Brompton Technology Wins Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science & Technology

Brompton Technology has been recognized by the Television Academy with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering, Science & Technology. The Emmy was awarded for its Tessera SX40 LED video processor, which has played a crucial role in the widespread adoption of LED screens for virtual production and elevated the storytelling process through its impact on how television programs are created.

The Television Academy named Brompton Technology’s founders Richard Mead (CEO) and Chris Deighton (CTO), alongside Director of Engineering Adrian Jeakins and Engineering Manager Evangelos Apostolopoulos, as the core team responsible for the Tessera SX40. Since its debut in 2018, the SX40 has played a crucial role in the widespread adoption of LED for virtual production in the television industry, and has been used across many of the most popular and technologically advanced television series in recent years, including: The Mandalorian, House of the Dragon, The Book of Boba Fett, Westworld, Foundation, Our Flag Means Death, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, among others.

“The entire Brompton team is incredibly thrilled and humbled to receive such a prestigious award from our industry peers, and for the recognition of the vital role that LED processing plays for in-camera visual effects,” commented Mead. “It is a demanding medium that aims to recreate reality within a studio, and that is exactly the kind of challenge that Brompton Technology has always sought to meet. Our mission is to deliver the best possible image quality, breadth of functionality, usability, and reliability in every product we build.”

With a long legacy and stellar reputation in LED processing for live events and concert touring, Brompton brought its extensive experience to support the pioneers of in-camera visual effects. The LED processor’s role is to faithfully reproduce the creative team’s intended visual content on the LED panels, to be captured in-camera, without any visual artifacts that would destroy the illusion of realism. Brompton’s color accuracy and deep understanding of how LED panels and cameras interact, were the foundation for an ever-expanding toolset that has helped establish in-camera visual effects as a mainstream filmmaking technique.

Emmy Award-winning lighting designer and virtual production specialist Peter Canning noted that in television and film, “it is all about getting the LED screen as close to reality as possible, which is where the Tessera SX40 is perfect. It is the one part of our pipeline which has never let us down.”

Since the Tessera SX40’s launch, the Brompton team has continued to develop a variety of improvements, available via free software upgrades, keeping ahead of the curve as the industry’s gold standard for color accuracy and on-camera visual performance. As virtual production has become more widely adopted, specific features were also designed to address common challenges facing directors and cinematographers. Some of the company’s key Tessera software features include ShutterSync®, which allows the refresh of the LED screen to be tuned to the preferred camera settings; Extended Bit Depth, which improves the dynamic range and low brightness performance of LED panels; and 3D LUT import, for advanced color control and grading. Together these continued advancements ensure the greatest possible flexibility and collaboration for the creative team, enabling them to focus on the storytelling rather than the technology.

The 75th annual Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards will be presented on October 18, 2023. For additional information and the full list of winners, please visit the Television Academy’s website at: https://www.emmys.com/awards/emmys/engineering-emmys.

About Brompton Technology

Brompton Technology is the market leader in LED video processing for the most demanding applications, used on the world’s biggest live events and for virtual production used on films and television.

Established in 2011, Brompton Technology is an award-winning manufacturer based in West London and is at the forefront of technology within its sector. The company launched the revolutionary Dynamic Calibration approach to LED panel calibration and the award-winning G1, the most powerful receiver card ever to go into an LED panel. Product and feature designs come from years of industry and engineering experience, coupled with a dedicated focus on image quality, breadth of functionality, ease of use and reliability.

Brompton Technology is a globally known and respected brand, winning a Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2020, a Lumiere Entertainment Technology Award in 2022 for the Tessera SX40 LED processor, and multiple awards for the G1 in 2023. Last year the company received a £5.1m growth capital investment from Connection Capital, a specialist private client alternative investment business.

More information can be found at www.bromptontech.com.

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