Brompton Technology & SmallHD among Engineering Emmy winners

The 75th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards were held last week and some familiar names were among the winners.

Some extremely prestigious companies have won Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards in the 75 years since they were first presented, and it’s good to see the Class of ’23 included some names that have featured regularly in these pages.

Brompton Technology's Tessera SX40 LED video processor was one of the first names read out from the envelope, an innovation that the Awards committee said “has been a key enabler of the revolution in using LED screens for virtual production… The SX40 has become a significant ingredient in a winning recipe utilized in virtual production studios worldwide. Software upgrades have further improved performance and optimized virtual production workflows, ensuring the greatest possible flexibility for the creative team while delivering the gold standard for color accuracy and on-camera visual performance.”

SmallHD bagged an Award too. 

“SmallHD's rugged and daylight-viewable production monitors have become a staple on every production set, from scripted dramas to live broadcasts,” said the committee. “SmallHD's hardware platform features an entirely custom electronic architecture that allows for continuous expansion of features and connectivity as well as enabling the unique industry-leading PageOS 5 monitoring software system. From the compact on-camera Smart 5 and Smart 7 series to the 4K production monitor line, SmallHD has created a unified and cohesive series of monitors that allow for accurate and consistent viewing and color reproduction across different cameras and applications, ensuring a consistent creative vision from set to final output.”

Elsewhere, there were awards for the Concept Overdrive Motion System, the Entertainment Identifier Registry, Riedel’s BOLERO Wireless Intercom, Waves Clarity Vx Pro, and the invaluable pCAM pro app for iOS that has been quite fairly described as “the Swiss Army knife of cinematography & photography apps.”

Also picking up awards were the International Telecommunications Union – Radiocommunications – Study Group 6 for the Standardization of High Dynamic Range Television; Grass Valley and NVISION stalwart Birney Dalton who built the first fiber-optic transmission system for the 1980 Olympics amongst plenty of other things; and NAB for pretty much being NAB.