Astera Launches AX9 PowerPAR

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Wireless LED lighting specialist Astera launches another new product – the AX9 PowerPAR.

As the name implies, the AX9 is a high-intensity, rock-solid, all-purpose everyday LED lighting fixture with all the advantages of Astera, including battery operation, wireless control, and quality engineering.
AX9 is the ‘big brother’ of Astera’s hugely successful AX5 TriplePAR which became an industry-standard LED PAR. AX9 is bigger, brighter and benefits from all Astera’s latest innovations, like the Titan LED engine, an optimised bracket with Airline Track, a Titan-style keypad for fast and easy local control and direct control via the versatile AsteraApp.

Effectively it is a three-in-one solution. Offering a wireless PAR light source that can also be run as a wired PAR for longer-term installations and an elegant up-lighter, with the fixture’s 105 Watt output offering over 3000 Lumens of beautifully homogenised light.

Discover All the Advantages of IP-Rated Lighting on Elation July 29th Coffee Break

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As lighting professionals the world over increasingly discover the benefits of IP-rated lighting, Alistair Smyth and Frederik Afif will use the July 29th Elation Coffee Break to talk about environmental protection beyond water and moisture, and reveal some of the tips and tricks pros can use to get the most out of their ingress protected luminaires.

With Elation offering the market’s leading line of IP65-rated luminaires, and the Proteus range now synonymous with weatherproof lighting, there’s no more qualified team to present an IP65 special. Join Alistair and Frederik as they provide tips for weathering temporary outdoor installations such as festivals, while covering topics like marine grade coating, sun protection mode, and IP testing gear. And remember, sealed IP-rated lighting keeps out particulates like dust, sand and grime and has a host of benefits for indoor use as well.

Matrox and ECA Bolster Video Wall Options for Control Rooms and Digital Signage

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Matrox is excited to announce that ECA’s EVS video wall controllers have been validated with Matrox’s complete portfolio of video wall hardware and software tools.

This collaboration enables OEMs, system integrators, and AV installers with new integration opportunities to customize EVS video wall controllers with multi-channel 4K and HD capture, encoding, streaming, recording, decoding, display, and control for mission-critical and commercial display wall applications.

Canadian Distribution Partner, Plus Extended Product Line, For Manfrotto Lighting and Avenger Lighting Grip

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A.C. Lighting Inc., distributor of world-class lighting and rigging technologies, is delighted to announce that we are now a Canadian Distribution Partner of Manfrotto Lighting and Avenger Lighting Grip products in Canada. With this announcement, comes the extension of the product portfolio across the North American Market.

A.C. Lighting Inc. announced at LDI in 2019 their partnership with Manfrotto Lighting and Avenger Lighting Grip to distribute their products throughout the United States. Backed on the success of this partnership, the two companies have decided to partner in the Canadian market.

Manfrotto Lighting and Avenger Lighting Grip products are designed and manufactured in Italy to service the needs of the professional lighting and grip worlds. A.C. Lighting Inc.’s product offering will center around products designed exclusively for the lighting industry including, film, theatre, broadcast, live entertainment, and audio-visual channels. Manfrotto and Avenger are known worldwide for manufacturing lighting stands, clamps, adapters, and accessories for the professional lighting market.

Elation July 8 Coffee Break

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In many respects, a lighting designer is only as good as the lighting tools at his or her disposal. So what makes one luminaire a superior tool for creative lighting design and another not? Join Alistair Smyth and Frederik Afif on the July 8th Elation Coffee Break as they showcase one of Elation’s most popular and creatively rich moving heads, the Artiste Picasso™.

From Elation’s award-winning Artiste series of creative, full-featured moving heads, the Artiste Picasso is an innovative and inspirational theatrical-grade luminaire. The 23,000-lumen LED light is rich on features, including a zoom and a rotating 4-blade framing system, and houses the latest in artistic projection possibilities, allowing lighting pros at all levels to light like a master. A universal fixture with the flexibility to serve a variety of applications, it produces the uniform field of light that designers prefer while staying whisper quiet, making the Artiste Picasso ideal for stage environments of all types.

BenQ Expands Lineup of Classroom Interactive Displays With Entry-Level Cloud-Based Models

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BenQ, an internationally renowned provider of visual display solutions, is bringing the power of cloud connectivity to the forefront of classroom learning to support remote and hybrid environments with the new, affordable RE Series interactive displays. Available in 65-inch, 75-inch, 86-inch, and 98-inch models, the RE series incorporates the same intuitive, feature-rich EZWrite cloud whiteboard software and InstaShare wireless screen sharing system as the award-winning RP Series raved about by teachers. Educators simply tap to teach with all the tools they need right at their fingertips to make learning a positive, engaging experience and build future-ready, successful students.

“When we introduced our education interactive displays over nine years ago, we designed a collaboration solution that was based on years of feedback gathered from teachers, students, and school IT and technology staff,” said Bob Wudeck, senior director of business development at BenQ America Corp. “The RM and RP Series solved the user, connectivity, and collaboration challenges they experienced with traditional whiteboards — from glitchy touchscreens and limited collaboration and content capabilities to zero asset and software management and maintenance features. As we enter an all-new era of learning, we have continued to listen to the education community. The RE Series furthers our commitment to responding to these needs with features and capabilities that are ready to support the new dynamics in today’s hybrid classrooms.”