Regional Seminar on Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting

AIBD, MDA, ITU & CFI are jointly organising a regional seminar on Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting on 16-18 June 2008 at Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore in association with 6th ASEAN Digital Broadcasting Meeting and BroadcastAsia-2008. Digital Terrestrial Television Services have already been rolled out in many parts of the world including the AsiaPacific region. However, the progress is slow in some developing countries of the region. Failure to adopt digital broadcasting may deprive the broadcasters the opportunity to remain integrated with the worldwide broadcasting fraternity in terms of technological compatibility and advancement. This is in fact widening the digital divide. Therefore, to bridge the gap between digital developments and existing analogue technology, it is very essential to plan for seamless migration to digital broadcasting. The South-East Asian countries belonging to ASEAN have already agreed unanimously to adopt DVB-T standard. Many of the countries in the SAARC region are also adopting the same standard. The large population that will be served with the standard has the potential to reduce the costs of the set top box and hence the easier acceptance by consumers. It is to be noted that the least developed countries in the region have also started showing interest in adopting digital terrestrial broadcasting. Aims This workshop intends to provide information on existing technologies and standards on digital television broadcasting. It will discuss possible problems that countries might face in the deployment of DTTB. The seminar intends to groom the participants and prepare them to be technically sound in their understanding of Digital Television Broadcasting technology and to enable them to plan for effective implementation of the technology in conformity with their broadcasting environment and requirements. Objectives The seminar will enable the broadcasting engineers: to know the advantages and potential of digital Television broadcasting to understand the planning parameters and planning methods used for implementation of digital television broadcasting to know the advantage of SFN and spectrum planning approach for DTTB to understand issues related to Set Top Box/ Digital Receivers to learn about interactive middleware to know various data broadcasting services through DTTB to understand the content production technologies to know various issues related to Digital content copy right management to draft a set of recommendations (roadmap).

Participants Broadcasting engineers, planners, decision makers and regulators associated with Planning & Implementation of Digital Television broadcasting, should take part in this seminar. Digital set top manufacturers, digital terrestrial equipment manufacturers and providers of interactivity software will also benefit from participation. Deadline for receipt of registration form : 12th May 2008. For further details, please contact Das, Prgramme Manager, email:das@aibd.org.my Down load the Programme schedule and Application Form - please click the links below: DTTB Application Form & Draft Programme Schedule