Laser shows in the United States

Doing laser shows in the United States is quite a challenge: Not only are there a lot of restrictions and legal uncertainties, but there is also a massive requirement on filling in paperwork prior to being allowed to do any show. This makes it hard to bring up a laser show at all. That's why it amkes perfect sense to rely on laser show professionals for doing laser show in the USA.
Some very experienced laser show people work at Lasertainment (http://www.lasertainment.com), a company that was established about 30 years ago and specialized in doing all types of laser shows.
They recently put up some massive show for the Bingo Players in New York City ... check out the video:

Laser show control - ILDA or Network/LAN?

The market for laser show control solutions is basically shared between the two protagonists Pangolin  and Phoenix Showcontroller - but wait: they both belong to Pangolin Systems since beginning of 2013, so both solution from one provider.
Ok, both software types offer more or less similar features but their handling is slightly different. Both software solutions offer hardware to convert the digital computer signal to the analogue ILDA signal (standard low-level transfer protocol for laser show control; runs over a 25 pin parallel cable). But there are two main types of solution:
The USB interface has a rather short USB cable to the interface (so called DAC - Digital Analogue Converter), and then runs a long ILDA cable to the laser show system.
the second option is to run a long network cable to the DAC (or a LAN switch to distribute the signal, and then on to the interface), and then a short ILDA cable from the Network interface to the laser, e.g. 1 m.

The Network interfaces are rather nwe solutions. As they use the TCP/IP protocoll, they are compatible with all normal CAT%/6 cables and normal switches - so the conmtrol signal distribution is extremely easy.
especially in situations where it's necessary to run long cables from the FoH (Front of House) to the stage it's extremely comfortable to use network signal transmission.

Laserworld released a brand new LAN interface for Phoenix LIVE, Phoenix PRO and Phoenix PRO+, that has great output quality and is very easy to handle.

This kind of laser show control will make many shows much easier!

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Extra strong laser show demo on lake

Some colors are hard to do with show lasers in a laser show, but it is also a matter of laser show control if things work out or not. better rely on laser show professionals to do the high end jobs: Here you see a laser show demonstartion over a lake in bavaria (Germany) for a customer. A RTI NANO RYGCB 35 system was used to do these effects. The laser was operaterated by the laser show professionals from Laserworld.

Permanent Laser show installation on RAMA VIII Bridge in Bangkok

Laser Show installations in a larger scale are quite rare in Europe. usually only very small applications take place and especially fixed outdoor installations are extremely hard to find.
In Bangkok one of the very large bridges there, the RAMA VIII bridge, got a permanent illumination installation with different LED lighting and high power laser systems. The light show and laser show takes place every night and the story, that is told by light and laser is told in audio on the tourist ships that pass the bridge.
A laser show at such scale needs strong show laser light systems and a reliable outdoor laser concept - so the laser show can withstand heavy weather conditions, big temperature changes and high humidity environment.
To Incorporate all such features, the people in charge for the project decided to have their laser show installation done by the experts from laserworld and RTI, so the German engineers did the on site laser show installation and took care for the complex installation and show synchronization.