Loh Siu Yin

Loh Siu Yin

Broadcast Technology Consultant

Beyond Broadcast LLP

Beyond Broadcast LLP

Think Beyond

We are a broadcast technology consulting firm based in Singapore.

My partner Kit Siew, and I founded Beyond Broadcast in 2003 to help broadcast organisations with broadcast engineering training, upgrading their facilities and streamlining their operations with custom software.

Capabilities

Broadcast Engineering Training

Broadcast Engineering Fundamentals, Digital Video Broadcasting, Media Asset Management, Video Encoding. Courses tailored to your requirements.

Consulting and Design

Playout and Origination Systems, Asset Management Systems, Broadcast Operations and Workflows

Custom Software Development

Traffic Bridges/Translators, Media Gateways, File Movers, Library Systems, Schedulers

Recent Posts

RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation

Retrieval Augmented Generation is a technique to enhance the relevance of the generated output of Large Language Models.
Wed, 2024 Mar 27 : Last updated on Wed, 2024 Mar 27 1 min read Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence

How to nurture kindness

How to Nurture Kindness: A lesson from Confucius What is kindness? Can kindness be nurtured? How to be a kind person and nurture kindness? Is being kind naive? In this article I will try to attempt to answer these questions.
Thu, 2023 Jun 8 : Last updated on Thu, 2023 Jun 8 4 min read

Safely Bicycling Lornie Highway

Connecting Bukit Timah and Bishan/Marymount. Use Kheam Hock road to access Lornie Highway. Cycle on the sidewalk adjacent to Lornie Highway towards (with traffic) / from (against traffic) Thomson or Braddell Roads.
Wed, 2022 Nov 23 : Last updated on Wed, 2022 Nov 23 2 min read

Morals from Chinese Stories: The importance of keeping our word to others

Like Aesop’s fables, many Chinese stories teach morals. Being trustworthy is one of the most important morals to many Chinese. They disdain people who cannot be trusted. From a young age, children are taught that their word is their bond.
Sat, 2022 Mar 26 : Last updated on Sat, 2022 Mar 26 4 min read Life Lessons

Life lessons from Aesop’s Fable ‘The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse’

What is the moral behind this fable? This is one version of the story. Could Aesop have made a mistake? What if the story had a different version, a different ending?
Tue, 2021 Dec 28 : Last updated on Tue, 2021 Dec 28 5 min read
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Talks

Beyond One

What if you could have request/reply, event processing and persistence delivered as one executable binary? And that executable can be built for all Go targets!
Mon, 2022 May 2 5:27 PM — 5:27 PM Online
Code Video

Hakka Roundhouse Go Jarkarta Talk

Hakka Roundhouse: A microservices ready monolith ( with implementation experience discussion ).
Fri, 2020 Nov 13 11:28 AM — 11:28 AM Online
Code Video

Consolidating Policy Decisions With OPA and Go

Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) with Go.
Wed, 2020 Aug 26 5:00 PM — 9:00 PM online
Code Video

Rules Based Systems With Open Policy Agent Part 2

Writing and using functions in OPA’s rego language.
Thu, 2020 Jun 25 4:43 PM — 4:43 PM
Code Video

Rules Based Systems With Open Policy Agent

How to use OPA to better write and maintain rules-based systems.
Wed, 2020 Jun 24 7:00 PM — 7:20 PM
Code Video
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Meet the Team

Partners

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Loh Siu Yin

Broadcast Technology Consultant

Thinking and Learning, Improving Human Communications, Optimizing Processes

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Yuen Kit Siew

Education Consultant

Enabling a new generation of students, Philosophy

Track Record

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All Training Consulting Software

Airbus Wav Handling

  1. airbus-wav-handling is an extension module to the Airbus asset management system.

Sched: broadcast scheduling software

  1. A simple, extensible broadcast scheduling system.

Audio Expander

  1. audio-expander is a command line tool to expand audio entries for an archive retrival document.

Mediaflex DRA Interface

  1. Data interface to receive updates from TMD’s Mediaflex MAM for Discovery’s DRA asset manager.

VODOSSext-query

  1. A rule-based query engine for Oracle’s (formerly Front Porch Digital) DIVA archive system.

Intermediate Broadcast Technology for Engineers

  1. Customized broadcast training for Singtel.

SIX XML translator

  1. Translates Broadview XML schedules to Harris V12 playlist for SIX channels.

Broadcast Technology Workflows

  1. Training at AV8 on behalf of IABM.

Network Essentials for Broadcast Engineers

  1. Training at AV8 on behalf of IABM.

Airbus: Heavy Asset Mover/Tracker

  1. Customized asset manager for Discovery Singapore.

ITE Academic Advisory Committee Member

  1. Appointed committee member for term of 2 years.

Broadcast Fundamentals

  1. Customized training for Singtel.

dplay JSON Combiner / Generator

  1. json metadata packager for Discovery’s dplay platform.

SET/MSM, SAB,PAL,AATH, PIX,YAY XML Translators

  1. Broadview XML schedule to Harris v12 translators.

Broadcast Fundamentals

  1. Customised training for Singtel.

MAX XML Translator

  1. Broadview XML Schedule to Harris v12 translator.

Network Essentials for Broadcast Engineers

  1. Training at AV8 on behalf of IABM

SCM: Scripps Content Migrator

  1. Broadcast content migrator.

Broadcast and IP Basics

  1. Customised training for Eurovision Singapore.

GEC XML Translator

  1. Translates Broadview XML schedules to Harris v12 playlists for GEC channels.

Broadcast Consultant to Willis Towers Watson

2017, 2018. Willis Towers Watson Singapore deployed Beyond Broadcasts’ Loh Siu Yin as their consultant for Workforce Singapore’s Skills Framework for Media study

DRC: Digital Readiness Content

  1. A broadcast content repackager for streaming services.

Vertigo Data Translator

  1. Microsoft SQL database source to Grass Valley (now Belden) Vertigo channel branding.

DRA Web Frontend

  1. Frontend to Discovery’s DRA asset management system.

B to B IP Video for Broadcasters

  1. Customised broadcast training for Eurovision Singapore.

Video Audio Practicals

  1. Customised training for Singtel.

Broadcast Operations and Troubleshooting

  1. Customised broadcast training for Globecast Singapore.

Broadcast Technology Update

  1. Customised broadcast training for Globecast Singapore.

Broadcast Fundamentals

  1. Customised training for Singtel.

Introduction to OTT Television

  1. Customised training for Singtel.

Media Asset Management Consultant to Astro Malaysia

2014, 2015. Specified, evaluated and recommended systems.

Engineering Support on Behalf of TSL Systems

2013 - 2016. Supported Mediacorp and McGraw Hill (now Standard and Poors TV) on behalf of TSL Systems Integration (UK).

Broadcast Consultant to AETN

  1. AETN Asia is part of A+E Networks.

Broadcast Consultant to ESPN Star Sports

2010, 2011. ESS was a joint venture between ESPN and Star TV.

First-line Support on Behalf of Pacific Perspectives

2010, 2011. Supported TMD’s Mediaflex MAM at Asia Broadcast Centre (now Encompass).

Broadcast Consultant to ST Teleport

2009, 2010. ST Teleport was a component company of ST Telemedia Singapore.

Broadcast Consultant to Sin Mian Pte Ltd

2008 - 2012. Sin Mian was the main contractor to Myanmar’s MWD Digital TV Project and International Convention Centre.

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