City Theatrical at LDI 2011

	SHoW DMX Neo and SHoW DMX SHoW Baby

City Theatrical is launching a wide range of new products at LDI 2011, October 28-30 in Orlando, Florida, including the U.S. debut of SHoW DMX Neo and SHoW DMX SHoW Baby. These are the latest developments in City Theatrical's SHoW DMX line of wireless DMX products, which are popular on Broadway and the West End and was also featured in the U2 360° Tour.

The company says SHoW DMX has the same data fidelity as SHoW DMX, as well as 7mS latency. The company says the on board user interface allows optimized control over output power, full or limited bandwidth broadcast, and the ability to broadcast less than the full DMX packet to shrink the radio footprint. For users who do not want to manually optimize their broadcast, SHoW DMX Neo also has "neo adaptive mode," which will select only open radio channels on which to broadcast, with no user intervention needed. SHoW DMX Neo will "heal" lost data packets, and has a SHoW DMX "neo classic mode" to allow communication with all existing SHoW DMX equipment.

SHoW DMX Neo has advanced Ethernet gateway functions, including dual Ethernet ports and accepts multiple show protocols such as sACN, Art-Net, and KiNet.

SHoW DMX Neo includes a RDM controller provided with the transceiver, which allows anyone to monitor RDM devices from their laptop during the show, perform all radio setup functions, and to check RDM responder functions such as receiver signal strength, battery voltage on SHoW DMX Dimmers, change DMX addresses, and any other RDM functions that are supported by any manufacturer's equipment on the system. SHoW DMX Neo serves as both an RDM responder and proxy and will discover and control any RDM equipment on the system, and do it quickly and smoothly. SHoW DMX Neo's RDM functions can also be controlled by any third-party RDM controller, including any of the growing number of lighting consoles with RDM control built in.

SHoW DMX SHoW Baby takes the wireless DMX radio and puts it into a small, inexpensive, simple-to-operate package. Each box is a transceiver, and by plugging a DMX cable in, it selects itself to be a transmitter. If nothing is plugged into the DMX in port, it selects itself to be a receiver. This is the only user-selectable option; everything else about the SHoW DMX SHoW Baby is completely plug and play. The SHoW DMX SHoW Baby's size, distinctive design, ease of use, and affordability make it the world's first consumer grade wireless DMX, the company says. Both SHoW DMX Neo and SHoW DMX SHoW Baby are manufactured by City Theatrical at its Carlstadt, New Jersey factory.

Also launching at LDI is the PDS-375 TR power/data supply for Philips Color Kinetics LED lighting fixtures, which, the company says, is rejoining the product line by customer demand. The PDS-375 TR is simple to operate, built ruggedly for touring, and is billed as being a great alternative to the more sophisticated City Theatrical power/data supplies such as the PDS-375 TRX and PDS-750 TRX when fewer features (no Ethernet, no built-in wireless DMX receiver, no multi-button user interface) are needed.

CTI is debuting Selador Desire D-60 LED fixtures from ETC. The new accessories include a full top hat, short full top hat, half top hat, egg crate louver, and barn door. Standard Source Four PAR accessories are available from City Theatrical for the new Selador Desire D-40 fixtures.

The company is also launching a new eight-leaf barn door specifically designed for the new ETC Source Four Fresnel.