[This post is re-produced from my post on the all new BBC R&D Blog] I'm Rowan de Pomerai, a technologist at BBC Research & Development. I've recently returned to London having spent around 7 months in our northern lab in Manchester. As Anthony mentioned in his post...
One of the challenges I work on in developing BBC R&D North's new premesis (both the interim solution and our long term base at MediaCity:UK) is figuring out just what we as a department need to do our work. I've talked a little about the technology, but the physical...
It's been quite a while now since I started working on BBC R&D's North Lab. I've thoroughly failed to provide any updates, for which I apologise, but I think it falls under the category of "the more is happening, the less time you have to blog about it"! We've been ploughing...
Manchester greeted me yesterday with howling winds and a few brief showers. Not the best of starts weather-wise after the glorious sunshine that bathed London last week. However I'm now sitting in the Research & Development office of the BBC's New Broadcasting House in...
Well, today is my last official day working on BBC HD audio. Somehow I don't think this project will leave me alone just yet, but after a week's leave, my main focus will be elsewhere. So I thought I'd take the opportunity to talk about something which has consumed a...
It's been a long time since I've updated you, for which I apologise. However the good news is this will hopefully be my last post about lipsync issues on BBC HD. That's in part because I'm really running out of bad puns based on the word 'sync', but mostly because - and...
Last time I told you about the efforts we've been making at BBC HD to get an A/V sync test to your TV in order that you can measure the synchronisation between audio and video in your home TV setup. You'll be very pleased to know that we're done and the test has made...
A couple of weeks ago I told you about the work we’ve been doing on the synchronisation of audio and video (lipsync) in our surround sound signal chain. However, no matter how much work we do, there’s one thing we can’t control, and that’s the equipment in your front...
Last week was a bit of a busy one for me, dashing around between Kingswood Warren (the home of BBC R&I), Sky and a trip to the BBC's facility in Glasgow (as well as having just returned from a long weekend in Devon) but I just wanted to share with you some of what I got...
