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Hi! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Here's our #introduction. We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future. For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting. We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet...

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[โ€“] MrNesser 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the Internet..."

Ooof got some news for you there, you might be a bit late to the party.

[โ€“] NickwithaC 8 points 1 year ago

iPlayer was actually one of the first streaming TV services and it launched just as Netflix was getting into streaming some of its DVD titles.