WorldStage Expands Lighting Inventory

WorldStage, the new brand for Scharff Weisberg and Video Applications, has added to its inventory of lighting products.

"We continue to embrace new technologies, such as the latest in wireless DMX devices and the growing array of LED fixtures, as part of our commitment to offer customers the best and most innovative lighting products available today," says vice president of operations Josh Nissim. "We have also expanded our supply of the popular grandMA2 lighting consoles."

WorldStage is the first in the New York market to invest in City Theatrical's new SHoW DMX Neo and SHoW DMX SHoW Baby, which generated a lot of buzz at the recent PLASA 2011. SHoW DMX Neo features the high data fidelity of City Theatrical's award-winning SHoW DMX, as well as what the company describes as incredibly fast latency to ensure that wired and wireless DMX sources will appear exactly alike on a production. It features an extensive on-board user interface and advanced Ethernet gateway functions; an RDM controller, provided with the transceiver, permits laptop monitoring.

Another addition to the company's lighting inventory is Clay Paky's popular Sharpy, a small 189W moving head. Weighing in at 16kg, Sharpy produces a perfectly parallel, laser-like beam, which is sharply defined and free of any halo or discoloration around the edges. It offers 14 different colors and 17 gobos for beam shaping and mid-air effects. With its light weight and modest footprint, Sharpy is small enough to be fitted anywhere.

At LDI, WorldStage acquired the Martin MAC Aura, billed as the first compact LED moving head wash light with zoom. The new fixture offers eye-candy aura effects and also functions as a single-lens wash with fully pre-mixed color. The optical system combines multicolor LEDs with backlight aura color mixing to produce an all-new visual palette in a compact, lightweight unit.

WorldStage has also purchased the Philips Vari*Lite VLX Wash luminaire, which provides all the benefits of LED technology and the best visual performance characteristics of traditional automated fixtures. VLX is billed as offering stunning colors and intensity, multi-year source life, and high reliability.

Lastly, in terms of lighting fixtures, WorldStage acquired Prism Projection's RevEAL Studio, a solid-state LED alternative to conventional Fresnel-type fixtures that vastly reduces power consumption, heat, and maintenance without compromising lighting design, the company says RevEAL Studio provides high lumen output, unparalleled color rendering, tunable CCT from 2,800-8,000K, a wide color palette with repeatability, and TrueSource color management technology for guaranteed beam quality.