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Technical Review | January-March 2012
Symposium Workshops Focused on Key Areas of Technology Implementation
ABU Management Workshop: 21St Century Management
This workshop provided a different perspective of 21st century broadcast management. Ajith Rohana Colonne, an international consultant, shared his informative presentations with the participants. The workshop addressed areas such as decision and information sciences, ideology, managing perilous situations, decision making process and constraints, and decision making under conditions of uncertainty.
Ajith Rohana Colonne Sony XDCAM Workflow Solutions
In reference to the management system of an army, he explained how military intelligence and equilibrium could be utilised in broadcasting management. Also he highlighted managing in perilous situations, with death management and decision making under uncertain conditions.
Broadcast managers both from the engineering and programme departments should conceptually understand the environment pertaining to modern management, namely Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Paradox and Chaos. These parameters may prevail over the core classical management parameters such as Planning, Organising, Leading and Controlling.
Mr Colonne’s book “DNA of Roulette” on new ideas for decision making can be downloaded free from his website
www.neworiginalthinking.com
DVB-T2 and its implementation
Janne Morstøl and Espen Myhre of T-VIPS presented case studies on the implementation of DVB-T2 in the UK, Sweden, Finland, France and others. SFN can enhance terrestrial efficiency and is more flexible to operate with DVB-T2. For regional content, a key differentiator, DVB-T2 has efficient methods for insertion. With the experience of DVB-T2 rollouts, it was suggested that countries considering implementing DVB-T should leapfrog to DVB-T2 considering the efficiency and advantages it offers.
Video over IP Infrastructure in Emerging, Developed Markets
Dr Chin Chye Koh of Nevion USA laid out the steps in implementing an IP infrastructure to transport media in uncompressed or compressed video, audio and data services.
Mitsuo Kano and Jacky Chung of Sony presented XMPilot, designed to operate with their camcorder and post production desks, helping to cope with increasing demand for efficient workflows. XDCAM uses hybrid disc and memory media, making it more flexible, together with the more efficient MPEG2 Long GOP codec. It provides time saving techniques for naming, logging and managing of clips for field production by interactivity with mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.
Chin Chye Koh
The IP network allows more flexibility and easy real-time management, diverse path routing/switching, and robust protection mechanisms. It provides a seamless transport experience together with protection capability customised to a variety of applications, though quality requirements. Bandwidth availability and latency need careful consideration.
Mitsuo Kano
Harris Advantage for DVB-T/DVB-T2 integration
DVB-T2 has a wide range of capabilities which should be utilised to their full extent by broadcasters who intend to offer more programmes, improve operational efficiency and deliver content to multiple devices. In particular, Multiple PLP provides additional flexibility and more control over the number of services. Harris provides an integrated system of transmitters, gap fillers, MPEG4 SD and HD encoders and multiplexers that can be used for deployment in both SFN and MFN networks for a complete and cost effective solution.
Green Technologies for Broadcasting
Broadcast Australia emphasises that ‘Green Technology’ is a good investment. A holistic approach for reducing power consumption by using renewable energy and examining
Jacky Chung
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