• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SEENIT

TV, Film, Broadband, Pay-TV, Games, Computing and Tech | News, Comment & Reviews

  • NEWS
  • UPCOMING BLU-RAYS
  • ADVERTISE
  • Twitter

BBC Research & Development invite you to try out the future of content discovery with four new experiments

March 7, 2019 - Staff@seenituk

The BBC’s Research and Development team have published four experiments from a wider project exploring how Video on Demand services could improve content discovery and recommendations.

A full description of the initiative, dubbed ‘Tellybox’, can be found here, but in short the team is “exploring alternative futures for television, ones that both address the underlying user needs that people have for watching TV – which may include spending time with others, learning something new, or relaxing, for example – but that also take into account how people experience new technologies.

“The ultimate goal is to be able to describe the high-level characteristics of a really good experience of television in the home, and so provide direction for future technology and interface development.”

As part of the project, four research examples have been published on BBC Taster, including our favourite – a feature which lets you say how long you have spare to watch TV and then just sit back while the perfect amount of BBC Three content is served up.

The R&D team stress that none of the ideas being demoed here are planned to be implemented into BBC iPlayer and that they’re “very much a research project,” but each provides an interesting insight into what the future of telly might look like:

Tellybox: BBC Three Clock – Set how long you’ve got and the TellyBox clock will give you the perfect amount of BBC Three content to fill that hole in your life.

Tellybox: Something Something – This gives you three new, easy ways to discover wonderful BBC programmes in a way that suits you. Fancy watching something on the BBC that matches your mood? Find “something beautiful” or “something funny” on BBC iPlayer using your voice.

TellyBox: 5-2-1 – This gives you three new, easy ways to discover wonderful BBC programmes in a way that suits you. Spending more time arguing with your sofa buddy about what to watch than enjoying the show? Then we’ve got a solution for you – take it in turns to filter the list from 5 to 2 to 1.

Tellybox: Random BBC Three TV – Get random BBC Three content on your phone. Whether you’re up for something new or at a loss for what to watch – TellyBox Random BBC Three TV might land you a winner with a simple flick of your finger.

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

RECENT ARTICLES

Only Murders In The Building: Disney+ releases season 2 trailer

Showcase reveals Top Gun is UK’s top Tom Cruise movie

Mitchell & Brown announces new 32in Android Smart TV for smaller rooms

Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray

UPCOMING BLU-RAY RELEASES

Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray

Downton Abbey: A New Era now available to pre-order on Blu-ray and DVD

The Shaolin Plot to be released as part of the Eureka Classics range

Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile gets Blu-ray and 4K UHD Blu-ray release date

POPULAR

Paramount+ gets confirmed UK launch date and pricing

Streaming sticks and Smart TVs will be forced to prominently display UK catch-up apps under new rules

Virgin Media unveils its new streaming TV service

Sky to offer its streaming puck as a standalone device

ADVERTISE ON SEENIT

We’re pleased to offer a number of advertising opportunities to high quality brands including sponsored content, competitions and advertising placements.

Please contact us for details.

 

TOPICS

Audio Blu-rays and DVD Cinema Gaming Guides Streaming Telecoms Telecoms Television

Copyright © 2022 · All Rights Reserved · Contact Us · Copyright · Terms of Use · Privacy Policy · StreamedTV.uk