DPI Lightning 45sx+ Lights An Entire Arena
OK….not the whole thing…but it’s pretty damn bright in there. The pre-game and intermission display at Rogers Arena, home of the Vancouver Canucks, got a make-over this year that includes four DPI Lightning 45sx+ projectors and Green Hippo media servers. I’ve always thought that arena’s should trick out their team intro’s and halftimes. I mean, the mascot shooting baskets and “shoot-the-puck” contests just don’t cut it any more.
There are also lightweight scrims that come down from the rafters in the for corners of the ice so it really opens the dimensionality of the show. The displays are split into segments by a Datapath X4 video wall processor, creating a 200-foot by 80-foot image on the ice. The DPI Lightning 45 sx+ packs a walloping 30,000 lumen punch with a contrast ratio of 1800:1. It also has an Intelligent Lens Mount (ILM) system that allows up to 10 different presets for lens settings (zoom, focus, shift) that can be recalled automatically. I own 2 of the 35hd’s and I can tell you, these are not your typical PJ’s- they’re big and super bright and it looks like they’ve accomplished their mission for the Canucks.
Electrosonic Makes a Splash with AT&T Dolphin Show
From Electrosonic’s news release:
An inspiring theatrical production starring Atlantic bottle nose dolphins is thrilling and amazing visitors at the newly-expanded Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Electrosonic played a major role designing, supplying and installing all the audio and video equipment the showrequired. In addition, the Design Consulting team at Electrosonic took on the production’s complex AV and show control systems design.
Electrosonic’s work supported Clermont, Florida-based entertainment design and production company WOW! Works which crafted AT&T Dolphin Tales, a sweeping 25-minute musical tribute (more…)
Disney Updates Magic, Memories, and You for the Holidays
Since its premiere last January, the show “The Magic, The Memories and You!” has been wowing guests. We ran a feature on it as well as saw it in person. Each night the show is presented, the faces of Cinderella Castle at the Walt Disney World Resort and “it’s a small world” at the Disneyland Resort have been transformed with magical special effects, animation and images of the guests captured by Disney PhotoPass photographers during the day.
For the holiday season, they’re updating one of the segments of the show with a musical score filled with favorite holiday tunes and pictures of guests celebrating in the parks. Starting tomorrow in Magic Kingdom Park, Cinderella Castle will appear to be wrapped in gift paper and bows, covered in candy stripes and more!
Back to School- Hippo Style
LDInstitute On The Road presents TMB Three-day Hippo School in Conjunction with the second annual Live Design Master Classes (December 3 & 4 at USC)
The Hippo training will be held:
Monday-Wednesday, December 5-7, 2011
Class limit 14: two per work station
And get this- 10.5 ETCP renewal credits! (more…)
Tools, Tips, and Tricks of the Trade- Green Hippo’s Grasshopper
Green Hippo, the folks behind the Hippotizer HD, debuted their latest device- the Grasshopper, at the TMB booth at USITT last week. The Grasshopper is the solution for those that need a single output of HD with 8 media layers in an affordable package. It shares a lot of the software features of it’s larger cousin, the Hippotizer HD, and can be operated as a standalone video player running Videomapper or as part of an Uberpan rig. It can be used to drive any projection or data-display rig you can come up with. I need 10 or so…
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