New Products Unveiled at CUE: ETC GIO, LED S4
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I dunno, Derek. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that a "lighting control product" necessarily means a console. I've been an amateur windowshade programmer for over 15 years now, and you can usually find parts readily available at Home Depot, unlike those fancy consoles. Personally, I'm waiting with baited breath for the ETC PissPot*. It'll revolutionize the lighting control industry by.... uh.... well, I'm sure it will.... somehow....
*Maybe Apollo can make it. Then we'd get to call it the Smart PissPot.
I wonder about this philosophy and would have to ask Al Ridella at 4Wall for his input, but I would think the Ion concept - simple/small desk with add on's would work well for the shop. need just an Ion and a monitor ?. Easy. Want an add'l touch screen, or 2, easy. Add a small 2x10 wing, OK, or 2 2x40 wings ?, also OK. Remember as well that ETC took a ton of grief over the footprint of the smallest Express vs. the Microvision and that drove the Ion size and package somewhat.
Yes it's more road cases, but right now if someone comes in with an Expression, they have 3 cases anyway, for console, monitor 1 and monitor 2. Recall the posts a few weeks ago about how Prod Arts got Strand to downsize the big Light Palette desk to 4 units, facepanel, 2 monitors and processor ?. Same thing now and easier to lift many small cases then one huge one. Anybody remember lifting a Diamond 4 ?.
If I had any input, I'd want a desk between Ion and Eos, in terms of address counts, in a size slightly larger then an Ion with all the buttons and layout of the Eos,, just no screens or faders. Yes I'd want a Grand Master (what were they thinking ?), but I'd stick with the fader wings and then maybe allow 4 touch screens.
If I were ETC I'd be taking the Eos OS and improving the ML/Pixel/LED capabilities in a desk that competes with the GrandMA. That's the desk that's the competition.
shiben
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Probably a lot. IIRC, Eos is pretty expensive, and an Ion considerably less so. Also, I doubt that theatres are just their target, touring probably has something to say about it as well...
On a totally unrelated note, any idea how ETC got the name ION for that particular product? I get Eos, Element makes some sense as well, and starting with Element Ion makes sense, but then Eos doesnt. I mean: Element (basic state) > add a charge and get an Ion > the goddess of the dawn? Perhaps Element be Selene, Ion Eos, and Eos Helios makes more sense? Ahh, the wonders of Google and the questions that its search returns bring...
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How 'bout the PRIUS?
. ^ get the reference to the other thread?
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How 'bout the PRIUS?
. ^ get the reference to the other thread?
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What drives the names of the products in the Eos family? For the most part, names that can't be shortened to something else. Having dealt with products like Obsession and Virtuoso, which were shortened to Obs and Vert - a prime directive was a name short enough that it didn't need to be truncated verbally!
Yes, the entire family has some relation to names of autos (incidental by the way), we've stopped short of replacing the level wheel with a steering wheel! But there are also television networks, cameras, and a now defunct airline all sharing names with the family as well. Virtually impossible these days to find a name that hasn't been used for something. You have all (mostly) correctly identified the genesis of the names.
Eos - Greek goddess of the dawn (also a car and airline).
Ion - relates to our legacy product lines, as Steve points out, and has a Greek sort of thing going on.
Element - not three letters like the rest of the family to differentiate it from a feature standpoint, containing the functional DNA of the product line.
Anne Valentino
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So, I'm going to drive my Eos, over the tundra, to my friends house, where he fixed the dimmer that would reduce too many volts, then taking his Leko to the focusing session? I hope someone fixed the smartfade, it was beginning to bug ME. Our scenic director, cheyenne, made this panorama that's really hard to light. Sorry about the bad puns, I have a bit of an obsession, but I'm happy, it's a good way to express yourself, and I'm in my element.
Ps, Please don't take anything in this post seriously!
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