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1 June, 2017
Products & Solutions
QSC Debuts New AcousticDesign Column Surface-Mount Loudspeakers
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (May 31, 2016) - QSC, LLC, announces the addition of column surface-mount loudspeakers to its AcousticDesign (AD) Series. This premium line extension, which will debut at InfoComm 2017, is ideal for a wide variety of foreground and background applications and solves reverberant issues in high-ceiling spaces. The new AD-S802T has eight 2.5” vertically-oriented drivers while the AD-S162T has sixteen 2.5” vertically-oriented drivers, both are high quality, 70/100V or 8 ohm bypass, full-range systems. They come equipped with a unique pan/tilt mounting system that offers multiple positioning locations, allowing the loudspeaker to remain close to the wall while offering the flexibility to deliver up to a -20° downward tilt. This makes installation even easier and reduces “live load” labor time while on the ladder. As part of the…
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31 May, 2017
Products & Solutions
QSC Announces Next-Generation Q-SYS Enterprise Core Processors
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (May 31, 2017) – [De, Fr, Es] –QSC, LLC, is excited to announce new additions to the Q-SYS™ Enterprise Core category. Running exclusively on Dell server hardware, these industry-first solutions combine the processing capabilities of the Q-SYS realtime operating system with the Dell R730XL hardware platform. The result is the only IT-grade solution available on the market that brings audio, video and control (AV&C) processing into the datacenter. These new Q-SYS Enterprise Core processors represent the first fully integrated AV&C solution demonstrating the future of the industry and its shift towards standards-based IT platforms. The use of standard, mainstream hardware reflects a typical enterprise IT environment and provides several benefits, particularly for corporate clients and global enterprises, including: Centralized Shared…
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26 May, 2017
Corporate
Pirates 5 Has Grand Premiere in Shanghai
Last March at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, one of the highlights of the cinema industry’s largest annual trade event was a screening of Disney’s upcoming blockbuster, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”, the latest in the Pirates franchise. Each year, the aptly-named 4,000 seat Colosseum at Caesars Palace is transformed into the world’s largest movie theatre, a colossal joint effort between QSC, Dolby, Boston Light and Sound and the Colosseum technical crew. Disney executives were so thrilled with the outcome that they invited QSC and Dolby to Shanghai to do it again – this time for the worldwide premiere of the film in the Grand Theatre at the Shanghai Disney Resort. Like the Colosseum at Caesar’s, the Grand Theatre was not originally designed to be a movie theatre; it is normally used for theatrical stage productions. At over 1,000 seats, it’s larger than…
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17 May, 2017
Featured Case Studies
[AV] Irvine Offers Their Clients Endless Possibilities in Event Sound with QSC
Irvine, CA (May 2017) — Kris Plourde, president/CEO of N-Effect Productions, recently opened a state-of-the-art 25,000-sq.-ft. event, meeting and production facility in Southern California’s Orange County that offers clients endless possibilities in an event space with the best in sound, lighting and video technologies. [AV] Irvine, a 9,000-plus-sq.-ft. configurable space housed within N-Effect Productions’ headquarters, features nearly 200 lighting fixtures and a 30-foot LED wall, with sound systems from QSC including WL3082 WideLine-8 line array loudspeakers and GP218-sw subwoofers powered by PLD4.5 processing amplifiers. After years of having to make compromises in rented venues for his event clients, Plourde purchased the land near Irvine Spectrum Center and Irvine Meadows Amphitheater and designed, developed and built [AV] Irvine from the ground up. “I’ve been in…
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11 May, 2017
Training & Events
QSC Announces New Online Training Platform
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (May 11, 2017) – QSC, LLC, is excited to announce the launch of its new online training platform. This site offers several new features to help improve end user experience and make learning simpler for the company’s award-winning training programs. The launch coincides with the release of Q-SYS™ Level 1 Training in German and French adding to the existing English, Spanish and Mandarin versions. The platform also provides training on the QSC TouchMix digital mixers as well as several other of its loudspeaker and amplifier lines. Best of all, QSC online training content is open to the public and free-of-charge. New User Profiles and Updated Assessments The new QSC online training platform features new user profiles, allowing customers to easily track progress through courses, submit final designs for certification, access prior…
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27 March, 2017
Products & Solutions
QSC Announces TMS Support for USL CMS-2200
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (March 27, 2017) – QSC is pleased to announce Theatre Management System (TMS) support for the USL CMS-2200 media server. On Friday March 24, 2017, comScore’s Hollywood Software released a software patch for its Theatre Command Center (TCC3) TMS which includes full integration with the USL CMS-2200 Media Server. comScore’s TCC3 connects theatres, centralizes content management and automates the transfer of features, trailers and encryption keys. TCC manages more than 15,000 screens worldwide through its partnerships with several of the leading cinema Network Operations Centers (NOCs). “The integration of our media server with comScore’s TCC marks yet another very significant milestone for QSC,” says Barry Ferrell, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for QSC. “Since our acquisition of USL in September of last year, the…
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27 March, 2017
Corporate
Steve Hatton Joins QSC as Cinema Product Specialist
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (March 27, 2017) – QSC is pleased to announce that experienced cinema technician Steve Hatton has joined the QSC Cinema team. Steve has nearly 20 years of experience in all phases of cinema sound and projection system design, installation, and servicing. As president of his own service company, Sound and Imaging Concepts, Steve oversaw the installation of hundreds of cinema projects throughout the United States. Prior to running Sound and Imaging Concepts, Steve worked for Shaver Sound Inc., troubleshooting and maintaining 35mm projection systems and coordinating digital cinema conversions. As Cinema Product Specialist, Steve will provide assistance to QSC customers requiring technical support both pre- and post-sales. “As the QSC product catalog continues to expand and our technology offering becomes more complex, customer…
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2 February, 2017
Products & Solutions
Accessibility Technology Requirements for Cinema
QSC announces the availability of a new white paper which details new requirements recently announced by the United States Department of Justice on equipping cinemas with specialty access systems for the hearing and visual impaired.
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30 January, 2017
Corporate
InAVate - Setting the Agenda: TJ Adams, QSC
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23 January, 2017
Corporate
QSC Announces First QSC Certified Theatres
Costa Mesa, CA (January 23, 2017) – QSC, the cinema industry’s leading supplier of cinema exhibition solutions, announces the first “QSC Certified” theatres. QSC Certified Theatres are equipped with complete sound systems from QSC, and meet a set of technical guidelines for equipment, projection, acoustics, and room design, to ensure an outstanding moviegoing experience. The very first QSC Certified Theatre was screen 6 of the Kinopolis Mathäser Filmpalast in Munich, Germany, which opened in August, 2016. The first two U.S.-based QSC Certified Theatres are Goodrich Theatres Kendall 11 GDX in Oswego, Illinois and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema theatre in Ashburn, Virginia. The QSC Certified Theatre at the Mathäser Filmpalast also happens to be one of the world’s largest Dolby® Atmos® cinemas, with 835 seats and a 20.6-meter wide screen, providing an outstanding image and…
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23 January, 2017
Products & Solutions
QSC Provides Glimpse into the Future of Audio, Video and Control Processing at ISE Amsterdam
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (January 23, 2017) – QSC, LLC, announces a groundbreaking technology demonstration that will run existing 4th generation Q-SYS™ software on a high-performance standard Dell EMC PowerEdge R730 server. This industry-first demonstration provides a glimpse into the future of the market where larger installations use centralized data center processing. The demonstrations will take place at the Integrated Systems Conference (ISE) Show, February 7-10, 2017 at stand 7-Q170. The Q-SYS Platform is centered on audio, video and control (AVC) solutions that take advantage of existing IT hardware, protocols and standards. The Q-SYS Platform uses standard Intel™ processing, Linux™ operating system services and IEEE networking protocols. The technology demonstrated at ISE is the next evolution of this design paradigm, decoupling existing Q-SYS…
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10 January, 2017
Products & Solutions
QSC Announces New Q-SYS I/O Flex Channel Expander
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (January 10, 2017) – QSC, LLC, is pleased to introduce the Q-SYS I/O-8 Flex Channel Expander. Featuring eight flexible audio I/O channels, a QSC exclusive technology first seen on the award-winning Q-SYS Core 110f Processor, I/O-8 Flex allows users to easily configure each channel via Q-SYS Designer Software as either a fully balanced mic/line input with phantom power or a line level output. It also offers PoE+ support for simple, single-cable deployments plus an auxiliary DC power input that can be used for redundancy where required. With the same chassis and mounting solution as the QSC SPA Series power amplifiers, the I/O-8 Flex is ideal for mounting under the table in a conference room, on the wall or in a rack. Acting as a Q-SYS peripheral, the I/O-8 Flex Channel Expander offers local Audio-to-USB bridging for integration with…
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10 January, 2017
Products & Solutions
QSC Introduces Q-SYS Core 510i Integrated Core Processor
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (January 10, 2017) – QSC, LLC, introduces the Q-SYS™ Core 510i Integrated Core processor. An evolution of the Q-SYS Platform, the Core 510i processor leverages the latest Intel™ platform using a QSC-developed Linux™ realtime operating system (RTOS) to deliver the most powerful audio/video/control (AVC) solution available. The Core 510i processor offers the most flexible audio I/O configuration options of any processor in the Q-SYS catalog, with card-based I/O as well as native Q-LAN network channel and AES67 capabilities. It is ideal for applications that require a diverse mixture of analog, digital and networked audio connectivity, including mid- to large-sized meeting spaces and hospitality applications. Two Modes for Maximum Flexibility Unlike any other Q-SYS processor, the Core 510i can be deployed in two different software…
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21 December, 2016
Corporate
QSC Wins Two Innovative Product Awards
QSC Headquarters, Costa Mesa, CA (December 20, 2016) – QSC, LLC, is pleased to announce Q-SYS™ Designer Software and AcousticDesign™ Series pendant-mount (AD-P) loudspeakers were voted by Sound & Video Contractor readers as the Most Innovative Products of 2016. With over 70 products submitted, readers voted for electronic and mechanical innovations that best celebrates the engineering and engineers behind the products. “This is a great honor for QSC Systems to be recognized by the industry,” says Joe Pham, President & CEO of QSC. “Software advances in the Q-SYS platform and advances in pendant loudspeaker technology are some of the best examples of QSC’s product innovation. Through Q-SYS software, we have built an audio/video/control platform unlike anything on the planet. And the AcousticDesign Series loudspeakers offer superior sound quality and features to make…
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15 December, 2016
Corporate
QSC Named Top Workplace in Orange County for the Sixth Time
Costa Mesa, CA (December 15, 2016) – QSC, LLC is pleased to announce it has been named by the Orange County Register as one of the Top Workplaces in Orange County for the sixth time. 2016 was a great year for QSC as its employees recognized it once again, as a top workplace in Orange County. The Orange County Register’s Top Workplaces awards are in their ninth year. The Register again partnered with Workplace Dynamics LLP to survey employees across the county. Employees were asked to respond anonymously to 26 statements about their workplace experience and the leadership of their companies. The company rankings are based on the employees’ responses to these statements on a seven-point scale. A numerical value was attached to each statement, allowing Workplace Dynamics to create an overall score for each company. “I am very proud our hardworking employees…
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