Barco supplies more than 1000 LED tiles for 54th Eurovision Song Contest
Kuurne, Belgium, 15 May 2009. Barco, a leading provider of video and lighting solutions, is proud to announce that its rental partner Procon has installed a wide range of Barco solutions for this year's Eurovision Song Contest, taking place in Moscow.
This year, Europe's favorite TV show is taking place in the Olympiyski Indoor Arena in Moscow. Viewers from around Europe tune in to watch 42 countries compete. Every year, the set designers of the Eurovison song contest raise the bar of visual creativity and this year is no exception.
For this year's edition, Barco partner Procon Event Engineering has 40 trailers of technical equipment, featuring many creative LED, digital projection, lighting and image processing from Barco. Viewers can see a total of 735 OLite LED tiles, 6200 MiPIX modules, six SLM R12+ projectors and six CLM R10+ projectors used with the PufferSpheres®. All video is fully controlled by Barco image processing equipment. Two Encore systems and 24 Image Pro HD's make sure the show runs smoothly. In addition, Eurovision also features 18 Catalyst media server systems and a Wholehog lighting control desk.
Morten Carlsson, CEO at Procon Event Engineering, says “For a high profile show like the Eurovision Song Contest, we need equipment that is 100% dependable. From our longstanding relationship with Barco we know that they can deliver video and lighting equipment we can trust to perform.”
Carl Rijsbrack, VP Product Management for Barco's events business, was delighted: “We have been supplying projection, LED and image processing for the most creative stage designs in recent years including recent tours of George Michael, Coldplay and Snow Patrol. The Eurovision Song Contest is definitely one of the creative landmarks of the year, so we are extremely proud to play a vital role in this trendsetting stage design.“
About Barco
Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3500 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 725 million euro in 2008.
