Projection Connection News

ORLANDO – Macroblock offered attendees at InfoComm 2017 information about the company’s latest Hawkeye solution platform under the theme of “Superior, Simple, Smart.”

DALLAS – Goalen Group, a full-service, live event design and production provider based in Santa Monica, CA, used FLEXLite Plus 3.9mm LED video from Nashville-based PixelFLEX to visually “raise the roof” for an aerospace manufacturer’s event staged at the Bomb Factory in Dallas, TX.

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LONDON, UK– Green Hippo is delighted to announce its agreement with Ampco Flashlight Group. The Utrecht-based outfit – which consists of three principal divisions: rental, sales, and technology – is ideally placed to take real-time video playback technology to venues and practitioners throughout this valuable politico-economic union; one which is home to almost 30 million people. Peter de Fouw, General Manager of Ampco Flashlight Sales comments: “Green Hippo is a hugely important brand to us and by taking on this market-leading brand for distribution, opens up opportunities in new and innovative markets across the Benelux region.”

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LONDON – d3 Studio partner, Amsterdam-based, Live Legends, has expanded its fleet with the first European debut prerelease d3 gx 2 media servers. The new gx range comes with a Notch Playback license, allowing users to create, simulate, render, composite, edit and play in realtime. d3 Technologies’ gx 2 couples the power of its pro range with the most powerful GPU for unparalleled real-time generative content, a field in which Live Legends are an industry leader.

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LONDON, UK – Dinamo Riga, the Latvian professional hockey team, teamed with Stage Crew, Latvian technical production service, to mark Dinamo’s final home game of the KHL 2016/17 season. And center to the stunning pre-game visuals was a Hippotizer Karst Media Server, running Hippotizer V4. The impressive Arena Riga has been home to the Kontinental Hockey League club Dinamo Riga since 2008, offering a 10,300 capacity when the ice is laid out. One of Latvia’s leading indoor venues – artists to have played concerts there include Ed Sheeran, Elton John, KISS, Metallica, and Tiesto – Arena Riga provided a superb backdrop and center piece for the show.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: Australian audio-visual production company, IKONIX, recently used one of their Avolites Ai RX8 Media servers to video map a Cinco de Mayo event (Day of the Dead) at Melbourne’s top trending event space, Peninsula. The Mexican-themed event marked the end of the five-day 37th Australian Dental Association (ADA) Congress 2017 with 700 guests in attendance. 

AMHERST, NY – Christie named Stampede exclusive distributor in North America, the U.K. and Ireland for the Christie Access Series LCD panels.

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ITASCA, Ill., — ABCOMRENTS, a leading provider of Digital Signage & interactive technology solutions, has partnered with Absen to bring even more of their products to the U.S. rental market. One of the latest offerings is the Absen X5 LED Tile, a high quality, multipurpose, curvable LED wall tile that is unique in the technology rental industry. The partnership will continue to make innovative technology more accessible to the rental & staging industry nationally.

INDIANAPOLIS – Markey’s Rental & Staging may have gotten its start when Mrs. Martelle “Marty” Markey launched the firm in 1959 as a 16mm film rental company, but it’s kept up with the changing AV needs of its customers. Within the last six months, Markey’s purchased 14 Roland Professional A/V VR-50HD video switchers (pictured here).

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WORLD – d3 is accompanying American rock band Blink-182 for their headlining worldwide “California Tour” .  The ongoing tour, in support of the band’s seventh studio album, called “California,” began last summer; its first international leg concluded in October 2016.  The US leg of the 2017 tour wrapped up in May.  European and other international dates follow through autumn. Blink-182 uses d3 to map lights, control multiple feed maps on the same surfaces and provide direct Art-Net control of some playback layers. d3 Designer, the software-only version of the d3 production suite is also used offline for programming and visualization.

NEW YORK – When TAD Associates was asked to update two conference rooms for a major New York Financial Institution the AV Consultant chose Analog Way’s Ascender 48.  The multi-screen seamless switchers drive new LED displays and edge blended projection systems. 

LONDON – For Shawn Mendes’ “Illuminate” tour leg through Europe from late April to early June, production design firm Okulus worked with creative director Paul Caslin and 24/7 Productions on a visual design that included the use of Hippotizer Boreals and Taigas to feed imagery to a 1920 x 640 curved, 9mm LED wall. The visuals were triggered via timecode, and the team also integrated the video director’s live camera feeds into the content. The tour resumes for a series of North American dates from July 6 (Portland, OR) to Aug. 23 (Boston).