LED bar opinions?

Ok, I'm looking at LED bars capable of doing pixel mapping, so need to be capable of independant control of the 'elements' and have a reasonable number of elements per bar (min 8, ideally more), and tri-leds would be nicest, although well clustered separate RGB leds would do I guess.

SO far it looks like the Showtec Pixel Bar 12 gives most bang for buck, but wondered if people were using anything else with success?

The Varytec Gigabar II looks like it might cut it for purely eye candy back of stage effects, but not enough output for uplighting or stage lighting tasks. Unfortunately I can't find a manual to see how many channel/elements it has. I've read some comments about 26 DMX channels, which would suggest 8xRGB elements and dimmer and something else like mode.

For that sort of effect, they appear to be 'cheap'.

Check out the video for the ADJ Mega Tri Bar which are about £1100 for 4

WOW!!... 1800 seems like a bloody good deal now lol

... shame they look nice and bright!