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ABU Webinar Festival 2016
he Webinar festival received 244 registrations from participants within the region and outside. More than 800 participant-sessions from more than 100
organisations covering nearly 40 countries attended the online event organised by the ABU Technology Department.
This year, the webinar series “ABU Festival of Technology Webinars” was held from 17 August to 09 September 2016. Participation was free of cost to all ABU members and others in the industry interested in broadcast technologies and its application.
The webinar sessions were run twice each day, one session in the morning and then the same repeated in the afternoon. This was to facilitate the participation of attendees from different time zones. Each webinar session was around 60
ABU and Whiteways Systems Conduct OTT/ IBB Workshop in Mauritius
television ruled the roost. Viewers want to watch content when they like it, where they like and on any device of their choice”, the Director General of the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), Mr Amoordalingum Pather said at the opening of the 4-day workshop on the paradise island of the Indian Ocean.
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The workshop focusing on Over the Top (OTT) and Integrated Broadcast- Broadband (IBB) technologies was conducted from 31 October to 3 November 2016 by Raza Aale, Managing Director of Whiteways Systems-Singapore on behalf of the ABU. He was supported by his colleague, Mr Vijay Singh Basera, Senior Manager-Projects. The participants who were mainly engineers were updated on the new codecs, video formats and
he Broadcast industry worldwide is undergoing a disruption. “Gone are the days when linear
SD to HD transition. They felt that it is imperative for the MBC to modernise its technology and provide more and better quality content to its viewers. The challenges of the Mauritian public television are the same as those being faced by the entire Broadcast industry: 1) Digital advertising is eating into the television advertising revenue. This resulted in TV advertising revenue being dwarfed by digital advertising giants like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon.
2) Viewers are slowly going away from Linear TV and moving towards OTT and VOD.
3) The quality of the programmes need to be upgraded as viewers are exposed to lots of international content.
To overcome all these threats, participants felt that MBC has to keep its loyal base of linear TV viewers,
upgrade its systems, train the personnel and improve its technology. Most importantly, they believe that MBC should launch an OTT and VOD service in order to catch the viewers who are in Mauritius, but prefer to watch on their own time and on a connected device. Lastly, MBC needs to change its programming mix in order to cater to the new generation – who do not tune into the current programming mix.
After discussions and sharing of views, MBC staff wanted to understand all the new technology that they can use to make their productions better and more appealing. Training was provided on the on graphics, virtual sets, new cameras, formats (HD vs 4K) and compression formats.
Mr Pather said that MBC is moving forward and new technologies like OTT and IBB need to be implemented.
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minutes, starting with presentation(s) by experts on the subject matter followed by a Question and Answer session.
The webinar sessions were grouped under the following six main themes, with a total of 19 days (37 webinar sessions) presented throughout the month long festival. • Digital Radio • Archiving, Media Management and Workflow Enhancements
• Digital Television • Immersive Media Technologies • Beyond HD and Alternate Delivery Platforms in Broadcast • OTT and IBB Technologies
The next ABU Webinar Festival will be organised in August 2017.
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