British Association for Screen Entertainment

The British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) is a video home entertainment organisation established in 1980 as the British Video Association (BVA). Its members include the BBC and Hollywood studios.^[1] The association organises an annual awards ceremony (The BASE Awards, formerly the BVA Awards) in London.^[2] In 2003, the association reported a 61% increase of DVD sales alongside a tripling in the illegal downloading of film and television files.^[3] In 2010 the association publicised the fact that around six million people in the UK had failed to acquire a high-definition television signal for television sets that were HD ready.^[4]

In 2016 the association changed its name from the British Video Association to the British Association for Screen Entertainment.^[5]