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ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP) announced today that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved E1.33 RDMnet as an American National Standard. The ANSI designation is universally recognized as a mark of technical diligence and commercial impartiality.Officially...

Those are all from Glow Motion Technologies. They are all RF and can be controlled individually or in groups. It's all programmed using DMX.

It had the correct use of "shall" in the original language and in the world of Standards that is as strong as it gets in being an absolute requirement.

Steve, it's very simple. All NEW products designed after '99 were designed with 5-pin XLR. Existing products continued with the connectors they were designed with. It can be argued right or wrong all day long. But the reasoning for it was so that everyone at least KNEW what to expect when...

Not sure how you say it is Steve's fault. The 5-pin XLR was clearly specified as far back as the 1986 original version of DMX. All the moving light companies started with their own protocols using 3-pin and it wasn't until later ~'92 that they started implementing DMX as a secondary protocol...

It's much less annoying than having a mixed inventory of different cable types! And no matter which cable you grab, when you look at the end you WILL find it has the wrong number of pins. In fact, that is such a true statement, I think I'll call it Terry Law. In honor of the man that finally...

I get the very rare opportunity to quasi-correct Steve Terry on something ;) E1.11 actually says nothing about cabling. All cabling requirements were moved to seperate documents. Those are E1.27-1 for Portable Cables and E1.27-2 for Permanently Installed Cables. Available for purchase from...

I always thought the MicroVision was charming for it's time... Much better console than the "bad" Idea console that came later...

I ran across this in a theatre years ago and it has always stuck with me.... The Six Phases of Show Production: 1. Enthusiasm. 2. Disillusionment. 3. Panic. 4. Search for the guilty. 5. Punishment of the innocent. 6. Praise and honors for the non-participants.

The proper way to do it to bus the In and Thru connectors together directly and then connect off that for the DMX feed for your device. In effect this creates a small 'Y' inside the product, but very short stubs are fine (i.e. less than foot or so). This is how most all professional grade...

The Premier was definitely in use in the main stage up until that point! They had no other options. The purpose of my trip was to get the Response 2212 working with the Quad Dimmers so they could start bringing the Microvision over. It's sad to think that ETC had the chance to obtain that...

I was thinking about that last night. I can't recall what the exact basis for what that comment was. I knew at the time they were very rare consoles. I might have gotten that info from Dan at UNT, but it's been too long to be certain anymore. It's okay, I'm a whore that way ;) People...

I did not take those pictures, but I have actually SEEN a Premier in the wild! It was at the University of North Texas in Denton (north of Dallas) and they were STILL using it in their main auditorium. I would bet dollars to donuts the install was done by Ed Jones as he was a huge EC guy BITD...