Meeting future digital challenges goes better with face-to-face conversation: Javad Mottaghi

Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Digital Broadcasting Symposium returned as an in-person event after a two-year pandemic induced hiatus. “Nothing can actually take the place of a good face-to-face conversation,” said ABU Secretary General Dr Javad Mottaghi, in his opening address to the 2023 Digital Broadcasting Symposium in Kuala Lumpur. Lindsay Cornell, Principal Systems Architect at BBC Digital delivered an update on DAB+, saying for broadcasters this technology offers multiple opportunities to innovate, allowing more operators to be present in the same spectrum. “By running the same content through all the outlets, revenue increased far more than operation costs.” “Opportunities aren’t all about increasing revenue; DAB is the most energy efficient of all the means of delivering digital content.”

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