Axons Rock the Award-Winning ROK Vegas
SJ LIGHTING SPECS 15 MEDIA SERVERS FOR "EASE" OF THE SYSTEM
April 2009
High End Systems Axon media servers played a big part in a Best Video System award for a Las Vegas club. SJ Lighting was honored in Club World magazine's 2009 Club World Awards for the video system design in the Rok Vegas nightclub. Located in the New York New York Hotel & Casino, the club design features the first installation of a 360-degree seamless video screen in Las Vegas.
The video screen presented challenges in size and surface. "At 75 feet long by 40 feet wide by 12 feet high, and a 360-degree elliptical surface, it is not an easy screen onto which to project," explains club designer Stephen Lieberman, president of SJ Lighting in Los Angeles. "The Axons made it possible to do such a unique installation."
The Axon media server – powered by the award-winning DL.3 graphics engine and featuring an extensive onboard collection of images – proved to be the solution to this unique installation. Lieberman specified 15 Axons for the project. Lieberman says, "The Axon was our first choice of media servers for several reasons: ease of installation and software, ease of image blending, ease of curve correction, and DMX and Art-Net capabilities based on our control system specifications."
He continues, "The Axon is an extremely robust machine with all of the tools we needed to get the job done. All of this is run from the lighting console, which allows us the flexibility to run the system in a 'live' environment. Cloning content from server to server is very simple – and all of the management functions of the server are very user friendly."
Digital Media Design's Scott Chmielewski programmed the 15 Axon media servers to project logos and powerful moving images onto the screen.
Because of the uniqueness of the design, Lieberman says tech support was also a key factor in his equipment specification. "High End Systems has always been known for its customer service and support–this was a critical factor when deciding to use the Axon server. In these environments, it's inevitable that we will be on the phone with tech support, and I knew the company would be there to back us up when we really needed it. This system's high level of visibility meant that there was no room for error on the systems design. Overall, I'm very happy with the performance of this equipment and so is my client."