Impact Video takes Barco LED on stage for the 31st People’s Choice Awards.
Impact Video in partnership with the Norm Levin Company provided video support for the 31st Annual People’s Choice Awards. This year’s show was broadcast live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, CA on January 9, 2005 on the CBS Television Network. Production designer, Bruce Rodgers of Venice, CA based Tribe Design created a set featuring the integration of Projection, LED and Plasma Display technology. Combined with the talents of Lighting Designer, Simon Miles, this year’s show set beautifully kicked off the 2005 Awards Show Season.
Impact Video’s two Barco ILite 8mm LED screens measuring 9’h x 12’w were prominently featured in both the stage right and stage left presenter areas to playback awards packages, show logos and image magnification of award presentations. Impact also provided sixteen 40” Plasma Screens in 4:3 aspect ratio to display the People’s Choice Awards logo. These Plasmas were built into a custom set wall as a closedown screen for presenter entrances. Projection support was provided by the Norm Levin Company to include an 18’h x22’ Rear Projection Screen, upstage center, powered by four Digital Projection 28 SX 16,000 Lumen Video Projectors.
Hosted by CBS’s “Listen Up” sitcom stars Jason Alexander and Malcom-Jamal Warner, the People’s Choice Awards is one of the few shows where awards are chosen specifically by fans across multiple categories that include Music, Television and Film. Celebrity award winners in attendance included, Cheryl Crow, Mel Gibson, Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey, Marg Helgenberger and Will Smith among others.
Impact Video is North America's premier provider of Indoor/Outdoor LED technology. Impact has over fourteen years experience within the corporate, entertainment, production, retail, sports & outdoor event markets. The company’s reputation for consistently delivering a superior quality of equipment and service has become well known throughout these industries.
About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, provides visualization and display solutions for professional markets. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco is active worldwide and has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco is quoted on Euronext Brussels and is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company (Euronext: BAR; Reuters: BARBt.BR; Bloomberg: BAR BB).
For more information, please contact
Inge
Govaerts
Public Relations Manager
Barco - Media & Entertainment
Telephone
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inge.govaerts@barco.com
