Zero 88 Jester ML48 in Taman Budaya Kuantan
Zero88 Jester ML48 in Taman Budaya Kuantan
Recently Taman Budaya Kuantan in Pahang has upgraded their Lighting Control Desk to the new Zero 88 Jester ML48 a 48 channel desk Lighting Desk with ability to control moving heads. This was to replace the old Strand desk.
Taman Budaya Kuantan is located in front of JKKN building which is on the way to Teluk Chempedak, and once you pass the main traffic lights junction, just follow the signboard to Seri Malaysia Hotel on the left side of the road just before the Vistana Hotel.
Besides the open stage or platform located in front of the JKKN building, there is also an Auditorium inside the building, where the arts, theatres and cultural performances are held.
Taman Budaya Kuantan Pahang
Taman Budaya Kuantan Auditorium
In the Auditorium where the mixtures conventional theatre Lightings and Effect Lightings like DMX controlled LED color Par and Moving Head use in any production require an integrated control desk to control both the conventional lighting and effect lighting. Normally you will find this in a larger desk like in big auditorium or theater. The choice of Zero 88 Jester ML48 control desk was made because of ease to program of the moving head for the effect while storing the scene in sub master or memory.
The Jester ML48 offer users a cost effective solution for control of up to 30 moving lights. The consoles have effects engines, the ability to store palettes or preset focuses and use the comprehensive Zero 88 fixture library.
The JesterML48 desk also offers direct control of 48 dimmer channels. Playback is either via the submasters or through a traditional theatrical cue stack.
Zero 88 Jester ML48 training in progress
A full day Zero 88 Jester ML48 training was conducted on 26/4/2010 to the lighting operator. With the two dedicated lighting operator Mohd Shaiful and Ahmad Shah their learning of the desk was easily pick up and by the end of the training they can program the desk for the next coming shows.
For more info www.zero88.com
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Finally Fibre Optics Available to Home
In my last blog “Will Fibre Optics Coming to Home” I was wondering will the fibre optics infrastructure will be available to our Malaysian home. As we know fibre optics has been use widely in the backbone cable infrastructure and some business application but has not been available to home use. Finally the wait is over as we will be able to install new fibre optic link in our home as an option packages offered by Telekom Malaysia in the new Unifi packages launched last Wednesday.
Our normal telephone jack and computer network uses copper cabling to transfer data via electrical pulses. Copper cabling has been a standard for data transmission for many years. The maximum speed is up to 100Mbps.
What is Fibre Optic Cable?
Fibre Optic Cable is long thin strands of very pure glass or plastic about the diameter of a human hair. They are arranged in bundles called optical cables and used to transmit light signals for communications over long distances. It uses light pulses to transmit data and not electrical pulses. Light in a fiber optic cable travels through it by constantly bouncing off the cladding. The speed of transmission can be up to 1000Mbps or 1Gbps.
The advantage of using Fibre Optics is less expensive in cost in long run and able to enjoy 20 times faster in Internet browsing and able to watch high definition data live download without interruption. The ability to transmit voice, data and video (IPTV and Video-On-Demand) in the same cable infrastructure is the future for home technology.
In Malaysia there are currently only two internet service providers that offer the fibre optics broadband packages. Time dotCom offered Time Fibre Broadband a 10Mbps packages launched early this year and Telekom Malaysia with the Unify Fibre Optics Broadband packages offer up to 20Mbps packages launched last Wednesday.
I will definitely upgrade to fibre optics broadband packages once it is available in Puchong.
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Telekom Malaysia Launched UniFi High Speed Broadband
Telekom Malaysia Launched UniFi High Speed Broadband
Last Wednesday on 24 March Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) launched the new high speed broadband called UniFi Broadband. For resident packages will come in 3 prices – RM149, RM199 and RM249 a month.
The three packages are the VIP5, VIP10 and VIP20 and the connections speeds are offered in 5 Megabits per seconds, 10Mbps and 20Mbps packages. Similar packages will be offered to business subscribers for the same speeds at RM199 a month for 5Mbps, RM599 (10Mbps) and RM899 (20Mbps).
That means the up load and download data for VIP5 is 5 Mbps both ways.
The new service comes with a free standard installation worth RM300 and a free standard Customer Premise Equipment packages worth RM800 with a one year guarantee. Currently Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Shah Alam, Subang Jaya and Bangsar will have this access available now but soon more areas will be covered.
The only setback is that the packages is bundled with 8Mbps connection for a set-top-box for IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and an initial access to 22 channels as well as Video On Demand library and interactive channels. The packages will also include a Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (Dect) phone as well as a Streamyx Zone ID for wireless web access and a 2GB email box. Telekom Malaysia is trying to penetrate the cable TV with the broadband transmission.
This could be some problem with those who just wanted the high speed broadband for internet access and not with this entire bundle.
Another setback is there will be a download cap on UniFi High Speed Broadband which is calculated on daily basis and if the cap was exceeded then their connections would be throttled down to about 10% of the purchased speed.
UniFi’s 5Mbps service is capped at 60GB of data per month, 10Mbps service at 90GB while the 20Mbps service has a 120GB cap.
Bu the latest good news is Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) on Friday clarified that the monthly data volume cap for its consumer UniFi packages will not be implemented immediately.
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Incandescent lamps will be phase out in 2014
The traditional light bulb will no longer be available by January 2014. Bulbs like incandescent light bulbs are considered less energy efficient and will be obsolete in usage by then.
It will be fully replace by compact fluorescent lamps, fluorescent tube and LED lights. This was announced by Power, Green and Water Minister. He said by using more energy efficient bulbs will help reduce energy usage in the country by 1,074 gigawatts a year. The phasing out will be implemented in two phases. The first phase from January to December next year would involve stopping all production , import and sales of 100 watt or higher capacity bulbs.
The second phase from January 2012 till end of 2013 will see an end to the production, import and sales of all other light bulbs. By the LED bulbs will come in heavily as the alternative to incandescent bulbs. A 60W LED bulbs emits the same amount of light as a 250W convention light bulb.
Advantage of using Compact Fluorescent Lamp
- Efficient lamps – about 4 times more efficient than Incandescent lamp
- Long Life about 8,000 – 15,000 hours. Incandescent lamp is about 500 hours
Disadvantage of using Compact Fluorescent Lamp
- More expensive to buy
- Can not be dimmed
- Can not be used in very low temperature or very high temperatures (> 60 C)
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How to save on your electricity bill
The lighting bills for your outdoor house need not to be high. But trying to save electricity apart switching when not in used is not that difficult. Here are some tips :
1) Install motion-activated sensor lights that turn on when there is movement in the area as to regular outfoor floodlights that are constantly switching on and consuming your electricity.
2) Consider using low voltage lights or even solar lights to provide outdorr accent lighting.
3) Energy saving bulbs are plenty selling in the store and consider buying them will help the bills a bit.
4) LED outdoor lighting is an alternative choice to provide accent lighting around your house.
5) Modern solar lights stay lit for hours and since they have no wires connected them, they are adpatable for your landscape.
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Is Acoustic & Lighting the Sole Distributor for Sennheiser in Malaysia?
Rumors has surface recently that Acoustic & Lighting has signed a deal with Sennheiser Asia to become the Sole Distributor for Sennheiser MI range of microphones for Malaysia. For many years Acoustic & Lighting is just one of the dealers for Sennheiser in Malaysia and there are a few other Sennheiser dealers but now there is only one.
Acoustic & Lighting has been a pioneer in AV distributors in Malaysia and in the recent years with the aggressive marketing they have signed a few strong deal with a few well know brand and now with Sennheiser. To be the sole distributors the company must commit a big number for the sales of microphones and it has to be bigger than total sales by a few dealers last time. This will not be easy. I do not know how much they have promised to the Sennheiser Asia but it is certainly a bigger turn over. With new showroom being renovated dedicated just for Sennheiser products other player will have to buy from him.
With the sudden change of the marketing strategy by the Sennheiser Asia will certainly benefited other microphone brand like AKG, Shure and other microphone brands. They will fill in the gap where other AV company is now without Sennheiser microphone. Their sales will suddenly increases as well since Sennheiser has replace G2 series with a more advance and expensive G3. Last year Sennheiser has launched G3 microphone is Renaissance Hotel KL.
Will these partnership of Sennheiser and Acoustic and Lighting benefit the market? We have to wait and see.
What happen to our business manner?
One of my business friends complains about the manner and the language the youngster use now a day. And I tend to agreed with him after he relates what happened to me. He received a few rude applications after he advertised the job vacancy in jobstreet. One of the applicants really triggers his frustration.
This is what he received.
He has no choice but to reply in this way.
I must say that in general the younger generation is different from the time when internet age is still an infant. Fifteen years ago when web site and internet is just for the small group of people, most of us graduate know or has been taught the proper way to apply for a job vacancy. At that time it was through by writing a proper application letter. A proper application letter will tell the different either we are in the successful list or they will throw away the letter.
In this world where the internet, facebook, twitters and sms is worldwide we tend to forget the proper manner and language in everyday basic business use.
It does not help when the government changes the method of teaching or simplify the education to allow more passes in the exam. This does not bring well education to the majority of the students.
No wander my friend is not happy with the current education.
Season Greetings – Chinese New Year 2010
Season Greeting Chinese New Year 2010
Wishing all my friends, business partners and staffs a Happy Chinese New Year 2010. May the tiger year roar loudly. From the Management of Artistic Controls.
Will Fibre Optics coming to home
Most of the houses or offices will have at least one jack for telephone line and one jack for network line. How about having one more jack in the house for fibre optics cable to hook up to high speed broadband. Fibre optics has been widely used in industrial and AV system for faster signal loss free data transmission. If this technology is installed in every house you can plug in to watch high definition movie or do life-like video conference instead of just voice.
While the existing wall jacks will remain in place the new fibre optic link will open up a world of offerings via new high speed broadband. Each fibre optics cable no thicker than a piece of thread has the capacity to deliver services such as phone calls, high-definition TV programme and internet access.
So far for the high-definition TV programme only Astro Malaysia has launched the new Sattelite Transmission B yond offering pay services to watch HD content.
Fibre optic cable which uses light signals to transmit data can transfer up to 1000Mbps (1Gbps) whereas copper cable which uses electrical pulses to transmit data can transfer maximun up to 100Mbps. Currently TM Streamyx using copper telephone line offer up to 4Mbps packages.
Whether it can be implemented in Malaysia is remain unknown but Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan has started installing fibre optics in the housing area.
The Live Bands Are Back in Jalan P Ramlee
The 5 club operators in Jalan P. Ramlee are allow to have their live bands back again this week end by the local authority. The Beach Club, Thai Club, Aloha, Peppy Garden and Rum Jungle will have their live music back provided they do not play their music too loud.
Earlier on the 1st January 2010 the local authority decided to revoke their entertainment licenses on New Year’s Day after numerous warnings by the DBKL last year to lower the volume of the music. This is because the resident staying around the area complaining about the loud music.
Quiet night at the Beach Club - No Live Bands
During this time there were no live bands play in this area and you can only listen to piped in music when you step inside. Too quiet for Jalan P Ramlee and the scene were rather dead and hollow. Jalan P. Ramlee is known for its vibrant music and nightlife with an average 5000 visitors mostly foreigners thronging the clubs during the weekends.
“Club owners must make an effort to tone down the volume and ensure the noise threshold is maintained at 65 decibels (dB) or less during the evening and at 55 dB during the day” said the authority. The permitted level for Jalan P. Ramlee is 60 decibels.
I wonder how they are going to measure the sound pressure level (SPL). Is it just outside the club or along the Jalan P Ramlee. Since the club is the open air concept they have to really tone down the loudness inside the club to 65 – 68db in order to have 65 db on the outside.
The last time I was there last year in one of the clubs I think the average sound pressure level (SPLs) inside the club was around 95 dB to 110 dB. To have 65 dB is like walking in a department stores or talking in a noisy office environments. I am not sure this time. I will check out the clubs in one of this day.
Unless they install soundproof devices inside the club to absorb the loudness they cannot really increase the music level.
According to Ronnie Chong who owns Poppy, Beach Club and Rum Jungle said he was happy with decision and would stick to the rules. We as light and sound company and the sound industry in general were happy with this decision also. Let the music play on.