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Entertainment Industry Organizations
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The primary audio engineering organization, which does much standards work, and also runs several conferences and audio trade shows around the world every year.
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ESTA is the primary entertainment standards-making body. It is currently at work on a variety of standards regarding entertainment control, especially ACN, or Advanced Control Network, and object-oriented control standard.
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IAAPA is the trade organization for themed entertainment and the amusement industry, including everything from rides to hot dog machines.
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Infocomm/ICIA is the trade association for the pro A/V market and runs the InfoComm trade show every year.
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The ILDA is the entertainment Laser industry trade association.
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The MMA is the manufacturer's organization which creates and publishes MIDI standard.
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The NFPA is the organization that created the National Electric Code, the Life Safety Code, and many other important safety standards.
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This is the national trade associations for systems contractors.
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PLASA is the European equivalent of ESTA. They sponsor a trade show in the fall (a few weeks before LDI), and publish an excellent magazine, Lighting and Sound International.
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SMPTE is the organization which developed and maintains the Time Code standards.
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The TEA is the trade association for themed entertainment, including theme parks, themed retail, etc.
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The USITT was the organization used to develop the DMX512 lighting control standard.
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Other Standards Organizations
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This group is pushing the development of the 1394 or FireWire standard.
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This is the American national standards body. ESTA is an ANSI standards making body.
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EIA and TIA work together on many standards for interfacing, such as the popular EIA/TIA serial standards.
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EIA and TIA work together on many standards for interfacing, such as the popular EIA/TIA serial standards.
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The IEEE is another major standards body. One of the standards generated by IEEE is 802.3--Ethernet.
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This is the site for the trade organization that developed USB.
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While Control Systems for Live Entertainment covers entertainment control systems for all aspects of the live entertainment industry, this site focuses on show control, technologies that allows a system designer to connect more than one show system together into a "meta" system. There are many other sites out there that cover lighting, sound, machinery, pyro, etc. This page is a clearing house for information about show control, so if I've missed anything, or you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know.
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