• CEDIA EXPO 2007
  Summer's here and the AV Expo season is with us again. I've been ask to present the ETS 12 class on System Testing and Troubleshooting again this year, and am glad to help CEDIA spread the experience of industry professionals on to the newer member of the trade.
  
  I will also be giving a class on Working with Independent Programers ESPM 7 for those interested contracting specialist programming skills and experience for their projects.

• Back to the Sea
  It's hard to tell where the next project is going to be sometimes, especially if it's floating! Cloney Audio landed a substantial AV refit contract for Luxury motor yacht Mosaique back in spring and we flew out to France to help with the programming. Yachts present their own special set of challenges and it was a push to complete in the 5 day window, but worth it.

• Rooms with a view
  One of the "benefits" of being near the top of your profession is getting to do things first. Crestron's RoomView 7 is a big step forward in features and implementation for remote system management and online help facilities. We got to be the first UK CAIP to implement RV7, for Quadrant Audio Visual at the University of Warwick Business School.

• Big in Dublin
  We've always been happy to work in Ireland, a beautiful country, with great people, and there is so much development going on too. So we were delighted to help our friends at System Video with a substantial residential project in south Dublin: 24 zones of audio, 16 Zones of Heating, 15 user interfaces, 7 HD sources, 6 audio sources, 8 HD displays, 3 Crestron processors and a HD Cinema to boot. It's a great system in a lovely home, we hope to bring you some pictures soon.

• CES & ISE 2007
  Audio Visual & Consumer Electronics industries are among the fastest changing markets there are, and it's important we keep abreast of what's coming in the near and medium term, so we can better advice our clients. The CES in Vegas and the ISE in Amsterdam, were host to some great new technology and gave us plenty of information we've been only too happy to share over the past few months.

• A trip to PLASA
  It was a bit of a trip down memory lane but we were delighted, when our friends at Radical Lighting, invited us to share there stand at this years Processional Light and Sound Association gathering at Earl's Court London. The needs of show control users can be quite different from those of residential or corporate use, but our many year experience in live entertainment, make ideally suited to help them. Watch this space for more news of our move into the show control arena

• The sound of Thunder
  Lucid take on two Crestron programming projects for Quadrant Solutions: The UK's first Polyvision Thunder system installed at Questmark. And 11 teaching rooms at Warwick Business School, with remote monitoring via Crestron RoomView application

• HDTV is here
  Just in time for the 2006 World Cup, the UK begins digital HDTV broadcasts; and Paragon Multimedia ask Lucid to design the HDTV upgrade to 3 executive boardrooms for one of the UK's leading broadcasters. Using the best technology available from Christie, Crestron, Fujitsu, Sony and others, we were able to specify three world class present spaces.

• Taking to Water
  Lucid joined with Extra Sensor Perfection AV to speed up the programming on motor yacht Dilbar's winter refit in Barcelona, on behalf of custom installer van Berge Henegouwen. The 66m luxury vessel was in fine shape when she returned to the water, with her new media server based entertainment systems.

• Dublin Calling
  Cloney Audio commission Lucid to reconfigure and reprogram the integration system for one their client's; home of one of Dublin's leading business families.

• European Independent Programmers Council
  Lucid Programming joins the inaugural meeting at ISE 2006, and along with the other initial members we pledged our cooperation to building a strong active support group, open to all independent programmers.

Feb 2006

• Lucid Fly's to Faro
  In December 2005 Lucid was commissioned to provide Crestron system design and integration proposals for a substantial private development in the Algarve

• Lucid joins the CAIP scheme
  After an exciting spell with one of the UK's premier Crestron integrators (In-Kontrol Ltd), Adrian Lloyd-Owen decided to offer his programming skills to all, founded Lucid Programming Ltd, and joining the Crestron Independent Programmers scheme.