BBC announces new broadcasting trials for Commonwealth Games

BBC research and development has announced a range of new trials and public demonstrations as part of its Commonwealth Games Showcase.

In a bid to help shape the Corporation’s vision for the future of TV, the experiments bring together a wide range of industry collaborators and include a number of broadcasting milestones:

– The first ever ultra-HD broadcast of a Commonwealth Games
– The first major live event to be produced and delivered entirely over the internet
– The first UK trial broadcasting live coverage over 4G mobile networks
– The first live virtual reality broadcast combining 360-degree video with 3D audio
– The first public outing for several “cutting-edge” BBC R&D projects demonstrating the “editorial and creative potential” of a new internet-based broadcasting system

All trials and demonstrations will be open to the public in the Glasgow Science Centre’s Clyde Suite from 10am – 5pm throughout the Games and will form part of the wider BBC at the Quay festivities.

“The Showcase centres on BBC R&D’s recently announced plans to broadcast certain elements of the Commonwealth Games in Ultra-HD and an initial version of a new internet-based broadcasting system – two broadcasting firsts,” said the BBC.

“These experiments are to be the first public demonstrations of projects taking advantage of this new system – demonstrating its potential for richer, more interactive and more personal ways of telling stories to audiences.”