BBC Research and Development

TVBEurope August 2021 issue released

This month we take a look at streaming, advertising technology, and discover the Secrets of the London Underground

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...

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