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In This Issue
Audio News:
Will Your Wireless Work On Feb. 17?
Lighting News:
Low-Calorie Lighting Reduces Costs
Video & Convergence News:
"The Work Is Art . . ."
General News:
Scharff Weisberg Hosts Tech Training for Freelancers
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| Audio News |
Will Your Wireless Work On Feb. 17?
With the switchover to Digital Television looming, our RF techs, Cliff and Drew, have been working with a number of clients to ensure that their wireless microphone and intercom systems will remain interference free once digital broadcasting starts in the 700MHz range. By coordinating frequency usage carefully and, where possible, trading in existing equipment for new frequencies, a number of broadcast studios and performing arts centers now have the confidence that, once the changeover takes place, their wireless equipment will continue to perform  properly. If you're not that confident, give us a call. We can provide maintenance, repair, custom engineering and manufacturing as well as on-site evaluation for all types of wireless audio and intercom equipment.
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| Lighting News |
Low-Calorie Lighting Reduces Costs
 Over the past year there's been lots of talk about potential energy savings as a result of using LED instead of incandescent or fluorescent conventional lighting technology. At Scharff Weisberg we recently experienced this first hand when we provided a lighting system to the American Museum of Natural History to light their new outdoor "ice" rink, courtesy of our client, 1220 Exhibits. The system, which is comprised of Color Kinetics ColorBlast, Altman CDM Pars and Coemar Parlite-LED fixtures, provides very effective illumination of the rink while using 90% less power than a convention system.
 In the same vein, the lighting shop has been making significant progress with LED-based moving fixtures, starting with the Elation Impression LED wash light. With output rated higher than a discharge 575 watt unit but using 50% less power, the Impression is a very compact fixture that features powerful color saturation and agile movement. Our inventory recently came back from a multi-week tour where they proved to be robust, trouble-free power misers.
For additional information on our large and growing rental inventory of low-energy use lighting equipment from Color Kinetics, Altman, Coemar, Elation and others check with your account executive.
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| Video & Convergence News
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"The Work Is Art . . ."
 You know when you work on a project and think it's pretty cool but have little idea of how it will be received by the critics and the public? That's how we felt leading up to the opening of Pipilotti Rist's monumental art work "Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)" at the Museum of Modern Art. To bring this to fruition, we had to pull just about everything from our bag of tricks including mixed resolutions, edge-blending, partial edge-blending, sophisticated thermodynamics, fiber-opt ics and image-warping.
The result? Let's let the respected art critic of The New Yorker magazine, Peter Schjeldahl, give us his reaction, as printed in the January 5th issue: "best thing to happen so far in the Museum of Modern Art's . . . atrium.", "a perfect synesthesia takes hold", "The work is art and, also, in its sumptuously and modestly passing way, something other and better than art". Well, we couldn't be more delighted and grateful to have partnered with Pipi, her studio and the museum on such a successful installation.
For more information as well as video of the installation click here. Or, better yet, visit it in person at MOMA where it is providing synethesia until Feb. 9.
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Scharff Weisberg Hosts Tech Training for Freelancers
On February 6 Scharff Weisberg will be hosting a special tech training day open to the members of our esteemed freelance technical community. During this session, attendees will have a choice of day-long sessions in specific audio, video, convergence and lighting technologies with hands-on time as well as classroom training. For more information on this event, just reply to this email and we'll get in contact.
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