Media Delivery
BBC R&D partners with Tim Berners Lee’s company to look at social TV
The project includes a Watch Party experience, called BBC Together + Data Pod, where viewers can log in and watch some of the BBC's...
BBC Research and Development
Media Delivery
How the BBC used a private 5G network for its Commonwealth Games coverage
Ian Wagdin, senior technology transfer manager at BBC R&D, talks to TVBEurope about the broadcaster's recent deployment of a private 5G network, and the...
Audio
A new generation of audio delivery
BBC R&D's Jon Francombe takes a look at the latest trends in audio delivery
Production & Post
BBC R&D develops single-camera light field backgrounds for virtual production
The light field solution is currently at the prototype stage, running on standard gaming PC hardware
Business
TVBEurope August 2021 issue released
This month we take a look at streaming, advertising technology, and discover the Secrets of the London Underground
Media Management
BBC R&D, iSIZE partner on video streaming innovation project
Project will look at perceptual optimisation of video streams as a way of making significant reductions in bandwidth as well as innovations in encoding...
Production & Post
BBC R&D investigates how machine learning can colourise video
New project looks at how black and white archive video can be colourised
Production & Post
BBC to trial creating and delivering object-based media at scale
Project will include developing AI-powered techniques to allow audio and video to be separated into objects and create metadata describing a scene
Audio
BBC R&D trials immersive Six Nations audio
Trial enables viewers to turn phones, tablets and laptops into extra speakers in order to surround themselves in the sounds of the game
Business
Harmonic, MediaKind, BBC R&D, Dolby among Tech and Engineering Emmy winners
Annual awards will be presented during the 2021 NAB Show on 10th October
Audio
EBU, IRT, BBC R&D release open-source, next-gen audio tools
Enables sound engineers to produce immersive and personalisable content using the Audio Definition Model (ADM) format.
Media Delivery
BBC R&D studies environmental impact of delivering and watching TV
Research found that the devices in viewers' homes used more energy in total than in the BBC's distribution chain
Technology
BBC testing Object-Based iPlayer
Computationally intensive tasks have been "offloaded" to a powerful graphics card on a Cloud server
TVBEverywhere
BBC R&D and EE trial 4G Broadcast at 2015 FA Cup Final
BBC Research & Development worked with EE and other partners to stage a trial of 4G Broadcast at the FA Cup Final at Wembley...
News
TVBEverywhere
BBC, SES and Samsung demo first DVB broadcast of HDR UHD TV
SES and Samsung Electronics demonstrated the first DVB transmission of High Dynamic Range UHD TV at the annual SES Industry Days in Luxembourg on...
News
Business
BBC R&D to broadcast 4K Commonwealth Games
BBC Research and Development has announced its second Ultra HD trial this summer.
TVBEverywhere
BBC 4K test is first of many
The BBC has given the strongest indication yet of plans to launch an Ultra HD service by performing a test broadcast of three matches...
Business
BBC R&D and Arqiva to trial UHD for World Cup
BBC Research and Development will trial Ultra High Definition (UHD) broadcasts this summer.