Idea for christmas lighting

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Here is an idea for christmas lighting.
I think they did not use X10 for it.

http://www.avolites.org.uk/movies/lights.wmv

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i think this movie is all over the forum posted multiple times :) but still its a good one, and x10 is not fast enough for this..

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Snelvuur,

Didn't know that.
How can I remove this topic from the forum?

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It's an old movie from 2005, and yes it's been posted many times (still nice to see)
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Wow, this thing has really gone crazy with the viewers. Let me first start by saying that this is not my house. Regardless of what any of the comments read, this house really does exist, I have seen it with my own eyes and nothing you see in the video is trickery, it's all real.
This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). His 2005 display includes over 25,000 lights that he spent nearly two months and $10,000 to hook up. So that the Williams' neighbors aren't disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment.

The rough quality of the video has led some viewers to believe it was put together in stop-action form from still photographs, but that is an artifact of the high compression used in the clip circulated via e-mail. Mr. Williams has posted instructions for recreating his "Wizard in Winter" sequencing, and another of his choreographed Christmas light music shows can be viewed here.

Carson's Christmas display proved so popular that it was featured in a Miller Lite beer commercial in December 2005. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

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@wifi,

Your comments opened a new vision on the christmas lights video for me.
I just found the video on a theater lighting site and did not know that it was so popular.
There seems to be 'christmas lights' contest.

Thanks for the update.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp

http://www.lightorama02.com/2008/winners/pages/main.htm

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