DigitalVision 2010 Summer - June 23
Company Background:
Volicon is the broadcast and cable industry’s most efficient, reliable, and cost-effective automated multichannel video content logging and monitoring system for compliance, media analysis, content repurposing, and quality of service. Its Observer® real-time, digital video monitoring and logging solutions are based on Volicon’s patent-pending Video Monitoring Architecture (VMA). VMA is comprised of a multichannel video streaming engine, interactive search, content analytics, and service monitoring and alarming capabilities. Volicon products and services meet the demanding requirements of broadcasters, cable and IPTV service providers, and enterprise and government organizations looking to improve broadcast product quality, enhance video management, and lower costs.
Volicon Products at DigitalVision 2010 Summer:
Volicon Observer®
As the industry standard for video monitoring and logging, the Volicon Observer® captures, stores, and indexes broadcast content from multiple channels, offering users simultaneous, 24/7 access to video from their desktop computers. The Observer brings new levels of efficiency to critical broadcasting tasks including monitoring and troubleshooting transmissions, ensuring compliance, verifying advertising broadcasts, and tracking and analyzing viewer ratings and public relations information.
At DigitalVision 2010 Summer, Volicon will showcase a significant expansion of the Observer product family that addresses the full range of broadcast workflows and budgets. Newly developed capabilities include a new streamlined user interface supporting both the Windows® and Mac® operating systems; support for Internet Explorer®, Safari®, Chrome™, and Firefox® browsers; and integrated export functionality to H.264, Flash, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4. In addition, several enhancements have been made to the search engine and scheduled recording module.
The Observer product family now includes:
Observer® Professional
Designed specifically for budget-conscious television stations and organizations that require simplified workflows for media monitoring, the Observer® Professional includes an intuitive, streamlined user interface for both Mac® and PC platforms, and features that enable quick and easy scheduling, recording, and enhanced searching with auto-complete technology on key media mentions in the video stream. The optional Electronic Programming Guide (EPG)-based Scheduled Recording Module enables scheduled, selective recording of specific broadcast channels within designated time periods. The Observer Professional supports up to four channels of SD or one single channel of HD, supporting 10 concurrent users (with expansion to 25), and offers up to 90 days of storage for archived video.
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Observer® Enterprise
The Observer® Enterprise is a fully redundant, enterprise-grade, 24x7 automated record and search appliance targeted to broadcasting networks for media monitoring and compliance workflows. The Observer Enterprise solution offers a range of intuitive features designed to automate manual monitoring tasks that save valuable time and resources. Users can choose between the streamlined or enterprise-level user interface, and the system offers enhanced searching capabilities that include new auto-complete technology to help find closed-caption text even faster than before. The Observer Enterprise includes integrated Nielsen Ratings for side-by-side competitive analysis based on viewership, and also supports Volicon’s optional Content Matching and Producer Modules for audio fingerprinting and content repurposing workflows. The system supports monitoring of unlimited channels and unlimited user access, inputs for analog, SDI, and HD-SDI sources, and up to two years of storage.
Observer® RPM
The Observer® RPM (Remote Program Monitor) provides quality-of-experience monitoring for IPTV, MSOs, independent cable operators, and satellite operators who need to evaluate NOC/headend and remote hubsite broadcasts automatically from a central location. The Observer RPM is a post set-top box solution that scans hundreds of channels around the clock and automatically tests signal integrity, issues alerts (via e-mail and SNMP), and captures the problematic content when channels do not conform to prespecified limits.
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Volicon’s quote:
“The DigitalVision 2010 Virtual Exhibit Hall is an exciting new trade show concept that is sure to become an industry standard, and we are pleased to be participating for the first time,” said Eli Warsawski, president and CEO of Volicon. “We are looking forward to showing DigitalVision attendees how our award-winning solutions can increase efficiencies, strengthen compliance, improve the quality of transmissions, and reduce the costs of video logging, monitoring, and recording.”
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