soundlight
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It's not the software copying that's the crime with moving lights, software is the crime for console. It's copying the innards of a moving light part for part that is the crime. However, since the lights are being imported in to the US and sold in the US, I'm gonna hazard a guess that they're legal. That doesn't mean they aren't blatant ripoffs, though - the exact details of the head design and yoke design of the MAC250 series have been copied to the NW fixture, which is apparently a series of generic movers from China that the owner of NW imports. When plastic molding details like that are copied it's pretty obvious. I heard that he designs the LED fixtures himself, however, which is awesome. So essentially I'd consider buying NW LED fixtures but not movers.
Blizzard also has some fixtures that are designed after other fixtures - Chauvet in particular, and the owner even says that he wanted to improve on fixtures like Chauvet's, if I remember right. However they have a lot of other fixtures which seem to be very well designed and have great output for LED movers like the Polaris that Esoteric mentioned. Take a look at that.
And I'll throw in another recommendation for the ADJ VIZI Spot 5R, the cheaper version of the Platinum Spot 5R.
Blizzard also has some fixtures that are designed after other fixtures - Chauvet in particular, and the owner even says that he wanted to improve on fixtures like Chauvet's, if I remember right. However they have a lot of other fixtures which seem to be very well designed and have great output for LED movers like the Polaris that Esoteric mentioned. Take a look at that.
And I'll throw in another recommendation for the ADJ VIZI Spot 5R, the cheaper version of the Platinum Spot 5R.