CAST Software of Toronto recognizes the importance of equipping our future lighting professionals with the right tools to start off their careers. In a special promotion to help combat tight times, CAST is for the first time in its history offering wysiwyg Perform Special Student Edition at the incredibly low price of only $499 (plus any applicable taxes and shipping costs). Compare that Perform SSE price to today’s regular $4999 more

amBIENT XC made its debut at the Higher Life Conference at Wembley Arena, featuring five shows over three days, 11-13 September. Each day featured a morning service and an evening service, with the audience remaining within the arena between the shows.

The idea was to use the amBIENT XC to run the LED lights in the arena between services to achieve a dynamic look more

Doha-based Creative Communication Group (known in the market as “CCG”) has recently purchased a large stock of the Clay Paky Alpha line to use at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, giving them the largest Clay Paky stock in the Middle East.

Adding to over 300 Clay Paky Alpha Series already in stock, CCG has recently purchased 22 Alpha Beam 1500, 24 Alpha Spot HPE more

Mark your calendars! Wireless Solution Sweden AB is proud to announce the 3rd Annual W-DMX™ Visionary Awards, to be held during LDI in Orlando. LDI attendees are invited to the Swedish vodka and meatball party commemorating this special ceremony on Saturday, November 21, starting at 4:30 pm in Booth #1075.

The W-DMX Visionary Awards give special recognition to individuals and OEM clients in the professional lighting more

Clay Paky recently had the pleasure of catching up with Chris Kempton, Lighting Director of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and a Knights of Illumination winner at PLASA09. Kempton shared details about the show, the award, and why he loves the new Alpha Beam 700 fixtures.

Photo L to R: Rob Bradley, Chris Kempton, David Bishop, Darren Lovell, Pauly Bellman.

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross more

Clay Paky has once again shown that there is a fixture for every scenario. Most recently, Alpha Profile 1200 fixtures were used during a National Theatre production of Phèdre at the famed Epidaurus theatre in Greece, as part of the Athens Festival.

The 15,000-seat Epidaurus theatre, designed in the 4th century BC, is known for its symmetry and beauty and marvelled for its more

CAST Software of Toronto, Canada has received confirmation of International Patent PCT/CA2009/001225 for its BlackBox system and method for realtime environment tracking and coordination – and thereby this filing conforms with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Switzerland.

This international patent filing for BlackBox is in addition to the filing #12/421,343 in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

BlackBox is the world’s first more

Wireless Solution is partying in Sweden this week to celebrate its 30,000th unit of W-DMX™ shipped. Considering the product was introduced to the market only 5 years ago, this is certainly an achievement of which to be proud.

“We’re extremely pleased – with this continuously rising volume, we’ve actually been able to reduce prices and pass the savings on to both OEM clients and more

Wireless Solution Sweden AB will be holding the next installment of Wireless University during LDI 2009, November 20-22 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Wireless University is the popular series of presentations and hands-on demonstrations aimed at educating the industry on the technology and benefits of wireless DMX.

The one-hour seminars are free to LDI attendees and will cover topics such as pros and cons of wireless control, more

CAST Software announces that Ubisense, with offices worldwide, is the latest partner to BlackBox, providing rapid response real time location detection to the product. Ubisense is a world leader in precise realtime location systems, tracking people and assets with unmatched accuracy.

Photo: L to R: Bruce Freeman of CAST, Russ Chandler of Ubisense, and Gil Densham of CAST.

BlackBox is the world’s first combination of more