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New Delhi February 12, 2006: BES Expo 2006, the 12th International
Conference & Exhibition on Terrestrial and Satellite Broadcasting,
organized by the Broadcast Engineering Society (India) at Hotel
Taj Palace, New Delhi, concluded today. The Expo witnessed overwhelming
response from delegates, exhibitors, and visitors. This year's edition
of BES Expo registered over 6,000 visitors, which represents a 20
percent growth as compared to the last year. More than 1,000 delegates
from India and abroad participated in the exhibition and conference,
representing a growth of 25 percent as compared to the last year.
A total of 65 companies representing 300 broadcast equipment manufacturers
and solution providers from 25 countries across the globe exhibited
at BES Expo this year.
The Conference Proceedings for the concluding day were spread over
three sessions. The highlight of the first session was Future Satellite
Technologies. Mr. A Bhaskarnarayana, Director SCP, ISRO, chaired
the session. The speakers included Mr. D Venugopal of ASTS; Mr.
Sanjay Jasola of IGNOU; Dr. PC Jain of STMicroelectronics; and Mr.
ND Acharya of Infinium.
Elaborating on the techniques for overcoming blockage and multi-path
effects for satellite communications and broadcasting in mobile
environment, Mr. D Venugopal said, “Recently, there has been
a lot of interest in providing satellite broadcast services to cars
fitted with omni directional antennae.
As these services are one-way services without return acknowledgement,
special techniques need to be used to overcome multi-path fading
and short signal blockage due to foliage and buildings.’’
The focus of the second session was Digital Radio: Present &
Future. The merits of various digital radio broadcast standards
vis-à-vis their counterparts have been dwelled upon in this
session, presided over by Mr.
Philip Laven, Director (TD), EBU, Geneva. The speakers in this session
included Mr. Nick Banks of Radioscape, UK; Mr. Roger Johansson of
Factum, Sweden; Mr. Jeff Astle of World DAB, UK; and Mr. Lindsay
Cornell of BBC Research, UK. Commenting on the critical factors
for planning digital radio rollout by broadcasters, Mr. Jeff Astle
said, “The main consumer benefit of DAB is much more choice,
as also better sound quality, reception improvements, and ease of
use of digital receivers.”
The last session of Conference Proceedings for BES Expo 2006 broached
on Content Protection and Broadcast Rights. It was chaired by Mr.
KS Sarma, CEO, Prasar Bharati. The major concerns before the broadcast
industry remains maintaining integrity of the broadcast content
once it is broadcast.
The speakers including Mr. Andy Nobbs of Teletrax, UK; Mr. Philip
Laven of EBU, Geneva; Mr. Paul Cheesbrough of BBC, UK; and Mr. R
Vardarajan of Silicon Image, USA; provided an insight into the use
of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems to prevent users from
copying or redistributing protected content.
India has seen phenomenal growth of news channels and FM radio
channels, and there still remains potential for further growth.
Display of technologies encompassing news automation, satellite
broadcasting, and radio broadcasting will help the Indian broadcasters
in adopting one that suits them the most. For the first time ever
in India, BES Expo 2006 provided a platform for Live Demos on Mobile
Broadcasting and Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. The ball has been
set rolling for the next year's edition - BES Expo 2007, which will
highlight the theme “Multifaceted Broadcasting”.
Issued for favor of publications, broadcast and telecast.
DK Gupta
Hon. Secretary,
Broadcast Engineering Society
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