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44th Solothurn Film Festival

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

The Solothurn Film Festival is the most important festival for Swiss film productions. Every year in January, the festival presents a representative selection of current Swiss films in "Swiss Forum". The festival program is supplemented with two exclusive special sections: the "Rencontre" and the "Invitation" section. Christie will be supporting two of its partners - Protronic and Visopta - at the festival.

Flat Panels: Philips & LG Q&A

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

In the January issue of AV Magazine we spoke to LG & Philips regarding how they saw they current state of the flat panels market. Due to space constraints we were unable to publish their full comments, so here are their complete answers to the questions we put to them.

Jack Morton on hand at NYE for 5th year running

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

Jack Morton Worldwide produced a display to mark midnight on New Year's Eve over the River Thames and the London Eye for the fifth consecutive year. The agency produced the event for the Mayor of London working in conjunction with Visit London, pyrotechnician Christophe Berthonneau and lighting designer Durham Marenghi to create the display. The event was sponsored by LG.

Paradigm to offer Multi-Touch Table

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

Paradigm AV has signed a deal with Canadian company GestureTek's to distribute the products in the UK and Ireland, in order to help meet what it feels will be the major a-v growth area in 2009 - digital signage.

Midwich signs exclusive LG contract

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

LG has restructured its distribution channel for 2009 making Midwich its sole UK distribution partner for its commercial large format and specialist display products.

Kramer branches out into speakers

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

Kramer Electronics has launched the SPK series speakers, which comprises of six models for various a-v applications. The SPK series is designed for use in professional a-v environments or other multimedia applications.

PRG buys Summit Steel

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

Live event rigging company, Summit Steel, has become part of Production Resource Group. Jon Bray, Chris Walker and the staff at Summit are all maintaining exactly the same roles as before. Summit Steel will be keeping their name, logo and identity, continuing as an independent brand and will remain located at their base in the South East.

AVC Media bucks trend

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

Despite the current worldwide economic downturn AVC Media productions has had one of its most successful years so far for extending its global reach, both in corporate production and 3D animation, with four projects alone coming in at excess of £200,000.

Bespoke a-v for BAE's Aero India exhibit

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

DB Systems is preparing to provide an a-v package for defence and aerospace giant, BAE Systems at Aero India 2009. This is the first event DB will work on as part of the recently won two-year contract with RapierGroup. In total, DB will design bespoke a-v systems for BAE Systems' exhibits at over 28 exhibitions and events around the world.

True Colours signs Obonok deal

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

True Colours Distribution has signed a UK distribution exclusive with Obonok Technologies, a developer of products for extending and distributing uncompressed HD audio and video digital signals over a single Cat5e/Cat6 UTP cable.

Promethean partners with Maverick

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

Promethean is to form a partnership with distributor Maverick, as part of the company's ongoing drive to offer support for its registered channel partners. From 1st Jan 2009, Maverick will be responsible for the distribution of Promethean to a cross section of registered partners, and will also provide commercial and marketing assistance to the partners.

Audica appoints Audiolead in France

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:51:00 GMT

Audica Professional, the UK manufacturer of the Microseries range of loudspeakers and electronics for the background music, a-v and audio communications markets, has announced the appointment of Audiolead as its exclusive distributor in France.

Reflex launches lamps website

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:14:00 GMT

a-v reseller Reflex has launched a website to help make sourcing lamps as easy as possible. The website, features over 7,000 lamps from 135 different companies.