ProLight+Sound Frankfurt report (fully biased)

[pelosh]

Hi all,

so we did go there with Bob (Profexion) and one of my friends and it turned to be one of the best events I ever been to (partly because of Bob - he took us on little tour around the town were he lives - we like Belgium a lot! - Thanks Bob again).

No chance to see everything in 2 days at the show..so much stuff.

Anyway, as you can expect I was focusing on laser displays .

Biggest laser stands:

1.LOBO - I have never see them before and although they have some nice machines the whole presentation was bit of dissappoitment as I expected much more than few beams synchronised to the sound track...I thought that THEY will show me something I have never seen.

2.LaserWorld - Quite clearly were trying to give impression of dominance on the low-cost market with their huge stand with many projectors on it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) their show did not show anything except few nice colours and beams in damned smoked space...that is what we all can have in the living room without much effort.

3.HB-Lasers - some nice stuff and their Mirror Cube was just madness. Very nice idea! I felt like in the Metrix.

4.Arctos - Proper stuff, but no show. Everything based on nice stand, case design and quality beam and colours.

5.KVANT - quite impressive multimedia laser-show combined with video-projection and water screen (low water pressure otherwise superb).
The show was nicely prepared although bit long for me (10 minutes), but crowds of people watched it always to the end.



New 3W RGB are superb size, weight and performance!

Square contains 32x 500mW RGB (640,532,504 + LM scanners)
Round truss contains 18x 1W RGB (640,532,445 + LM scanners)
Top of the circle is 20W RGB (650+640, 577, 532, 445 + CT)
There were 2 more projectors hidden, both 3W RGB.

PANGOLIN stand - they had 2 nice little projectors for graphics there (KVANT + Arctos) and the new soft which is supposed to be released very soon will make many of us happy as it is going to be for free for FB3 and QM users. It is kind of easy to use! LivePro thing with quite few very cool features for live performance and optimised for touch-screens.
I have met Bill for the first time and he seem to be nice person too.

In terms of prices of laser technologies there is significant drop everywhere as bigger companies are putting more pressure on small ones as the market is not big enough for all of them and it looks like that this year is going to be crucial for few of them.

Almost everyone is using 640 and 445 now.

I don't know why but I never keep enough time to do good video or pictures anywhere so all I have is 18MB video:

ftp://ftp.photonlexicon.com/VIDEOS/Frankfurt.avi

Thanks!

On the picture for Mondo from the left: Dusan Navara, Me and Petr Polak

[soforene]

Sounds scrummy !!

[Insanity]

Very impressive..

How did you control that little lot? Was it 1 QM2000 per laser? Love the way they all chase one by one...

Mark

[JeroenVDV]

They use the Moncha Matrix, so with only one QM and DMX-control, they were able to control all lasers intensity/position individually.

[Pangolin]

Hi,

GREAT review! People have asked me about Prolight. I will just have them read your post .

Regarding the KVANT booth, yes, they had a total of FIFTY! laser projectors. Amazing show design too. But I think there was more than one QM2000 in control. I am not sure how many, but certainly more than one...

Best regards,

William Benner

[JeroenVDV]

Hi,

GREAT review! People have asked me about Prolight. I will just have them read your post .

Hi Bill, was nice to meet you again in Frankfurt. We had a good conversation about software development and we've shared some nice thoughts/ideas .

Regarding the KVANT booth, yes, they had a total of FIFTY! laser projectors. Amazing show design too. But I think there was more than one QM2000 in control. I am not sure how many, but certainly more than one...

Graphics-shows of course with individual QM's, but the beamshows ran from one QM (splitted via the Matrix).

[White-Light]

Pelosh might be just me but I can't get your avi to work. I get sound but no picture.

[p1t8ull]

They use the Moncha Matrix, so with only one QM and DMX-control, they were able to control all lasers intensity/position individually.

That Matrix looks like a very nice bit of kit

[danielbriggs]

Pelosh might be just me but I can't get your avi to work. I get sound but no picture.

It uses the IV50 codec
http://rapidshare.com/files/178435649/iv5setup.exe

[Laserman532]

Hi all,

so we did go there with Bob (Profexion) and one of my friends and it turned to be one of the best events I ever been to (partly because of Bob - he took us on little tour around the town were he lives - we like Belgium a lot! - Thanks Bob again).

No chance to see everything in 2 days at the show..so much stuff.

Anyway, as you can expect I was focusing on laser displays .

Biggest laser stands:

1.LOBO - I have never see them before and although they have some nice machines the whole presentation was bit of dissappoitment as I expected much more than few beams synchronised to the sound track...I thought that THEY will show me something I have never seen.

2.LaserWorld - Quite clearly were trying to give impression of dominance on the low-cost market with their huge stand with many projectors on it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) their show did not show anything except few nice colours and beams in damned smoked space...that is what we all can have in the living room without much effort.

3.HB-Lasers - some nice stuff and their Mirror Cube was just madness. Very nice idea! I felt like in the Metrix.

4.Arctos - Proper stuff, but no show. Everything based on nice stand, case design and quality beam and colours.

5.KVANT - quite impressive multimedia laser-show combined with video-projection and water screen (low water pressure otherwise superb).
The show was nicely prepared although bit long for me (10 minutes), but crowds of people watched it always to the end.



New 3W RGB are superb size, weight and performance!

Square contains 32x 500mW RGB (640,532,504 + LM scanners)
Round truss contains 18x 1W RGB (640,532,445 + LM scanners)
Top of the circle is 20W RGB (650+640, 577, 532, 445 + CT)
There were 2 more projectors hidden, both 3W RGB.

PANGOLIN stand - they had 2 nice little projectors for graphics there (KVANT + Arctos) and the new soft which is supposed to be released very soon will make many of us happy as it is going to be for free for FB3 and QM users. It is kind of easy to use! LivePro thing with quite few very cool features for live performance and optimised for touch-screens.
I have met Bill for the first time and he seem to be nice person too.

In terms of prices of laser technologies there is significant drop everywhere as bigger companies are putting more pressure on small ones as the market is not big enough for all of them and it looks like that this year is going to be crucial for few of them.

Almost everyone is using 640 and 445 now.

I don't know why but I never keep enough time to do good video or pictures anywhere so all I have is 18MB video:

ftp://ftp.photonlexicon.com/VIDEOS/Frankfurt.avi

Thanks!

On the picture for Mondo from the left: Dusan Navara, Me and Petr Polak

you guys dont look very happy...or is that your business face