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ETC Launches 2 New Products at Heavent 2007 Show

ETC France enjoyed an exceptionally busy Heavent 2007 show in Paris, launching two innovative new products – OnlyView 3D and the Focal Triple.

The stunning stand was the result of a collaboration with three other international companies - UK-based Stage One, specialists in automation systems, stage machinery and set creations; Anglo-French draping and material specialists Blackout and lighting, LED screen and sound rental house, Lumière et Son Paris.

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ETC to supply the largest outdoor architectural video projection ever mounted.

From the 20th June to the 29th July 2008, as part of the celebrations of the 400th Anniversary of Quebec City, “The Image Mill” shall be playing on the banks of Bassin Louise. ETC’s Paris team will work in collaboration with Robert Lepage’s production company, ExMachina, to present this larger-than-life portrait of Quebec City, using the huge surface of the Bunge grain elevators as a giant screen.

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ETC Projects for London 2008

For the fourth consecutive year, large projection specialists ETC London projected a series of giant sporting images and related inspirational text messages onto London’s 352 ft high Shell Tower as the metropolis rocked in to 2008.

As in previous years ETC was appointed by event producers Jack Morton Worldwide.

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ETC London Supplies Clouseau Video

Large format projection specialists ETC London are supplying 18 Christie S20 Roadster projectors to Belgian superstars Clouseau for their 18-night run at the 15,000 capacity Antwerp Sportpalais.

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ETC Paris projects for Danny Rose in acclaimed "Guilietta e Romeo" production

ETC Paris are supplying their proprietary OnlyView multimedia control software and Christie HD video projectors to Franco-Italian scenic design specialists Danny Rose for the acclaimed new production of Giulietta e Romeo (Romeo & Juliet) which is currently touring Italy.

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ETC helps preview new Arts Space

Le Cent Quatre (104) is an exciting new international arts space opening in Paris’s 19th arondissment in the autumn.

10,000 visitors were treated to “La Traversee” – a 2-day sneak preview of the project – featuring a series of specially commissioned interactive video installations, with hardware, software, material, control and expertise supplied by projection specialists ETC and Cosmo AV.

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ETC London increases Christie stock

Large format projection specialists, ETC London, have taken delivery of another 9 Christie Roadster S+20K high power video projectors.

This follows a previous major investment in Christie just 6 months ago and reflects both the company’s unprecedented demands of the last quarter of 2007 and a general increase in its level of video work, particularly in the conference and concert sectors. “We needed to boost the equipment inventory to service more clients and an increased number of projects – it’s as simple as that,” says ETC London’s MD, Ross Ashton.

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ETC London helps Rock Cashel for St Patrick’s Day

For the first time ever, Ireland's primary St Patrick's Day spectacular event moved out of Dublin and to picturesque Cashel in County Tipperary, for a live Saturday night prime time broadcast on RTE 1.

The 'Skyfest' event has traditionally been a fireworks show, but this year, Donal Sheils, chief executive of the St Patrick's Day Committee, decided the time was right to add some additional visual elements to the spectacle as well as shifting it to a charismatic site-specific location.

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ETC London Helps Launch Sunderland Aquatic Centre

Large format projection specialists ETC London created spectacular 90 metre wide images and produced the soundtrack for a special large scale outdoor event to launch the new Sunderland Aquatic Centre, the North East’s first Olympic sized swimming pool.

Working closely with show producers Magnetic Events, and soundscape producer Karen Monid, ETC’s Ross Ashton interpreted an original storyboard by Magnetic’s Robin Morley to create a 15 minute collage of images based on aquatic themes, interwoven with water-related elements from the City’s past and present, with “the swimmer” at its core.

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ETC London supplies multi-screen Projection for Lux Zee Cine Awards

Utilising 24 Christie 20K projectors and 16 OnlyView servers for control, ETC London supplied spectacular multi-screen projections onto a distorted perspective set for the Lux Zee Cine Awards (ZCA) 2008.

One of the most prestigious international Awards events on the Indian showbusiness calendar, it was staged this year at London’s ExCel Centre and produced by Cineyug for Zee TV.

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E/T/C Paris to Project 2008 Bordeaux Wine Festival

Large format projection specialists E/T/C Paris will supply video expertise to create 200 metre wide seamless video images on the stunning 18th century Place de la Bourse as the highlight of the 10th Bordeaux Wine Festival.

E/T/C will utilise its dynamic multimedia production and display control platform, OnlyView, with 4 Christie Roadie 25K and 3 Christie Roadster S+20 projectors to achieve spectacular results.

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E/T/C Paris Creates New World record For Video Projection

E/T/C Paris is creating a new world record in large format video projection as part of the festivities for the 400th anniversary of the City of Quebec, which runs from the 20th of June to the 24th of August.

“Le Moulin à Images” (The Image Mill), is a spectacle of imagery and sound created by media innovator and artist Robert Lepage and his team at Ex Machina, recalling the history of Quebec City.

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