Distribution

The distribution of media, both audio and video, from the 'broadcaster' to the audience has evolved dramatically over the last two decades. BBC R&D has pioneered the research into many of the platforms that have emerged in the last decades, and today our research and development teams are still leading the way in the invention and implementation of the latest ways to get content to our audiences.

With the hugely complex systems now in place to get picutres and sound over the air, and down the wires to the televisions, computers, radios and mobile phones of the audience, our distribution work is, of neccesity, organised into sub groups.

Click Core Technologies work focuses on the basic physical science and engineering research that allows us to get the very best performance out of the radio frequencies available for broadcast, and pushes the advance of the digital signals processing techniques needed to carry our content, and others, over the internet, and across digital television and radio services.

Click Application Layer efforts are concentrated on the devices, systems, services and platforms that our audiences actually use day to day to access their media. We undertake development of metadata standards to allow the exploration of huge collections of material, through the development of platforms to integrate multiple services in the home, to the emergence of mobile as a key media technology and the need to limit the environmental impact of all these elements.

Click Digital Service Development handles the technical design authority management of the deployment of the latest elements of the UK public service digital media network. Over recent years this team has been at the forefront of the rool out of Freesat, and instrumental in the Digital Switch Over and Freeview HD service. By maintaining a world class expertise in all elements of the respective technologies we are able to guide these vast collaborate efforts and ensure the best posible service to our audiences.