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Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2016

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  1. BBC Blue Room visits Photokina 2016

    BBC Blue Room visits Photokina 2016

    Highlights from a visit to the annual photography expo, Photokina.

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  2. BBC experiments with ‘Holographic’ TV

    BBC experiments with ‘Holographic’ TV

    Although the famous Princess Leia hologram from Star Wars was set a “long, long time ago”, this type of audience experience might not be that far away. Holographic experiences offer audiences a level of detail and realism that a short while ago seemed impossible but that are now becoming a reality.

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  3. BIDI: The BBC Internet Distribution Infrastructure explained

    BIDI: The BBC Internet Distribution Infrastructure explained

    BIDI is the BBC’s own content distribution platform and is responsible for delivering media directly to the BBC end users in the UK. The clients are always presented with a ‘CDN mix’ from which they can fetch the media they are interested in. BIDI is part of this mix, alongside the commercial CDNs.

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  4. Announcing the new BBC Design Research roster

    Announcing the new BBC Design Research roster

    Today, I am really pleased to be announcing the new UX&D Digital Design Research roster and their first assignments with us. After a rigorous and creative selection process, we have selected eight agencies that we are committed to working with for at least the next 2 years.

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  5. BBC Blue Room reports on the latest tech trends

    BBC Blue Room reports on the latest tech trends

    The BBC Blue Room returned to the IFA (Europe’s largest Consumer Electronics & White Goods Trade Show) at the start of September, tasked with investigating the latest technology trends, and deducing what the potential impact the latest innovations will have on both broadcasters and audiences.

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  6. Casualty team tell Robyn’s Story in BBC Taster pilot

    Casualty team tell Robyn’s Story in BBC Taster pilot

    The theme for this Connected Studio brief was 'Smartphone Storytelling’, based on giving audiences a starring role in the form of internet-first ideas that look specifically at participation - the successful concept we developed was for The Casualty Storybook project.

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  7. BBC Homepage announces new Beta site

    BBC Homepage announces new Beta site

    Using the regular Homepage as a control, we would like to use the beta as an area where we can try those ideas and see what impact those changes may have by comparing against the regular Homepage.

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  8. Challenges of HTML5 media playback

    Challenges of HTML5 media playback

    It’s been almost a year since the BBC first made its HTML5 player available on the desktop via bbc.co.uk/html5. However, there are challenges faced in HTML5 media playback that are either presented in a different way than they are in a Flash space, or don’t exist at all in Flash.

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  9. Introducing ADA: Automated Data Architecture. A new way of navigating the BBC’s programme archive

    Introducing ADA: Automated Data Architecture. A new way of navigating the BBC’s programme archive

    The BBC has a wealth of permanently available programmes across a wide range of subjects, but they can sometimes prove hard to find unless you already know the programme title. ADA is a new project designed to find a way of pointing people to similar programmes.

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  10. Latest BBC iPlayer enhancements: Live Restart on mobile, live events, HD by default and visual seeking

    Latest BBC iPlayer enhancements: Live Restart on mobile, live events, HD by default and visual seeking

    Almost 10 years on from its original launch, BBC iPlayer is the most popular online TV service in the UK, not just in terms of usage but also in terms of positive word of mouth. It’s available on over 10,000 different devices and has been downloaded 40 million times from mobile app stores.

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