BBC Broadcast to showcase the latest in VOD, navigation & content for mobile at IBC2005

BBC Broadcast will be exhibiting for the first time at IBC 2005, showing the very latest ways in which consumers will be accessing and navigating content both today and in the future.
Located in Hall 3, stand 3.330, BBC Broadcast will be demonstrating video-on-demand and over broadband as well as the latest in content to mobile and other portable devices. They will also be showing a specially designed HD channel played out from the Broadcast Centre in West London to the RAI Convention Centre in addition to highlights from the 64 channels and interactive streams which have recently migrated to the facility.
The IBC2005 conference programme will include Chris Howe, BBC Broadcast’s Chief Technology Officer, giving a masterclass on ‘The Lifecycle of a Piece of Media Content’ on Friday September 9. On Monday September 12, Adam Hume, Head of Digital Publishing and Futurology, will participate on the panel for the session ‘The PVR – Grown Up and in Business’. Both of these sessions will take place in room L of the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre.
BBC Broadcast has been busy since IBC2004 and, after announcing its video-on-demand (VOD) search tool at NAB in April this year, recently won the contract with Telewest Broadband to provide encoding and navigational services as well as ‘barker channels’ (channels that provide viewers with information and promotions about content) for its new TV-on-demand service, Teleport.
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