AVPros has announced its rebrand to Tecnetics, marking a significant evolution in the company’s identity, mission, and scope of services. The new name reflects the organization’s expanded capabilities beyond audiovisual integration, encompassing low voltage infrastructure, physical security, and managed IT field services designed to deliver complete, measurable outcomes across every layer of enterprise technology. Under the leadership of two industry veterans, Ciaran Hamilton and Giovanni Agramonte, whose shared vision, complementary expertise, and passion for innovation, will define the company’s approach to technology integration. Ciaran leads with a consultative mindset -bridging engineering precision with strategic insight to help organisations adopt solutions…
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PPDS has announced its latest partner driven collaboration with Oracle Red Bull Racing, with the installation of two fully tailored all-weather dvLED displays at the Formula One giant’s global headquarters in Milton Keynes. Continuing a series of transformational projects driven by Oracle Red Bull Racing with Philips Professional Displays – exclusive digital display supplier and Team Partner – this new collaboration takes the power and sustainability benefits of the Philips LED range at the Red Bull Technology Campus outside for the first time. Occupying more than 700,000 square feet, the campus is a place where ideas and innovations come to…
Panasonic Connect Europe has released its Windows-based Visual Software Suite (VSS) platform, consolidating separate Panasonic software tools into a single, intuitive platform, for quicker setup and streamlined workflows. Optimised for use with Panasonic’s projectors and ET-FMP50 Series media processors, VSS streamlines multiple functions into one intuitive, four-screen interface for quick setup and easy onsite adjustments. Available for free download now, VSS gives AV professionals complete control over multi-projector environments. Its user-friendly design requires no training and boosts productivity through automated features that reduces time and manual intervention. Projector setup and management is streamlined with comprehensive auto calibration features, including geometry…
Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour is a global concert trek without peer. Kicking off in San José, Costa Rica on March 18 2022 and taking a hiatus following a ten-date residency at London’s Wembley Stadium that concluded on September 12, 2025, the 225-show-to-date tour has performed in 80 cities across 43 countries. Supporting 2021’s Music of the Spheres and 2024’s Moon Music albums, the stadium run has been equally significant for its remarkable sustainability initiatives, reducing CO2 emissions by nearly 60 percent compared to the band’s previous outing. But the trek is far from over; it’s expected to…
CDD for New York’s Obvio cocktail bar NYC-based Kurt Schlossberg has been specifying exclusively Martin Audio sound systems in Time Out Markets around the world for a number of years. But recently he undertook his first project for Chilean-born restaurateur Juan Santa Cruz, as Obvio joined the operator’s other upmarket establishments, including two in Central London’s trendy Mayfair and Notting Hill areas. His latest modern supper club and cocktail bar — named Obvio — is right on his own Manhattan doorstep, and again it is an exclusive Martin Audio house, taking advantage of the CDD series’ unique coaxial…
Technological advances in Augmented (aR), Virtual (vR) and Mixed Reality (mR), (umbrella term Extended Reality or xR), are currently running well ahead of commercial applications for these technologies. When and how will this change? What are the limiting factors? Who will be the early adopters? Bryan Denyer, editor of AV News, assesses the state of the art, with additional reporting from Darren Banks VP of Partnerships at The LED Studio. The report concludes with ideas of when and how to use the various tools that xR provides, and when the technologies should be left well alone! A lot of press…
The Gantry at LC-39 has been reborn. Once a quiet corner of Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, it’s now an immersive, launch-ready destination powered by advanced LED storytelling and real-time spaceflight experiences. Below, we take you inside the full transformation, the challenges, the technology, and the role The LED Studio played in bringing this new visitor landmark to life. The challenge Once a must-see stop for viewing Space Shuttle launches, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s LC-39 fell off the visitor map after shuttle flights ended in 2011. Since then, the landscape has changed dramatically, with annual launches jumping from five…
This November, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group and Live Nation will premiere Cirque du Soleil ALIZÉ, its first-ever resident show in Europe, at Theatre am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. To bring its immersive new blend of acrobatics and la magie nouvelle to life, Cirque turned to a Meyer Sound system supplied by Solotech and designed by veteran sound designer Jean-Michel Caron. For Caron, who has worked with Cirque du Soleil for more than 25 years in roles from monitor engineer to project manager to sound designer, ALIZÉ represents a new chapter. “I’ve done a lot of Big Top shows and…
Visitors to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra (Portugal) discovered a new way to experience its mystical gardens and architecture, through an immersive night time show, Festina Lente, created by Vortice Dance Company. The project featured 12 Christie HS Series laser projectors to illuminate the estate’s façades, trees, and lakes with vivid imagery inspired by classical literature and the search for self-knowledge. The experience transformed one of Portugal’s most iconic landmarks into a dynamic display of light, sound, and movement. Blending dance, video mapping, and storytelling, Festina Lente guided audiences through a series of projected scenes that reinterpreted passages from Virgil’s…
PPDS has announced the installation of 110x Google Cast and Netflix ready Philips MediaSuite TVs on Vietnam’s most luxurious 6-star floating superyacht hotels – the spectacular Grand Pioneers I and II. Halong Bay (which translates as ‘descending dragon’) on Tuan Chau Island is one of Vietnam’s most picturesque, fastest growing tourist destinations, with white sandy beaches, a clear turquoise ocean, and thousands of iconic limestone islets creating a paradisical setting like no other on earth. With visitor numbers increasing threefold since 2010 to almost seven million, there has been an equal boom in hotel properties, estimated to now be more than 38,000, with around…