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Any live TV productions, and now most game shows, are filled with automated lights. Be sure to record the production and read the credits to learn the names of the designer and programmer. Then you can try to contact the people involved with shows you like so you can learn more about the production. As for DVDs, there are many great concert DVDs. One all-time lighting favorite is Pink Floyd Pulse. This concert from 1994 really showcases what can be accomplished with automated lighting. What makes this concert even more spectacular is that no effects engines existed at the time of the production, and many other console functions had not yet been invented.

— Brad Schiller, from Feeding the Machines, PLSN December 2007.