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    The R&D Prototyping team explores new ways of presenting BBC content on all digital platforms.

  • 2011 Queen's Award

    Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the ‘Innovation’ category, for BBC R&D's contribution to the Piero sports graphics system.

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    The next generation of video compression technologies.

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    • Private Peaceful

        Private Peaceful   Following our binaural experiment using "Nine Lessons and Carols" at Christmas we are now inviting you to participate in a second experiment, this time using the radio drama "Private Peaceful". To find out more and to take part...

    • Prototyping Weeknotes #94 (30 Jan ~ 3 Feb 2012)

      Welcome to issue 94 of our team's weeknotes. 94, of course, is the atomic number of Plutonium, but also the identifier of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's form for which first question has had me pondering the meaning of “moral...

    • What does currentTime mean in HTML5?

      In our previous post on implementing startOffsetTime in HTML5, we mentioned that Firefox and Chrome do not agree on a common interpretation of the currentTime attribute. This post expands on that point to explain in detail what the differences...

    • Implementing startOffsetTime for HTML5

      In this first of two technical blog posts on our recent work on P2P Next, we explain why and how we implemented the HTML5 media element attribute startOffsetTime in Firefox to enable accurate synchronisation of out-of-band timestamped metadata with...

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