R&D's Advisory Team publishes its first foresight report, evaluating future technologies and trends.
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How can we accurately measure graphics performance to help us get the most out of low-powered TV platforms?
Our streaming media test content now includes webcasts, live streams, low latency versions, accessible streams, all CMAF conformant.
As we round up the year, discover what we've been working on over the last 12 months...
How can the BBC successfully innovate in a competitive world when audiences are fragmented and budgets are constrained?
How can media organisations, protect ourselves, our content and help our audiences understand what they're seeing?
We’re collecting additional telemetry data in a prototype of the BBC Sounds mobile app to explore how well mobile networks deliver live streaming radio. We call it Project Timbre.
15 Mar 2024
The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA.
5 Mar 2024
Another award for our work on HDR TV.
23 Feb 2024
An update reflecting on 6 months of our trial in the federated social media space
13 Feb 2024
Creating complicated moving shots for small radio studios can be hard, so we tried using Neural Radiance Fields for some striking visual effects.
18 Jan 2024
How BBC R&D advised on the production workflow and helped configure equipment so audiences received the very best quality pictures of the biggest UHD HDR production the BBC has undertaken...
19 Dec 2023