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FUTURELIGHT PHS-260 – last edition!

April 13th, 2010 Posted in FUTURELIGHT Tags: ,

Due to high demand, there is one more possibility to order the proven and popular Futurelight PHS-260.

Many customers wanted to rebuild stocks for the last time. So we met the wishes of our customers and ordered a final shipment. So, take this unique opportunity and order your Futurelight PHS-280. The delivery will start around June.

Luminale 2010 – become a light designer yourself

At this year’s Luminale every internet user can become a light designer. The project is called „InterAktives Licht“ (interactive lighting). This is a co-operation between doitsmart.eventmanagement, Steinigke Showtechnic and Kameha Suite.

From April 11 to April 16 visitors to the website will have the chance to determine in which colors the Kameha Suite will be illuminated during the Luminale in Frankfurt. The facade as well as the individual windows of the historic building can be colorized independently and then combined to an aesthetic comprehensive composition via a web interface. The virtual lighting concepts on the website then will become tangible on the event evenings in Frankfurt: Every composition created will illuminate the Kameha Suite for about one minute.

Cameras will document the event and will give the creator at home an actual impression of the virtually arranged surfaces. The coupling via web interface will enable an almost unlimited number of international visitors the possibility of active participation at the Luminale.

Steinigke supports the project with light equipment. The main part is covered with several OCC-36 and PHS-1200 from Futurelight and with many LED T-1000 RGB from Eurolite.

Press release: Eurolite’s LSD-100 is ‘light tool of the year’

April 1st, 2010 Posted in EUROLITE, Press releases Tags: , ,

The LSD-100 from Eurolite was the winner of the category ‘light tool of the year’ at the PPVMedia Readers’ Awards. The ceremony took place in the course of the Musikmesse in Frankfurt.

Thilo Kramny, managing director of PPV, pointed out, that this prize was an important affirmation for the manufacturers, as it was awarded by the readers – customers in the end. ‘It’s an innovation award which illustrates whether the products go down well with the end users or not’, Kramny explains at the ceremony.

This is why everybody at Eurolite is particularly pleased about the award. It is a confirmation of the product’s concept. After all, the LSD curtains can definitely be called innovative – due to their combination of high flexibility, low weight and brilliant colors. Moreover, they are available in six different pixel pitches (from 100 mm to 20 mm) and in custom-made versions. Via buttons and hook-and-loop fasteners several curtains can easily be connected to form one big surface.

A standard laptop with 1 Gbps network card and the optionally available AIO network control system is everything you need for controlling the curtains. The latter consists of a network interface and the LED Show T9 software. So, the control does not demand a huge effort. A real benefit especially for mobile use. Compatibility to other media software programs, such as MADRIX, is given as well. Moreover, by means of Sending and Receiving card you can operate the curtains via DVI. Quite important when you decide to work with video processors and pictures of live cams.


Viruses in DMX-chains detected

April 1st, 2010 Posted in EUROLITE, FUTURELIGHT, General Tags: ,

As scientists of the University of Helsinki have now found out, much of the currently used spots in the event technology are infected with the insidious Tenebrae virus.
The bug is spreading particularly over unsecured DMX networks, and then implanting into the operating system of the host device. Particularly vulnerable are five pole data lines, because the virus is actually spreading very quickly on the two unused heads, said Prof. Dr. Lucido Alumbrado of the Prima-Lux Faculty in Helsinki. But wireless networks are also at high risk according to the study.
With his colleagues Alumbrado could demonstrate for the first time that phenomena such as excessive heat radiation as well as uneven distribution of light, and temporary changes in color temperature can be evidence of Tenebrae. Other symptoms include, according to the research team effects such as stray light, signal reflections on the control line and the denial of hot restrike.
In the final stage the Tenebrae virus may also be known as the Planckian locus, in conjunction with black body radiation, so Alumbrado further. In cooperation with technicians from Steinigke Showtechnic from Waldbüttelbrunn in Würzburg the scientists succeeded in developing a set of luminaires that are resistant to the virus. New devices from Futurelight and Eurolite use innovative security techniques such as shutter and correction filters that are designed to prevent an attack by the virus on the data line. A residual blackout is avoided by special multiplexer and molybdenum films. An installed Hauckian basket to the DMX Interface can increase the security against virus attacks even further.