Thursday, 15 May 2014

Time for shutdown?

Is it time I shutdown this blog?

I am leaning towards the idea!

Monday, 1 April 2013

This hasn't been doing much then!

We might have some new stuff for you or we might shut down the Blogspot page.

Sunday, 24 October 2010

UPDATE ON THE DMX WORLD IN GENERAL

Hi everyone, RDM has been known internationally for a few years now and we are starting to see it appear on even the smaller lighting company's products. RDM is here to stay and it enables us to be able to know when a fixture or series of fixtures or a single LED is down or has broken. It can also relay hundreds of different bits of information on fan speeds, light intensities and other things as long as you have the sensors installed. RDM is being seen heavily on static and touring dimmers so that you can remotely set the DMX 512 address without any fuss. It also menas that you can see if a RCD has tripped and means that you can get an engineer to it to rectorfy the problem.

CLOUD :
Tilera have made cloud computing possible by their advances in multi-core processors. They have produced processors that have 64 cores, they also produce processors with 32 cores. The most amazing part of Tilera's engineering so far is their blade server which would be completely ready for cloud computing as it has eight of the 64 core processors. It is extrememly powerful. This means that everyone is a step closer to the reality of cloud computing which means the concert lighting world will soon be able to rake in the benefits of using a cloud to hold all their pre-written DMX 512 programs ready for the show.

Friday, 16 July 2010

UPDATE ON DMX CLOUD

Hey everyone, just a quick update on the DMX cloud. There are two options, the first is to go for the private password protected seperate sections to a website or to go for a cloud website from Microsoft.

Sunday, 23 May 2010

A DMX CLOUD!

A DMX CLOUD...?? What is it? Well it is an internet page that you can save and store different show layouts and fixture apps to. It is really easy to use and could make concert lighting in different venues easier. This is sure to be a big hit with techies and roadies!

Sunday, 9 May 2010

ROBE DIGITAL

http://www.robedigital.com/

Robe have launched a new range of moving heads. Robe say that these new moving heads are the future of lighting. The range is called Digital. Digital fixtures include a projector and an Intergrated LEDWash modules.

There are three Digital Spots currently :
The DigitalSpot 3000DT.
The DigitalSpot 5000DT.
The DigitalSpot 7000DT.

The 5000DT does not include any LED modules as it is solely a moving head projector.
The 3000DT and the 7000DT both have 25 degree lense LED modules. The 3000DT has 1 module of 48 Luxeon Rebel LEDs. The 7000DT has 2 modules of 48 Luxeon Rebel LEDs.

I am sure that digital moving head fixtures will become more common place soon, but to most thr £44,000+ price tagg is just too much for a light fixture!

Monday, 19 April 2010

Concert Lighting

Concert Lighting is soon to change.
2004 borught new protocols to our world.
DMX512 via XLR-5 is still king, but for how long?
The new protocols are supposed to replace the XLR-5 and take away the problems that DMX512 has.
Personally I think that the XLR-5 should be the standard for Concert Lighting. It has been the best for so many years and changing over to these new protocols would be unnecessarily expensive and time consuming. Even buying converter boxes so you can run your XLR-5 fixtures would be extremely expensive.