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Barco and High End Systems Debut SHOWPIX Advanced Luminaire Technology
Pioneering high-intensity moving LED wash light can project images synced to music, as well as color washes and multiple effects.
Austin, TX — June 16, 2008 — Barco, a leading manufacturer in display technology, and High End Systems, a worldwide entertainment lighting manufacturer recently acquired by Barco, will unveil SHOWPIX™, the first in a new and innovative line of Pixelation Luminaires™, at the Barco booth at InfoComm 2008 in Las Vegas, June 18-20.
SHOWPIX is both a high-power LED wash light and a programmable fixture that can display graphics. Its 18-inch diameter head features a circular array of 127 homogenous 3-watt LEDs, with an output of 24,000 RGB lumens. These pixels offer unlimited visual possibilities by projecting not just color washes, but images and other eye-catching effects, transforming the fixture head into a display device. Moreover, the media frames can be synchronized to music in real time.
The product is another "radical rethinking" lighting product by acclaimed inventor and HES Chief Technology Officer Richard Belliveau and his research and development team.
"With the SHOWPIX, we have merged a high power LED wash light with a programmable high intensity graphic display," states Belliveau. "SHOWPIX is simultaneously capable of operating as a high power conservative illuminator and producing mind blowing graphic images."
Users can select from a collection of custom onboard images or upload their own images using HES Echo™, a new software program that offers content visualization, management and upload capabilities as well as RDM management features. With this application, users control color mixing, rotation, scale, wipes, dissolves, transitions between layers, strobing and dimming. SHOWPIX is controlled using a standard DMX lighting console.
