Featured Service: Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
What is BoB?
BoB is an off-air recording service with a massive archive of over 1 million television programmes, radio programmes, and films that have been aired on 60+ UK terrestrial channels since 2007.
You can schedule future recordings, or identify programmes that have been aired in the last 30 days that they would like to record. Essentially, BoB is a very big recorder that allows you to have a recording of something - even if you missed it...... You have 30 days to catch it before it will not be available.
Unlike some individual TV streaming services, BoB will keep these recording indefinitely and you can search across all channels at once. You can also fast-forward past adverts and many programmes have subtitles and searchable transcripts. The material will be available for you for as long as you're at the University.
The user-friendly system allows you to record and catch-up on missed programmes on and off-campus, schedule recordings in advance, edit programmes into clips, create playlists, embed clips into Moodle, share what you are watching with others, search a growing archive of material, plus more..... Plus you can even link it to social media....
Key features and functions:
Watch programmes from the archive
Record programmes
Create clips to use in lectures and assignments
Create & share playlists
One-click citations
Embed videos into presentations
Over 10 foreign language channels, including French, German and Italian
30 day recording buffer to record missed programmes
Apple iOS compatibility – watch BoB on handheld devices
Searchable programme transcripts
Links to social media to share what you’re watching online
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