Barco is expanding its projector portfolio for events and large venues with a three-chip DLP, 30,000 lumens model with WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) resolution. The HDF-W30 FLEX shares its modular design, preview mode, and ImagePRO scaling with the other HDX, HDF, and HDQ family members, while offering Barco’s unique flexible brightness. The new projector will be commercially available as of April 2015.
Q-Wash 560Z-LED is a best-in-class moving yoke wash with a wide zoom range and a variable beam angle. It powers out an impressive 13,100 lux at 5 meters. The incorporation of 91 high intensity and calibrated RGBWA Cree LEDs ensures a uniform wash, excellent color rendering and a vast color palette of soft pastels and vivid hues.
The new Platinum FLX from Elation Professional enters into a new class of multi-functional lighting fixtures offering a 3-in-1 hybrid luminaire with exceptional power that has flexible use as a spot, beam, or wash light. Designed for a wide variety of professional stage and special event applications, its 470W Philips™ MSD Platinum 20R lamp can emit up to 23,000 lumens, an output comparable to 1200W fixtures and powerful enough to cut through bright LED displays and sizable rigs full of lights. It performs exceptionally well in a variety of lighting applications thanks to its full-feature design including CMY and variable CTO color mixing.
Blizzard Lighting’s LB-Par Hex is a 6-in-1 LED PAR can that uses 12 15-watt RGBAW+UV 6-in-1 LEDs for just about any color, even UV light for an eerie hue.
Chauvet Professional’s COLORdash Accent Quad promises a punch of evenly mixed light from tight locations. Powered by a 10 quad color (RGBA) LED, this palm-sized fixture offers saturated colors and pastels with a soft, even glow. An onboard OLED display controls and addresses the fixture via DMX or in a stand-alone mode.
Cosmic Truss has launched a brand new display monitor and TV mounting bracket that is compatible with their F34 and F44 truss systems. Constructed from steel, measuring 16 inches wide, and just 3/16 inch thick this new bracket is both lightweight, yet extremely strong. It ships complete with two Cosmic Truss narrow half couplers and so is ready for use straight out of the box.
Christie’s Boxer 4K30 has six 450W mercury lamps delivering 30,000 center lumens.
Eurotruss developed a new Tunnel Roof in the most economic and popular size of 12x10m.
Christie’s H Series projectors feature 12,000 lumens and are the lightest, brightest and smallest projectors available in the 10,000-plus lumen 1DLP category.
tvONE has updated its CORIOmaster and CORIOmaster mini units with several enhancements. The C3-540 CORIOmaster and C3-510 CORIOmaster mini offer a new, more efficient approach to building video display arrays. tvONE’s CORIO3 technology gives designers and users access to unexplored realms of video processing power.
Avolites Media’s Ai V8 includes new features including Autoblend, Surface Modelling and a 50 percent increase in video throughput, among other enhancements. The new technology will be featured at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam along with Avolites’ other control consoles and servers. The exhibition takes place in Amsterdam’s RAI and runs from Feb. 10-12, 2015.
ArKaos, which is sharing a booth at Winter NAMM 2015 with U.S. distributors ADJ and Elation, (#5774 Hall B) will be presenting the latest version of its GrandVJ software, Grand VJ 2.1, now in beta release. The product’s full launch is expected one month after the show.