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Photos: Crave pays the BBC's R&D department a visit

By Ian Morris on 10 July 2007, 1:14pm

Televisions

We recently looked at a BBC R&D white paper about using MIMO to transmit high-definition TV using the space left over from the analogue switch-off. As a result, we were invited to go along to Kingswood Warren, the home of BBC R&D, to see a demonstration of the system.

Kingswood is home to BBC research into technologies that will eventually become commonplace in our living rooms. It was here that Teletext and Nicam sound were developed. It's an incredibly important place, because it informs the corporation's opinion on which new technologies to employ and enables it to put a strong case to the government and regulators about the future direction of broadcasting technology.

To demonstrate the abilities of the system, the team working on this project are transmitting three high-definition signals, encoded at 15Mbps, and one standard-def signal. All three are within one 8MHz UHF channel that would hold just one analogue TV channel. The team claimed it was "pretty simple". Click through for more pics.

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