Guest Blogger, Nicholas Phillips
Post-Show Wrap Up
Top Two Picks On Day 1:
After Day 1 I’m ready to announce my top picks of the show floor so far…
#1: Vari*Lite’s prototype VL3500 Wash. A big fat, 10″ lens, the VL2C like dual color wheels in addition to VL’s 3000 Series color mixing, and an output somewhere between 45-50,000 lumens make this a real winner. It’s a buzz on the floor for sure.
#2: Compulite Vector range of consoles. Only having spent a couple of hours on the desk with Chris Nathan, it’s looking like a real winner. While not exactly a new product, it’s sort of new that Nick Freed is the distributer and the software is getting to something special. Get this Broadway/touring–Vector can store both pictures, notes (like focus notes dude), audio and video by cue. It’s neato as you could record the spot cues and the audio stored in the console would playback by cue.
Thoughts On Day 2:
Day two of the show and my new product of the day is OSRAM’s AluPAR 56 lamp. While they have been touting this lamp for over a year now, it wasn’t until their intimate luncheon today that we actually saw one turned on–the first public showing in the US! The demo showed us the existing 300w PAR56 next to the AluPAR and the reaction in the room was an resounding “Oooo ahhh.” Really–it’s significantly brighter and the color temperature is beautiful more closely resembling that of the HPL type lamps. On top of this amazing new PAR light quality, it weighs 66% less. Think of how much weight that will save in our old PAR56 strips! That’s hot.. It’s also eco-friendly being fully recyclable as the aluminum reflector separates from the glass lens. Hopefully next year we’ll see the beginnings of the PAR64 AluPAR; when that comes OSRAM will really have this next gen PAR lamp in the bag.
They have a great looking booth that not only has a glass water wall, but the real draw is one of their actual OSCAR’s is on hand for photo op’s. Word from the keeper of OSCAR day and night during the show is it’s not quite the date magnet you would think it would be. One is never enough….
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January 31st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
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