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Quality Control for file-based delivery at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã
Hi my name's Rowan and I work in a small team who look after the technology strategy for the TV making parts of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã. That includes everything from cameras and edit platforms to programme delivery and archive.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online Briefing Winter 2014: reinventing our industry, Ö÷²¥´óÐã Research & Development
These projects included the delivery of coverage solely via an IP infrastructure; streaming live 360 degree imagery to virtual reality headsets, complete with binaural sound; and tests using 4K and 4G technology.
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Designing the Human Body Clock
How much do we really know about the human body? While part of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã News Visual Journalism team I had the opportunity to design an online feature about the fascinating and complex Body Clock.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Minute CatchUP: Global news in just 60 seconds
Ö÷²¥´óÐã Minute CatchUP is a player that sits on your web browser and provides a 60 second news bulletin every half an hour. It’s the first pilot to come out of the Connected Studio / World Service partnership programme and is available to try on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Taster.
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New Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer for Connected TVs: update
We are looking to migrate the majority of all existing devices with Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer to the new version. However, with Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer now available on over 1,200 devices, this is a major task and will take a bit of time. Today, I am happy to announce the next wave of devices is ready to go.
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Video Factory: Updating the creation and distribution systems for on demand video
One of our original goals for Video Factory was to review and refresh the transcode profiles for the video we create, as well as changing our distribution architecture to become more efficient with storage, more flexible when making changes and more resilient by using multiple distribution partners.
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Building a reactive file-based delivery workflow for Video Factory
The Platform Media Services team build and run the Video Factory system which ingests, transcodes and delivers programme content onto Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer. Video Factory is designed as a collection of microservice components.
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Shifting gear with the World Service
Robin Pemborke, Director of News Products and Systems reviews the past year's achievements with the World Service.
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Push notifications on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã News app
Today we are releasing updates to our iOS and Android apps that will allow users to opt in to receive breaking news push notifications. Push notifications allow users to be alerted to breaking news stories on their smartphone or tablet in a form similar to a text message, even when they aren’t ...
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Optimising for Touch on the Responsive Web
While positioned in the GEL [http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel] team, I was involved in producing design guidelines to inform our web-based products across the Ö÷²¥´óÐã. One such guideline gives recommendations on how to optimise our products for touch input (in simple terms, to make things ‘touch-friendly’).
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Glastonbury: The Digital Hub
During the weekend, we turned the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s R&D South Lab in Shepherds Bush into the production hub for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s Digital Glastonbury 2013, and along with the team on the ground at the festival and colleagues in MediaCity UK in Salford, gave you unprecedented coverage from the festival.
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Your new Ö÷²¥´óÐã Ö÷²¥´óÐã: Introducing the new bbc.co.uk homepage
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage exists to bring that rich variety to visitors of bbc.co.uk. But until recently, it lacked the flexibility to pull all that variety together for our audience. As of today, visitors registering with us can choose from more than 40 new collections - each tailored to their interests.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online Briefing Winter 2014: Interacting, with Ö÷²¥´óÐã Knowledge and Learning
it was great to return to the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online Briefing to talk to digital suppliers about the Our World War interactive video project.
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Me, you and the machine
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Chief Technology and Product Officer explains how the corporation can benefit from Machine Learning.
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Gaming for public good
Emma Pratt Richens reports on the highlights of a pre-lockdown Ö÷²¥´óÐã Gaming conference
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer launches on Windows Phone 8
A couple of months ago, Cyrus Saihan announced that Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer would be coming to Windows Phone [link to previous blog]. I’m now pleased to announce that that day has arrived and for the first time Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer is available on Windows Phone 8 devices.
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Introducing the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s first voice experiences for children
James Purnell introduces the new Ö÷²¥´óÐã Kids Skill for Alexa devices.