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

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and

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. The association organises an annual awards ceremony (The ''BASE Awards'', formerly the ''BVA Awards'') in London. In 2003, the association reported a 61% increase of

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sales alongside a tripling in the illegal downloading of

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and

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

files. In 2010 the association publicised the fact that around six million people in the UK had failed to acquire a

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signal for

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s that were

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

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