The Bright Spark

Each team has the ‘doer’ guy. The one guy who just quietly gets things done. In India, we are over-staffed and under-trained. Let’s not go into reasons here. I just hope that as more and more technology creeps in, our teams will be better trained so everybody’s life becomes better.

Smaller shows. Honestly, for a lot of the reasons mentioned above – smaller shows seem to run smoother and are more detailed in India. The single reason again is manpower. Smaller shows around the world are very restricted due to manpower.

the largest stadium screen in Japan, with a total area of more than 1000 square meters. It is perfectly lit with two fully equipped H5 controllers and six CVT10-S fibre converters from NovaStar.

The NovaStar H Series LED Screen offers a multitude of benefits, such as:

1. All-In-One Splicer and Controller

H Series provides powerful signal processing capabilities. It’s the first all-in-one splicer and controller in the industry, which greatly simplifies system integration. H Series features true 4K video processing. With the leading image processing technology in the industry, it can give you an astonishing visual effect, truly making it the perfect solution for fine-pitch LED applications.

2. Muti-Input/Output Cards

Max 15 input cards + Max 5/10 (Enhanced) output cards, suitable for large scene screen such as the stadium. It also supports 12 GB SDI to meet input requirements.

3. Super Stability

Hot plugs for inputs and outputs and smart data recovery functions provide safety, stability, and convenient operation. An industrial-grade redundant power module ensures stable operation for the course of your entire application.

4. High Image Quality

H Series built-in high-definition image processing engine, support for HDR, wide color gamut transmission, high contrast and abundant colors，they provide more details in both light and shadow. NovaStar’s HQ high-quality scaling technology, which includes an adaptive content scaling engine. This technology prevents loss of details and border errors when zooming out, as well as jagged edges and blurring when zooming in, allowing for a perfect recovery of the original image.

5. Flexibility Layers

H series supports numerous layers with an unrestricted arrangement. Each output daughterboard provides 16 layers. The layers can freely cross different output loading areas while keeping layer size the same. Layers can be in any position, overlapped, or unlimited scaled. It supports functions such as image capture, layer configuration, layer rotation and more.

However small a show in India – there is a team dedicated to do that show and nothing else.

Overseas, there is usually just one guy managing – sound, lights and video. Often, that gentleman also carries other duties like housekeeping. He is swamped and can barely cope.

Technical packages are tight and rigid. It’s tough getting a spare mike or a decent rehearsal. If it’s a performing

(Continued from page 42) company, a performer usually doubles as a techie.

Lead times are long.

In India – even the smallest Ganpati mandap, a small business venue or a local theater will be manned by a dedicated techie. Rarely so overseas. Hey –I’m generalizing, so don’t call me out on the specifics.

I’m seeing it as a good thing. It creates employment. Gives the young guys something useful to learn and keeps them off the streets. This access to manpower also allows our teams to be mobilized and ready in hours.

It’s up to us to nurture the more enthusiastic ones to specialize – especially if they not distracted with other duties. I hope they find both mentors and opportunities to go onto greater things.

Let me end with a big shoutout to Lolapalooza. Foreign design. Indian equipment. Indian technicians. Everything came together smoothly and we rocked.

Hope opportunities like this brings us all up to bigger things.

AV INNOVATIONS GALORE AT ISE...

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Day Two of the show saw various conferences and summit, namely: the Digital Signage Summit, Control Rooms Summit, and Education Technology Summit. The keynote for the Digital Signage Summit – co-produced by invidis Consulting and Integrated Systems Events - was delivered by Florian Rotberg, Managing Director, invidis Consulting and Stefan Schieker, Partner, invidis Consulting. The Control Rooms Summit was introduced to the attendees by Chris Dreyfus-Gibson, Vice Chairman, International Critical Control Room Alliance.

The Education Technology Summit was chaired over by Dr. Gill Ferrel, the Content Chair, ISE’s Education-Themed Conferences, and the speakers for the summit consisted of Paul Bailey, Head of Codesign, Jisc, Jo-Ann Kamp, Lecturer,

Researcher, and Coordinator, Fontys University, and Ziwei (Jo) Huang, Edtech Product Manager, FeedBackFruits.

Day Three kickstarted with the Smart Workplace Summit, where Amelia Kallman returned to the podium to welcome the attendees. The Live Events Summit followed, where Stew Hume, Editor, Total Production International, addressed the audience with a detailed speech.

The four-day conference and summit programme also had English and Spanish-centric conferences and summits running parallelly, namely Tech Talks English and Tech Talks Español, presided over by several different speakers throughout the day.

The ISE Barcelona 2024 is set to return from 30 January to 02 February, 2024 at Fira Barcelona, Gran Via Venue, Spain.