Talk:Parabolic aluminized reflector light

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Can whoever write the following please name their source?:

"The oval pool characteristic of traditional PARs are falling into disuse with modern PARs favoring a PC based lens. This can be attributed to their popularity in Rock and Roll shows where a pool of light is preferred to an oval of light, which is more useful in stage lighting to create areas. A second reason for this change is that the style of car headlamps that PARs were originally based on are no longer mass produced, so most companies making PARs have more control over the lens than previously and are deferring to their largest customer."

Because as far as I know (lighting engineer of 10 years experience and actively working) it's entirely untrue. Is this some kind of US/UK thing? Anyway, for now, I've removed it. Bryson430 19:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name changes

Ok, some IP user just came through and changed a lot of "lights" to "luminaires". As I don't call them that, I am grossly opposed. However, some of you probably call it that, Should I switch it back?KeepOnTruckin 19:08, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Luminaire is more technically correct than "light" so it could stay. Or, preferably, maybe we should make it Lighting Fixture in keeping with the rest of the Wikipedia articles. Bryson430 10:48, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Meanwhile, the IP user also added a section that included a factually incorrect description of how a Source 4 works. I changed it back. Bryson430 11:01, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

What is somthing about a source 4 doing in the PAR article? Speaking of pars and S4's though, I will be able to get a picture of a PARnel very soon. Do ya think it needs it own subsection in SLI article or here or Fresnel? KeepOnTruckin 21:12, 5 September 2006 (UTC)