Findings from a public low-latency streaming trial, conducted by BBC R&D, are hot off the press—successfully achieving end-to-end latency of 9 seconds, which slots into the typical terrestrial broadcast delay range of 6 to 10 seconds. The paper is groundbreaking in the way it shifts the blame from network delivery to consumer hardware limitations, which we have not seen at this scale before. Broadly, the paper offers a sobering look at the reality of replacing broadcast with IP, from a latency lens, and the results are highly encouraging. Under moderate conditions, 85% of sessions during the BBC’s UK-only low-latency streaming trial successfully achieved QoE comparable to a stream with a 30-second delay. The trial proved that CMAF chunked (1.92-second segments…