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Hog III’s a Winner on Swiss Lottery Show
Every Saturday night in Switzerland, most TV sets are tuned to ‘Benissimo’, an entertaining lottery show on TCP TV. Audiences are treated to entertainment and a chance to win two million Swiss Franks.
Two Wholehog III console systems guide the show, which is a mix of acrobats, comedians and musicians such as Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Meat Loaf, Eros Ramazotti, Sting and Phil Collins.
LD Matt Finke of Loop Light lighting design in Marburg, Germany, has specified the console. “We decided after our first and very positive experiences with Hog III at the Astra Testcamp, to switch to the third generation of Hog consoles for the Benissimo show,” Finke says. “We shipped our own new Wholehog III to Zurich. Arcus, the German distributor, supported the show with a backup console and an additional DP2000 (DMX Processor) and one Playback Wing. We ran the whole system connected in a
network environment as suggested by Chris Ferante from Flying Pig Systems.”
Finke likes the console’s networking features. “It is a great function to have a master server that does the master show and a second desk that loads its data from this master,” he says. “You can work on either console and will always be up to date in your show. The function is very stable on both
consoles and I was running the system like this the whole time through rehearsals and the show.”
Finke continues: “For me it is a big advantage -- during the first days of rehearsals I prefer to stay in the studio rather than to watch everything only through the monitors. So after the first day of testing all my equipment, I put the master console and all the DP 2000s and my 6 DMX wires in the controlling room and then I took my second console from the studio, and connected to the network with the Ethernet cable. This gave me a new dimension of mobility to move out of the way of camera positions, and but still have the flexibility of being able to control all the DP2000s from any console on the network.”
“Everything was more than positive,” Finke says.
1st April 2004
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