High End Systems' Catalyst Receives EDDY Award

High End Systems' Catalyst(tm) recently received a top honor for lighting products at the 10th Anniversary of the EDDY Awards in New York, hosted by Entertainment Design magazine.

High End's Al Ridella and Brad Schiller accepted the award during the Dec. 7 ceremony at John Jay College Theatre.

To recognize technical advancement in the fields of professional lighting and audio, the editors of Entertainment Design magazine work with a panel of industry experts to select a group of products that are new to the market this year. Catalyst made its debut at a number of trade shows in 2001.

"This is a very exciting group of products that point to the future of entertainment technology," says David Johnson, editor of Entertainment Design. "This has been a very strong year in the development of lighting products, especially accessories that can be used by people in all aspects of the industry." Here's what the editors said about Catalyst:

"The worlds of lighting design and projection design merge in this
intriguing system co-developed by High End Systems and Wynne-Willson Gottelier. Designed to provide real-time control of every aspect of an image directly from a lighting console, the Catalyst features a periscopic orbital transmissive device that can adapt to the front of any large-venue, three-chip DLP projector, plus a software package containing a variety of moving and still imagery and gobos. Lighting designers for concerts, sporting events and other large-scale projects are drooling over this one."

The is the fourth award for Catalyst. It won two top awards at PLASA in September for Design Excellence and Technical Innovation, and Product of the Year for Lighting/Entertainment at LDI 2001 in November.

Catalyst is currently making its splashy debut this season at New York's Madison Square Garden for the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers games.