Entertainment
On Safari with Draper Portable Projection Screens
Products Featured: Draper Traveller & Piper Portable Screens
Night time in the African bush, all around you are the sounds of unknown animals stalking their evening meals. A fire blazes nearby — the only light other than that provided by the moon and a deep sky full of stars. After a day of tracking and shooting wildlife, the moment has come. You open and reach into the long, slender case at your side, and lift the contents. A few feet away someone switches on a projector, and images of wildlife flash onto the portable video projection screen you’ve just opened..
Kramer goes live at the Carling Glasgow Academy
Products Featured: Kramer VS-5x4 Matrix Switcher
Glasgow is the latest location for the development of McKenzie Group’s Academy venue roll-out. To supply and implement the audio infrastructure (as well as the video playback), MKG’s managing director, John Northcote, enlisted Shepperton Studios-based Marquee Audio. Marquee project managers, Spencer Brooks and Scott Wakelin, thus designed a reconfigurable system that would service all the venue’s requirements.
Casino Niagara “Falls” For Kramer Electronics and Sierra Video Systems Products
Type: Entertainment - Cinema
Products Featured: Kramer TP-100 & TP-200, Sierra Pro™ 3232V5, 1616V5 & 84V5
At the Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls, Canada, guests enjoy sports betting and casino gaming amidst a stunning installation of sound, lights and technology – all managed by Kramer Electronics and Sierra Video Systems products. From the three-story media tree to the sports lounge plasmas, Kramer twisted pair transmitters and receivers and Sierra Video Systems routers move flawless video signals to over 150 displays throughout the building.
American Cinema Chain
Type: Entertainment - Cinema
Products Featured: Minicom DS Vision 3000
Landmark Theatres is the largest art house movie theatre chain in the United States. A number of locations have a Digital Signage network with high-definition content delivered to the screens located throughout.
Swiss Cinema Chain
Type: Entertainment
Products Featured: Minicom CAT 5 VDS and Minicom CAT 5 VDT
Arena wanted its new cinema to be sleek and modern. Its eventual design included 90 digital screens which were to be scattered throughout the cinema complex.
Type: Event
Products Featured: AMX Control System
There were no scoring errors, no judging snafus and no technical meltdowns at the 2006 Winter Olympic Figure Skating competitions– all thanks to the AMX® Modero® Touch Panels and NetLinx®Controllers that were used to score the competitions. “It was a pretty uneventful and quiet two weeks, but that’s just the way we like it.The system performed beautifully and everyone was more than pleased,” said Bill Taylor, president of Mobile Facilities, who sold,installed and programmed the AMX control systems.
Installed by Mobile Facilities
Type: Exhibition
Products Featured: AMX Control System
Designing and integrating a show-stopping AV experience into a mobile exhibition display has been achieved for oil giant, BP, by specialist provider, Hawthorn Electrical, using AMX control technology. The exhibition stand combines live demonstrations, interactive stand exhibits and dramatic audio-visual presentations running on up to 20 LCD and plasma display screens.
Installed by Hawthorn Electrical
Type: Arena/Stadiums
Products Featured: AMX Control System
Hallenstadion is a multipurpose sports arena, rock concert venue and conference centre located in Zurich, Switzerland. With a capacity crowd of 13,000, the arena is home to local professional ice hockey team, the Zürcher Sports Club (ZSC) Lions. Hallenstadion also pro-vides a venue for ice spectaculars, musicals, tennis tournaments and touring rock groups.
Type: Theme Parks
Products Featured: Lutron Lighting Control System
In May 2002, the Lego Company opened the world’s fourth Legoland theme park in Gunzburg, Bavaria. The lighting for the park’s shops, restaurants and pathways is controlled by seven Lutron Grafik 5000 systems.
