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Live Design Announces Products Of The Year
Live Design has named its 2011-2012 Products of the Year, chosen by panels of prestigious designers and programmers in the disciplines of lighting, sound, and projection.
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Lighting Gear
Lighting Product Of The Year: Synthe FX Luminair For iPad v2
Synthe FX Luminair for iPad has been around a while, but our judges saw fit to award its latest incarnation for making strides in control. ...
Lighting Product Of The Year: Parasol Advanced Lighting Systems Parasol System
Pan, tilt, and…slide? Parasol’s patented technology, developed for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and then used for last season’s finale of American Idol, has come to the masses, with autonomously moving “ParaCarts.” ...
Lighting Product Of The Year: Chromlech Gleamer
Chromlech calls Gleamer a “high-speed, fully digital design,” and at its core is the latest DSP technology, as well as high-frequency power stage for high-power density, accuracy, and dynamics....
Lighting Product Of The Year: Clay Paky Shotlight Wash
Clay Paky Shotlight Wash combines a 1,500W discharge lamp wash light with a separate, but integrated, 3,000W Xenon strobe. ...
Live Design Announces Products Of The Year
Live Design has named its 2011-2012 Products of the Year, chosen by panels of prestigious designers and programmers in the disciplines of lighting, sound, and projection. ...
Projection Gear
Projection Product Of The Year: Christie YK200
A member of the Christie Nitro Solutions family of yokes and projectors from Christie Digital, the Christie YK200 is a dual-arm yoke designed for projectors between 12,000 to 20,000 ANSI lumens....
Projection Product Of The Year: Barco ImagePRO-3G
Barco’s ImagePRO-3G is a high-performance video scaler, scan converter, switcher, and transcoder all rolled into one, providing the ideal solution for converting RGB, HDTV, component, S-video, composite (NTSC, PAL, and SECAM), and HD/SDI video into a user-selectable video format....
Projection Product Of The Year: GarageCUBE and 1024 Architecture MadMapper
MadMapper, a video mapping software program from GarageCUBE, makers of Modul8, and 1024 Architecture, brings really powerful projection mapping to the enthusiastic masses, students, and artists who cannot afford a top-of-the-line video server. MadMapper is built around the idea of sharing video content between applications. ...
Projection Product Of The Year: Advantage LED Solutions 5mm LED Panel
The 5mm LED display system by Advantage LED Solutions, a division of VER, has incredibly tight pitch, extremely high-resolution, and high-quality LED performance in a phenomenal form factor designed with theatre and touring markets in mind....
Live Design Announces Products Of The Year
Live Design has named its 2011-2012 Products of the Year, chosen by panels of prestigious designers and programmers in the disciplines of lighting, sound, and projection. ...
Sound Gear
Sound Product Of The Year: Shure Axient System
The Axient System from Shure represents a leap forward in wireless technology at a time of increasing concerns about bandwidth in situations where RF failure isn’t an option (and really, when is it?)...
Sound Product Of The Year: DPA d:fine
DPA’s d:fine microphone range is available in directional/omni versions, single/dual ear designs, long/short microphone booms, and in multiple colors—lots of choices for various demanding requirements....
Staging Gear
Lighting Product Of The Year: Parasol Advanced Lighting Systems Parasol System
Pan, tilt, and…slide? Parasol’s patented technology, developed for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and then used for last season’s finale of American Idol, has come to the masses, with autonomously moving “ParaCarts.” ...
XLNT Advanced Technologies Cybermotion
XLNT Advanced Technologies CyberMotion™ is a range of motion products—C-Hoist, C-Winch, C-Track, and C-Trolley. ...






