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Rental & Staging Systems Awards
Presented at InfoComm
Staff
Jun 18, 2004
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| Rental & Staging Systems executive
editor David Keene (center) presented High End Systems’
Richard Belliveau (left) and Grif Palmer with the Rental &
Staging Systems Award for the Best Automated Luminaire, for
HES’ DL-1 Digital Light Engine, at the AV Communications
Excellence Awards Banquet at
InfoComm. | The winners of the second
annual Rental & Staging Systems Awards were presented at ICIA’s
smash-hit AV Communications Excellence Awards Banquet, June 8 at
InfoComm. The Awards Banquet, a sold-out, high-profile event at
InfoComm, enabled more than 500 AV professionals to celebrate the
success of leaders and pioneers in the industry. The success of the
banquet (held the night prior to the opening of the show floor) was
a great kick-off to InfoComm, and a chance for the industry to honor
their peers.
The Rental & Staging Systems Awards were
co-sponsored by Rental & Staging Systems magazine and the
International Communications Industries Association, Inc. (ICIA), to
recognize extraordinary accomplishment in product development, and
in a broad array of staged events, large and small, in the corporate
staging as well as the entertainment market. Winners of awards for
the Best Staged Events of 2003 were selected by an independent panel
of judges headed by Awards Chair and Rental & Staging Systems
magazine executive editor David Keene. New Product Award winners
were selected via a special Rental & Staging Systems magazine
reader poll.
In the July issue of Rental & Staging
Systems magazine, a special extended feature will list all winners
in both the Best Product and Best Staged Event categories. Special
advertising/sponsorship opportunities will be available for winning
companies to highlight their winning entry with extended coverage
and extensive company contact information.
Judging for the
Rental & Staging Systems Awards was based on fulfillment of the
event producer’s concept, professionalism of show production and
execution, advanced technology used in the event staging, creative
use of technology and satisfaction of end user client.
The
winners of the Best Staged Events are:
• Best Overall Staging
for a Corporate or Association Event, Large Venue
(Technology
budget greater than $200K): Tie:
Duocom – for the 14th World
Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf;
Show Department,
Inc – for the Walgreens Manager’s Meeting
• Best overall staging
for a corporate or association event, large venue
(Technology
budget greater than $50K, less than $200K): Tie:
Alford Media –
for the Proctor and Gamble Awards Ceremony;
and: Colortone – for
Cinecraft Productions, Big O Tires
• Best overall staging for a
corporate or association event, smaller budget
(Technology budget
less than $50K):
Eleven Producciones LTD – for the Mazda 20th
Anniversary Meeting
• Best overall staging for non-corporate
entertainment event:
Scharff Weisberg – for the “Sinatra, His
Voice, His World, His Way” show at Radio City Music Hall
• Best
overall staging for event
(Technology budget less than
$10K):
Staging Solutions – for the Houston Metro Light-Rail
Opening
• Best use of AV technology for a trade show booth for a
corporate client:
Cleveland Corporate Services – for the Milacron
booth at the NPE show
• Most innovative use of technology,
smaller format event:
Alford; for the BellSouth “You Call the
Play” booth at the Atlanta Braves stadium
• Most innovative use
of technology, outdoor event:
Duocom – for Montreal’s Urban
Passenger, Live on the Conveyer Pier
Also announced at the
banquet were the winners of the Best Rental/Staging Products awards,
as chosen by Rental & Staging Systems readers in a special
readers’ poll.
The winning rental/staging products in 14
categories are:
• Best Loudspeaker Product for the Staging
Market:
EAW (Eastern Acoustic Works) SLAM (Small Line Array
Module) KF730
• Best Audio/Mixing product for the Staging
Market:
DiGiCo D5 Live FM Digital Mixing Console
• Best Video
Projection product for the Staging Market:
Christie LX65 LCD
Projector
• Best Plasma or LCD Display product for the Staging
Market:
NEC Solutions America 61" XGA native resolution plasma
display
• Best Video Emissive Display product for the Staging
Market (non-Plasma/LCD:)
Barco MiPIX intelligent LED pixel
block
• Best Truss or Rigging product for the Staging
Market:
JELCO's EZ-LIFT for Large Screen Monitors
• Best
Lighting Product for the Staging Market/Automated Luminaire:
High
End Systems DL-1 Digital Light Engine
• Best Lighting Product for
the Staging Market/Standard Luminaires:
Wybron Nexera
• Best
Lighting product for the Staging Market/Lighting Control:
ETC
Emphasis
• Best Software product for the Staging Market (Rental,
Management, or Design):
Unique Business Systems R2 Rental
Businessware
• Best Video Signal Processing or Distribution
product for the Staging Market:
Vista Systems Montage
• Best
Video/Broadcast Product:
Sony DXC-D50 Camera with Triax
• Best
Projection Screen Product:
AV Stumpfl Monoblox Mobile Projection
Screen. System 64 Monoblox
• Best General AV Product for the
Rental and Staging Market (road cases, wireless, intercom, test
equipment, etc.):
ClearCom's CellCom wireless intercom
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