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BBC Research & Development

Hi! πŸ‘‹ Here's our #introduction.

We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future.

For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting.

We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet – along with all the flexibility and creativity that brings.

5G, AI, next-gen audio, UHD, personal data… we are investigating all these – and more!
youtube.com/watch?v=rzztGFXYR1

Hi! πŸ‘‹ Here's our #introduction.

We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future.

For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting.

We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet – along with all the flexibility and creativity that brings.

BBC Research & Development

We do all of this to bring audiences new, immersive and accessible experiences.

We also look at how technology can help the production process. We prototype and test new tools, create datasets, open-source our work, work with partners in the industry and publish our research so that everyone can benefit.

Find out more about all this on our website bbc.co.uk/rd

We’re now exploring Mastodon, so please follow us - we’ll update you with what we are working on in our labs.

🎺Toot Toot!🎺

mybarkingdogs

@BBCRD Maybe you could do something about your institutional transphobia while you’re at it. Many of us have long memories.

Figaro

@BBCRD Awesome! So I recognize I'm just yelling into the abyss right now, but what the people want is a 24 hour live feed of life from the perspective of a random stray cat. Multiple stray cats. You can call it BBC-C1, C2, etc. All the political bullshit, honestly everyone is tired of it. Give us some premium cat content.

Mikko Husari

@BBCRD

Please verify your account. It is easy and costs nothing.

Epistatacadam

@BBCRD Croeso!
I hope your radio programmes will have a presence on the fediverse @social.bbc soon?

Theriac

@BBCRD@social.bbc
Cool - can I suggest trying other apps - there are a lot of quality of life improvements out there - seach, quoting, filters, friendlier UI, etc
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Apps

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@BBCRD You're pretty new here, so a bit of advice:

Post cats. A lot. This is the Internet.

And gay stuff. That also helps.

pettter

@BBCRD Are you investigating how to be less transphobic too or is that out of scope?

Emelia πŸ‘ΈπŸ»

@BBCRD oh hi! Looks like our paths overlap a fair bit! (I interacted with members of your team when I worked at Inrupt)

Tim Cowlishaw

@BBCRD oh wow, this an exciting development! 🀩

Rachel Lawson

@BBCRD awesome to see the BBC embracing open systems like Mastodon. Maybe you could also look to embrace open systems for internet radio again? #hint #hint

m4iler :debian: :verified_paw:

@BBCRD Welcome! I hope social.bbc uses sakon as part of its fedi setup :-)

ExperiencersInternational

@BBCRD@social.bbc tbh I will not be following any BBC account apart from potential local news ones

I do not trust the BBC as it is with their close ties to the government, even going as far as articles from The Guardian about purposely rewording stuff relating to the start of COVID restrictions in 2020

I didn't really save the article, but I can at least point out this article that The Guardian also made about BBC censorship during the coronation:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/05/revealed-royal-family-has-power-to-censor-bbc-coronation-coverage

@BBCRD@social.bbc tbh I will not be following any BBC account apart from potential local news ones

I do not trust the BBC as it is with their close ties to the government, even going as far as articles from The Guardian about purposely rewording stuff relating to the start of COVID restrictions in 2020

I didn't really save the article, but I can at least point out this article that The Guardian also made about BBC censorship during the coronation:
...

David Bailey :verified:

@BBCRD Welcome to the Fediverse Aunty Beeb. I hope to see a lot more of you around here. πŸ‘‹

Ruth Mottram

@BBCRD πŸ‘‹ Welcome.

I've already found something cool that I'd like to use from your colleagues @Connected_Studio - thanks for joining us!

Dio9sys

@BBCRD I hope you understand the sheer positive social impact you had with the stoner population when you released Planet Earth 2 in 4K

joyandsadness

@BBCRD hi watching tv via internet is a no brainer *but i'm still very happy with my plain tv and no streaming services*. What i'm really looking forward too is getting all of the bbc news departments here so that news organisation in other countries *like my own* can see that this is alo a good place to be. But welcome, hope you will stick around. Have fun.

Duncan Evans πŸ’™βœŒοΈ

@BBCRD, welcome to the fediverse. It's about time. I have this vision of wonderful folk who believe in the BBC doing good for the people of the UK and beyond.

Makasu

@BBCRD welcome! Will more BBC affiliates be using the social.bbc domain soon? Think it’s a good move, cheers

Twitter_expat βœ…(Fedi Resident)

@BBCRD

With your own server? Very nice. Im following. I'm a big fan of the BBC.

the roamer

@BBCRD

Welcome to Mastodon, BBCRD. Great to see you here, and thank you for your informative intro thread. Looking forward to reading your posts!

#BBC #BroadcastMedia

LonM

@BBCRD Glad to see the tone has changed from a few months ago where you didn't have much interest in this. (re bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-02-meta )

You are probably one of the best positioned organisations ("large player with plenty of clout" as you put it) to figure out how to make the fediverse work and be more accessible.

Looking forward to seeing what you build

So Julia

@BBCRD Welcome! I’m very excited that you’re here!!

Marcel Geveler

@BBCRD your program works, which programming language??😜

Roth Child

@BBCRD Hello, are you the advanced guard for all getting the fash and Tufty dark money grifters, from #bbcqt, on here too?

Leo Ringqvist

@BBCRD Hello and welcome! Nice to see that you wanna check this place out!

PurpleCat
@BBCRD which pokemon do you think has the cutest paws and which ones would you lick ><
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