For example, this is the URL for Platoon: Ī more mainstream feature that’s also gone live today are schedule pages for some radio networks. You can get it by adding …/qrcode to the end of the URL for any programme page. People can then decode them by taking a picture, using specific software installed on their mobile phone, to read and convert the code back to the URL – so they can easily visit the web site.Īnyway – every BBC programme now has a QR code. You can then print QR-Codes on posters, t-shirts, scarfs, whatever. But unlike bar codes you can encode any string you fancy (up to 4,296 alphanumeric characters) into an image and this means you can convert a URL into a QR-Code. QR-Codes, if you’ve not come across them before, are a bit like two-dimensional bar codes created by the Japanese company Denso-Wave. We’re on a bit of a roll at the moment with our work on /programmes, so quick on the heals of the work to integrate iPlayer and programme credits onto our episode pages I’m chuffed to announce another batch of new features: QR-Codes, schedules and um calls to inaction.

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