capabilities.

City Theatrical: The go-to shop for all your accessories, I saw every beam angle accessory one needs for most convention-al fixtures. They also put their new SHoW Baby wireless DMX system center stage, and featured the Qolor Point, a battery op-erated LED fixture with an IP65 rating that comes with SHoW Baby wireless DMX.

Clay Paky: Showed off the Scenius line of fixtures and the Spheriscan, both of which were just released. The Hepikos is a Sharpy wash light on steroids with a cool 4-way prism. Most impressive was their new Strip light, the Spazial. The fixture tilts and offers individual control of each cell; users can pan them left to right to fine-tune the focus.

Clear-Com: The industry leader of pro-fessional intercom for live events stepped up their game considerably. On display was their latest innovations in wireless belt packs. The addition of a single wire-less headset with a built in controls that do not need an exterior belt pack was a pretty clever invention.

CM Hoists: Columbus McKinnon showed off their range of electric hoists for the entertainment and commercial business. These included the Lodestar D8 model, capable of lifting 1000 kg and geared for quieter operation and to meet demanding international standards.

CreateLED: This company boasts a full line of LED tiles for any type screen. Their patented Air series of products offers bril-liant colors and an easy standard design. Extremely impressive was The 1.9mm Air-MAG U and the 2.6mm version of their ultra HD series.

Creative Stage Lighting: They showed off their line of VMB crank lifts as well as other products they sell. Their great new customer portal and on-line store features an updated design for mobile devices, ac-count maintenance features, more prod-ucts, and a cable assembly builder.

CyberHoist: XLNT Advanced Technolo-gies’ industry respected CyberHoist II sys-tem was unveiled at LDI. The same variable speed process is utilized. Built with new hardware and software modifications to handle the rigors of live event use. A new controller for the hoists is also available.

d3: They revealed the smaller d3 2x2 plus. It is the same software as the other d3 products but is suited to smaller events and theaters. It can control 256 universes. Also released were new VFC cards for the 4x4 Pro model. This now enables the 4x4 to play back 16 layers of full HD video from one media server.

Database Works: They showed the world their new RFID product, which is a sure game changer for all rental houses. They have a new system for counting gear in and out of your shop using simple RF frequencies that are read via an encoder attached to every cable. Great time chang-er to the old bar scan devices.

Dataton: Their Watchout 6 system proves to be one of the most advanced ways to accomplish 3D video mapping. The device includes video playback from multiple sources, 3D media and modeling

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Absen X5 LED tiles

AC Lighting Chroma-Q Color One 100

ADJ’s booth

Aeson 3.9mm outdoor screen

Altman Lighting’s zoomable Phoenix

Analog Way’s VIO 4K multiformat converter

Antari’s booth

Applied Electronics’ line array tower

Astera AX-7

Avolites Arena console

AV Stumpfl Wings Engine Raw (6)

Ayrton’s Dream Panel Twin

Barbizon’s booth

Barco/HES’ SolaWash and SolaSpot display

BBS Pipeline

Blizzard Snake Eyes

Chauvet’s booth

Christie H Series 1DLP projector

City Theatrical’s beam control accessories

Clay Paky Spazial

Clear-Com’s new wireless products

CM Lodestar D8 hoist

CreateLED’s booth

Creative Stage Lighting’s VMB lifts

CyberHoist by XLNT

d3’s mini-Super Bowl Halftime display

Database Works’ RFID system

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as well as previz. It features a 3D projec-tor device that assists in programming and lining up complex projections.

Doug Fleenor Design: The electronics and data wizards showed their full range of products, including the NODE2, a wall box with Power Over Ethernet that can ac-cept data input and output with the uni-verse selectable on the wall box itself. Sup-ports sACN, Art-Net, and others. Buttons can also lock to prevent tampering.

Drape Kings: Not just the premier pipe and drape company in the US, they had a whole line of gadgets on display. Various models of kabuki systems are available for the user to choose the correct one for their needs.

Draper: This company makes perhaps the best projection screens. Wall mounted, ceiling mounted, recessed — you name it. Their optically seem-less TecVision screen boasts it can stretch 69’ without a single

seam. Their portable models included the StageScreen and FocalPoint lines.

DTS: Gave us the EVO this year. A hybrid moving light that is a beam and a spot. A 2°-39° beam is available. CMY color, color wheel, linear CTO, gobos are included. The dual prism system allows for cool anima-tions and kaleidoscope effects. Extreme brightness guaranteed with an Osram HRI 440W bulb.

Elation: Showed off perhaps the best programmed booth on the floor. They offered the award winning Platinum FLX moving hybrid and the Emotion, a moving head projector. The crowd was captivated by the new series of ACL products. Partic-ularly impressive was the ACL Roller 360 with infinite pan and tilt.

Enttec: Once again my favorite purvey-ors of Steampunk were on hand to show everyone just how easy it is to control thousand of pixels. They offer lighting con-trollers, LED luminaires and custom light-ing solutions to all your LED pixel needs. The Pixelator and the Pixel Tape driver worked magically.

ETC: Displaying their series of LED con-ventional light fixtures including their line of Variable white light fixtures. On hand were plenty of people to teach the ETC line of lighting consoles from beginners to advanced students.

Eurotruss/ChainMaster: These two combined forces to show off their latest truss products and moving smart chain hoists leveling truss pieces in the center of the booth. Their world renowned Vario Lifts were on display showing off their variable speed functions through the ChainMaster controller.

EXE Technology: The EXE Rise family of chain hoists was on display. They manufac-ture 12 different models for your needs. An optional load cell attachment is available, allowing the user to see the weight being lifted right from the actual motor. Chain bag sizes vary allowing for up to 60 meter of chain per motor.

Gallagher Staging: Joey Gallagher was on hand to chat about his company’s se-ries of G Blocks. These act as a heavy-du-ty ballast to support anything you do not want to tip over. The 36-inch cube weighs in at 3,500 pounds and can bolt to most any truss. Joey was also on hand to talk about the crewing company, site and app, TourReady.

Global Truss/Duratruss: Their ground-supported booth showed just how cool and easy it is to erect a unique truss sculpture. New products such as their lifts, the DT Dyno wheel, torm racks were on display. Personally, I loved the line of truss covers they have come up with for vertical standing truss.

GLP: German Light Products showed off their new X4 Atom, a single source 15w LED in a mini par body. Complete with zoom and RGB color mixing these fixtures can attach to each other to make a grid. Their Cosmic truss division showed off the versatility of the U-Torm pipes for hanging fixtures.

GTek: Displayed the Innopix 5, a 5.9mm LED wall. With the ability to curve 45° ei-ther direction, the tiles are IP65-rated for use in all environments. The product also features TRUE1 in and throughs, 120° viewing angle, and 4,000cd/m2 (Lux) of brightness. The tiles are one half meter square and weigh 99 pounds each.

Harrington Hoists: This company makes about everything you need to lift anything. On display were their brand of ½ ton and 1 ton electric chain hoists available for the entertainment business. Hand winches and wire rope winches are available.

Doug Fleenor Design’s NODE2

Drape Kings’ Kabuki system

Elation’s ACL Roller 360

Enttec Pixelator

ETC’s white light ellipsoidals

Eurotruss teamed with ChainMaster

EXE Rise with load cell attachment

Joey Gallagher from Gallagher Staging

Global Truss and Duratruss’ cool shapes

GLP X4 Atom

GTek booth and team

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Hubbell Connectors: On hand was one of the world’s largest manufacturers of AC connectors. They demonstrated their new circuit tester for twist lock connectors. Also shown were their new Kellems grips and its 3.8 amp USB power charging cen-ters- energy efficient receptacles filling a great need in our current world.

IATSE: Several chapters were on hand to discuss any labor needs anyone has for their theatrical shows. Supplying battery chargers for all the phones on the floor was just another way of showing how this union cares for all the workers in our biz.

Image Engineering: This laser family showed off all their latest toys, especial-ly their Light Vector laser projectors, be-ing controlled through the revolutionary Beam Composer software. LDs can now program and run their own lasers from a DMX lighting desk. The LV system can also be run from a Pangolin controller.

InfiLED: These manufacturers of LED display tiles showed their new product, the IL-RSS-ORD7. Magnetic LED modules that are very easy to replace in case of an LED failure. Easy and ultra-fast to build a screen with multiple size floor frames. In-duction screen for interaction display. IP65 rating.

Inner Circle Distribution: Showed their revolutionary new light/video product — the IPIX DB1. This fixture combines a soft edge wash light with an HD screen. The screen acts like a giant gobo as 15 Fresnels in each panel shoot out light beams from the video panel. Individual panels connect to form a grid.

Kvant: The photons were flying at the Kvant Laser booth, where the company was showing off their line of Spectrum lasers, which offer IP-65 rated enclosures. Featured powerful networking features in-cluding automatic color calibration across networked units and built-in Wi-Fi for monitoring performance and setup.

Le Maitre: This premier maker of fog and similar accessories showed off it’s Artic Snow maker model as well as the Ma5ter, a devise capable of shooting out 5 flame jets from one device. The MVS Hazer, a small portable model was on display along with many other fog and haze devices.

Leprecon: This longtime manufacturer of lighting consoles and dimmers brought out their new XC 350 lighting console. The LPC software base provides an easy to use interface and new XC features. Big encoder wheels make it simple to change parame-ters on ICBF functions.

LightParts: Continues to flourish by fixing all your tired but still worthy gear. They can repair most fixtures and consoles including your old Hog 2 and grandMA1 series of desks. They also sell refurbished gear for a fraction of buying new models, This includes slightly used Hog 4 consoles and High End fixtures.

Lightronics: Not only does this com-pany have a huge inventory of LED prod-ucts, they now have perhaps the simplest controller I have ever seen for controlling architectural lighting. The Unity SC810 is a compact 10-fader unit that can run 512 channels of DMX and recall 18 scenes with fade times. Can hang on a wall.

Lightwave International: Displayed a wide range of products including their moving head fixture, the Phenom. Very

Impressive is their new line of full color laser fixtures called the Lixel. Designers can now write their own effects and pixel map the fixture using DMX or video feeds from their console. Lighting designers can create spectacular laser effects in endless geometric patterns or even full pixel map-ping!

Litepanels: These makers of LED fix-tures released the Brick, a compact and powerful variable color fixture that can withstand any elements. This fixture was displayed quite wet in a tank where it was continuously showered with water. Also shown was their Sola 6C Fresnel and other LED products for film use.

Look Solutions: Carrying on in their tradition of building new smoke products, they showed off 3 tiny smoke machines including a hand held unit. The CryoGate can create low laying fog from any pro fog machine that uses the right fluid. It utilizes a common high-pressure CO2 tank.

Lycian: The spotlight manufacturer was on site showing off several models. The newest was a prototype they referred to as model #1299, which utilizes a miniature xenon model with heat sinks. Expected to included as a standard in this model is a di-chroic color changing module and dimmer controlled by DMX.

MA Lighting: A.C.T. showed off the MA2 series and dot2 consoles released last year. New to the arsenal, the MA Network Switch from MA Lighting provides a full lighting control solution. The combination of console, switch, and networking devic-es simplifies the setup and management of lighting networks.

Madrix: Located in the Inner Circle Dis-tribution booth, Madrix showed off their system of LED pixel management. The Madrix 3 software runs off of Windows platforms. In front of us was a wall of pixels attached to the system to show how easy it is to map your effects and crunch your channel count.

Martin: The brightest LED strobe on the market has been released. The white Atomic 3000 LED model complete with in-ternal LEDs for eye candy came out in the same size shell as its xenon bulb prede-cessor. Scrollers easily attach via a built in PSU on the back. Painfully bright at 5600K color temp.

Mega Systems Inc.: Showed off their new fixtures from the Mega-Lite Axis se-ries including the Axis Grid and Axis Splash models of LED lights as well as the Axis Beam 2R, a small hard edge mover. Also shown were fixtures from PR Lighting, Di-Color LED panels, PLUSTRUSS and the RG-BLink video processors.

ModTruss: The hands down coolest structure on the floor was assembled by this group. The two-tiered, ground-sup-ported structure built entirely of this unique truss product went up without the use of any hoists or cranes. It was truly an engineering marvel that set the tone for the party atmosphere provided on site.

Nationwide Video: They’re a whole-sale sub-rental company for the pro A/V industry. With a full inventory of profes-sional-grade video, camera, projection, lighting, and audio, they serve the needs of production houses only, and do not rent directly to end users. The company has seven locations across the US.

Neal Preston Exhibition: A.C.T Light-ing provided the floor with a room for ev-eryone to get out of the noise and enjoy some historic photography. Built like an expansive museum, the project includ-ed headphones that could steer viewers through a visual journey of the lives of rock stars as captured by this artist.

Harting’s connectors

Hubbell Connectors on display

IATSE helped visitors recharge

The Image Engineering / Light Vector booth

InfiLED’smagnetic tile

Inner Circle Distribution’s IPIX DB1

Kvant Spectrum

Le Maitre MVS hazer

LightParts, the “fix-it” company

Lightronics’ Unity SC810

Lightwave International’s lasers on parade

Litepanels’ waterproof Brick

Look Solutions’ Cryo Gate for low-lying fog

Martin Atomic 3000 LED strobe

Mega-Lite Axis fixture

Neal Preston’s rock ‘n’ roll photo exhibition

MA Lighting’s dot2 console

ModTruss’ distinctive booth

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Neutrik: This popular connector com-pany isn’t resting on its laurels as the best AC connector manufacturer for lighting fixtures. They brought out their whole line of different signal connectors as well. Daz-zling the tech minded was the showing of the unprecedented 10-pole XLR connec-tor.

Novalight: These purveyors of large format theatrical light fixtures is at it again with the release of their Nova-scope fixture. This light features a cool kaleido-scope effect that is bright enough to daz-zle the masses in any large arena or stadi-um. CMY, gobos and a great strobe on this powerful fixture.

OmniSistem: Had a structure built from their TrussSistems line of truss on display along with several types of light fixtures. These included the new line of OnyxPro moving head LED products, as well as the Magnum9 LED pars. The Colorblinder 150 is an LED strip light series that you can uniquely hang in an array.

Oracle LED: Showed off their crystal looking Black Widow Carbon 6 LED tiles that boast of the LightLink technology. The speed and ease with which these screens come together is very practical and road worthy. The tiles were nominated for a Par-nelli Award for Indispensable Technology in the new video product category.

Osram: These manufacturers showed that they do a whole lot more than just make Light bulbs and own Clay Paky. The Kreios 80W Fresnel boasts 7000 lumens and now has a RGBW version. Unveiled was the Kreios LED FL, a 90W high perfor-mance work light with an IP65 rating and a warm tungsten feel.

Pangolin Laser Systems: They wowed passersby with their great arrays of beams. High power, with an integrated FB4 net-work control system proved easy to pro-gram with. The show with LaserNet and Lady Light products was a huge hit as a constant stream of visitors stopped by.

Parasol Systems: This manufacturer specializes in moving light fixtures along a truss via a trolley system. They teamed up with Lightwave Research this year to mount moving laser heads to their rotating circle truss to create a vortex of beams with the light source itself in constant motion.

Pathway Connectivity: Gave us the Choreo controller, a wall-mountable unit that allows recording and playback of lighting information in a powerful yet us-er-friendly interface. With a 7-inch touch-screen, it can be a playback station, or be locked for access to just a few looks. Per-fect for schools, auditoriums, ballrooms.

Philips Color Kinetics: Philips Color Kinetics showed off various LED products. Particularly interesting were their mesh products of small LEDs that could wrap around columns or hang as panels. Frost-ed clear panels diffused the LEDs for a sexy look at any event.

Philips Strand and Selecon: Strand featured their new 500ML light console: which runs on a different platform from the 250 models. Selecon showed us their PL Series Mark II LED luminaires featuring a single LED array. This series includes pro-file, Fresnel, and cyc models.

Philips Vari-Lite: On display was the Vari-Lite VL4000 BeamWash with its bright white collimated beam as well as the 4000 spot. Two new Showline luminaires were available to check out — the SL Beam 300FX and SL PunchLite 220.

PixelFLEX: With a wide variety of FLEX LED products available, they picked up a Parnelli Indispensable Technology award for their new FLEXCurtain HD, a 12 mm product that folds accordion style into a road case. They also showed off the FLEX-Lite product with pixel pitches ranging from 3.9mm up to 12mm.

PRG: Their GroundControl Remote Followspot System made its debut. They mounted a camera on a 48,000 lumen Bad Boy moving light. The camera sends a sig-nal down to a remote control looking de-vice backstage where an operator sits. The operator follows his target on the stage (through an attached monitor) the fixture in the air follows the movement. Control can come from a console or the operator.

Prolyte: Displayed their line of truss and Pro Lyft chain hoists while gearing up for their 25th anniversary in Frankfurt next spring. They added a crowd control bar-ricade to their product line. Each module connects effortlessly with the next one. Curving and bending at angles is simple.

R&R Cases: They were on hand to show why they claim to make the world’s stron-gest road cases by showing off a great designed production work case. They also build touring cable trunks, rack mount boxes. Cases custom made to fit your chain hoists and anything you have the need to have built- they can do.

RC4 Wireless: These originators of tiny dimmers wireless dimmers and wireless DMX devices for theatrical use are at it again. They have just debuted the tiny RC4 Magic DMXpix. A pixel driver designed to easily break up lines of LED tape and con-trol over 1000 RGB pixels (3000 ch) with only 9-500 channels of DMX.

Robe: They certainly know how to throw a party, as evidenced by the crowd packed at the bar and for the live show. The new BMFL wash fixture debuted along with their new Square: which combines video projection, pixel animations, beam effects and LED wash light all in a continu-ous rotation movement fixture.

Robert Juliat: Long regarded as a pre-mier manufacturer of spotlights, they also offer some other fixtures such as the Dalis, a new innovation in LED cyc lights. With asymmetrical reflectors and eight individ-ual colored LEDs to break up the fixture, a unique color system offers a smooth wall wash for up or down lighting.

Roe Visual: On display were their hy-brid screen along with the series of Black Onyx tiles. New was the Vanish 25 video tile, an ultra transparency LED wall de-signed to be seen through or have light beams shine through it. They have de-signed a 90°curved tile as well to round out the corners of their screens.

Rosco: Adding to the collection of small LED fixtures is the PICA cube designed by Black Tank. This 2.5-inch 2W LED fixture is ideal for storefront windows and hiding in small places. Rosco also demonstrated their wide variety of haze and smoke gen-erating devices.

Rose Brand: On hand to offer up solu-tions to any theatrical drape needs you may have. On top of scenic materials they also offer a line of pulleys and traveling hardware necessary to rig any of your the-atrical scenery. They are the exclusive US distributor for gear such as traveler tracks, from Triple E tracks in the U.K.

SeaChanger: These fine makers of col-or changers for conventional fixtures re-leased the Prodigy at LDI. Designed for use with fixtures that utilize a white LED light source. The dichroic glass filters utilize CMY + G for color mixing. They also offer models used with tungsten and 575 watt HMI lamps.

Serapid: This producer of stage lift sys-tems was on hand to show off their dual Telescoping Masts system for use lifting trusses, PA arrays, and any scenery on a portable stage where rigging is not an op-tion. They also showed off a model of their LinkLift stage system designed to raise/re-veal products and performers.

SGM: Once again they make a splash at LDI with their waterproof lighting prod-ucts. Particularly noticeable was the G1 Beam fixture. An IP65 rated small fixture, it has built in wireless DMX capabilities and runs off a battery. With a white LED source, it has a color wheel and great gobo projec-tion skills.

SHS Global: These folks showed a pleth-ora of great products starting off with the wireless TourPro Crystal Display 3+ video tiles. A slick moving motor system using CyberHoists captivated passersby. TourPro Storm strobes in full color and white mod-els were shown.

SL Power: They specialize in making

power supplies for all kinds of products. They are making a big mark in the design and construction of power supplies for LED products. On display was the LU500, a single output 500 watt AC to DC PSU built for LED applications. User can combine two for a 1000W source.

Stageline: Representatives were on hand to discuss all of Stageline’s line of load bear-ing mobile hydraulic stages including the re-cently released SAM 575. Parked right in the center of the convention center was their small SL 100 portable stage, which can hold 6500 lbs. and withstand 80 mph winds.

Stagemaker: The manufacturers of fine chain hoists now make more than six sep-arate models. This includes their variable speed line of hoists, which can be run by the Raynok system easily. They make their own brand of controllers and power distribution systems for their hoists.

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OmniSistem’s booth

Oracle LED

Osram bulbs on display

Pangolin Laser Systems

Parasol Systems teamed with Lightwave International

Philips Color Kinetics

Philips VL4000 BeamWash

PixelFLEX FLEXCurtain on left and FLEXLite on right

PRG GroundControl Remote Followspot System

Prolyte barricade

RC4 Wireless’ products

Robe’s PATT 2013 tungsten retro soft light

Rose Brand’s pulley system

Serapid Telescoping Masts

Roe Visual curved screen tile

SGM G1 Beam makes a splash

SHS Global featured their lighting and rigging products

Stageline SL 100 stage

Stagemaker SR5 Hoist

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Staging Concepts: This company makes portable staging and decks for many applications. Celebrating their 25th year in business, they showed off three types of decks they manufacture in partic-ular. This includes a black polyvinyl model as well as a clear acrylic stage deck and the new grey colored model.

Swisson: Showing off their variety of wireless DMX devices was just the tip of the iceberg for these manufacturers of quality DMX products. They showed their latest in opto-splitter devices with an A/B model, the 2:8. This splitter takes in 2 sepa-rate universes of DMX and the user assigns which one to each of 8 outputs.

Syncrolite: Most impressive was the new SyncroMite fixture. This company has added a smaller gun to their collection of bright beam arc lights. With a built in power supply, dichroic colors, gobos, and a 6-30° zoom able beam angle this beauty is slick. Did I mention it kicks out 48,000 lumens on top of all that?

TAF: Truss Aluminum Factory built a four-post truss grid with self-climbing mo-tors to attract the crowd. On display were their line of torm racks for light fixtures as well as crank lifts, stage decks, clamps and brackets for fixtures and truss. They also showed off their latest barricades at the booth.

Take1 Insurance: These guys were on hand to educate us on why it’s so import-ant to have sufficient coverage in these days of stage accidents and lawsuits. They have the knowledge to protect you and your company from any unforeseeable problems stemming from equipment fail-ure to nature’s wrath.

Techni-Lux: This company carries about every product you need for a great light show. Brands of LED tape were on dis-play but what caught me eye was the line of EHRGEIZ Helios LED fixtures that run on batteries. Get this- they accept Makita tools rechargeable battery. Need a bat-tery- go to Home Depot.

The Light Source: Tucked away in the side by the Novalites booth I found one of my favorite companies and purveyors of cool accessories. Besides their wide range of Mega (and other) clamps they have great tools and the hard to find bits one need for traveler tracks, air walls and hard-ware bits.

TMB: Showed off many of their accesso-ries as well as LED fixtures from the Firefly bulbs to LED battens. But what they were proud of is their EZ-LAN by ProPlex. A sim-ple, powerful Gigabit Ethernet switch that distributes up to four discrete networks.

It has16 ports assignable to four 4-port groups.

Tomcat: The greatest truss innova-tion on the floor was by these guys. They showed off the EVO, a prototype for a col-lapsible 12-inch box truss. It folds up like nothing you have ever seen into a small footprint for travel. Scheduled for January release, they will work on a 20-inch model next.

Tyler Truss: Reps from the company were on hand to show off the Tyler GT se-ries of truss, they showed up with an an-gle bracket and a 30-inch long section of their famous truss, just to show the masses that they can build any custom size you re-quire. New rotating spigots are available.

Upstaging: They were on hand to show off the Saber. This dual line of LEDs designed to be run as shafts of video or light were extremely bright and could be locked in place to assemble various sized and widths of products. They can be run with DMX or fed a video signal and pixel mapped easily.

Ushio: This company showed off the prototype of its latest Fresnel made by Zylight. The F8-300 LED fixture boasts a silent version that utilizes passive cooling instead of any fans to deliver the bright-ness of a normal 600W HMI Fresnel. They also displayed the F8-200 “flat Fresnel” for the first time.

Vectorworks: The premier CAD pro-gram for the entertainment biz announced the acquisition of ESP, the software com-pany known for their previsualization ca-pabilities. Vectorworks now makes it even easier to take a rendered CAD drawing and attach a light console to it to turn on lights and write lighting cues.

Wenger/JR Clancy: These manufactur-ers of theatrical equipment from acoustic baffling to wire winch systems to theater seating were on hand to show off their latest wares for performing facilities. Their Transform Motorized Acoustical Banner System was on display.

Whirlwind: Showing once again why their power Distribution products are top of the line, they did not stop there. They showed off their new modular rack mounted motor control panels. Each slim panel controls two individual chain hoists through an easy to use control system.

Wildfire: Long known as the industry leader in UV treatments of black light art-work, the team was on hand to show off the effects they could make on several dif-ferent paintings. The crew was on hand to show the instant changes to painted scen-ery that could be accomplished with their UV LED fixtures.

XLNT: The CyberHoist II was shown for the first time in America. This new incarna-tion of the variable speed hoist was aug-mented by a motion controller, worldwide multi-voltage power supply (200-440V) and absolute positioning up to 1mm. A network controlled E-stop and dead man’s handle are available.

XSF: Texas-based Xtreme Structures & Fabrication built a nifty ground support system in their booth. They lay claim to be-ing the premier provider of standardized truss sizes, as well as custom stages, roof systems, hardware, rigging, risers, plat-forms, and exhibit components.

ZFX: Widely known as a flying compa-ny, they released the eZ-Hoist system this year. On display at LDI were several styles of their stocked hoists, which can be con-trolled on most common theatrical auto-mation systems. The eZ-Trolley system was in use to show us how to move scenery or video walls easily.

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Swisson’s A/B opto-splitter

Syncrolite SyncroMite fixtures

TAF (Truss Aluminum Factory)

Take1 Insurance’s Marcus Paxton and Scott Carroll

Techni-Lux EHRGEIZ Helios LED mover

The Light Source showed its Mega clamps and others

Tomcat’s EVO collapsable truss

Tyler Truss

Upstaging featured their Saber strips

Ushio showed the Zylight pop-open fresnel

Vectorworks’ booth also featured newly acquired ESP

Wenger/JR Clancy’s motorized banner

Whirlwind motor control module

XLNT’s CyberHoist II

XSF (Xtreme Structures & Fabrication)

ZFX eZ-Trolley system