BBC Research & Development
How people want public service media to help build a better future
The Responsible Innovation Centre’s public deliberation on the impact of technology on public service media offers key insights into how people want PSM to contribute to a better future for everyone.
SIGNALS: a new way to experience Wimbledon
Revealing the moments that shape Wimbledon - a new interactive layer showing serve speeds, winners, dominance graphs, match quizzes and more.
BBC R&D at IBC:
A focus on our work featuring at this year's IBC show.
Introducing the Time-Addressable Data Store
Open, interoperable, and cloud-native - TADS creates new opportunities for collaboration, automation and data-driven production workflows.
Protecting identities without losing the humanity - anonymising interviewees with AI
New AI techniques make it possible to protect identities of vulnerable interviewees while preserving their facial expressions and human emotion.
The future of TAMS - our research project's next chapter with the Linux Foundation
Our exploration into cloud-fit production has grown into an industry-wide initiative. The TAMS specification now becomes a community project.
Smarter transmitters, lower energy: dynamic FM radio networks
Weather forecasting and real-time network monitoring makes smarter and more energy efficient control of our FM radio network possible.
The latest articles on our research into the infrastructure that will power production in the future.
A simple tool for advanced workflows
A video intro to time addressable media.
Towards the second wave of live media production
Moving live production from rigid, hardware-dependent workflows to flexible, software-first environments - with an emphasis on interoperability, so broadcasters can share sharing of video, audio and data easily.
Transforming how media is handled throughout the workflow
The ten most important aspects of time-addressable media that align with Hollywood's MovieLabs 2030 Vision for the future of filmmaking.
Podcast: TAMS - from concept to industry standard
A discussion on fast turnaround, cloud native working, the role of open standards, industry collaboration, and evolving media production without losing sight of editorial values.
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