GTEC 2010 Volicon Booth 224 - October 5th-6th
Company Background
Volicon provides the broadcast and cable industries with the 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 Observer® Family
As the industry standard for video monitoring and logging, the Volicon Observer® captures, stores, and indexes broadcast content from multiple channels, offering users simultaneous access to video from their desktop computers. Recently, Volicon announced a significant expansion of the Observer product family to address the full range of broadcast workflows and budgets. The Observer product family now includes Observer Professional, designed specifically for budget-conscious television stations and organizations that require simplified workflows for media monitoring; Observer Enterprise, a fully redundant, enterprise-grade, 24x7 automated record-and-search appliance targeted to broadcasting networks for media monitoring and compliance workflows; and Observer Remote Program Monitor (RPM), providing quality-of-experience monitoring for IPTV, MSOs, independent cable operators, and satellite operators.
Volicon Products at GTEC 2010:
Now Shipping: Observer® Professional
Based on Microsoft® Silverlight™, the Observer® Professional includes an intuitive, streamlined user interface for both Mac® and PC platforms that supports Internet Explorer®, Safari®, Google Chrome™, and Firefox® browsers, as well as integrated export functionality to H.264, Flash®, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4. Volicon will demonstrate significant enhancements to the Observer Professional’s optional Scheduled Recording Module, which integrates with electronic programming guides (EPGs) to enable quick and easy scheduling, recording, and enhanced searching with auto-complete technology on key media mentions in the video stream.
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Image Caption: Observer® Professional Scheduled Recording Module
Observer® Enterprise
The Observer® Enterprise is a next-generation media monitoring and logging solution that correlates several months of video and audio data all within a single Web browser client application. Beyond the core, mission-critical functions of quality and compliance monitoring, the Observer Enterprise offers high value throughout the organization — from marketing, sales, and traffic to business planning and management. By integrating innovative add-on modules such as proactive, automated quality-of-service alarms; auto as-run log import; content matching of audio cues for ad verification; and viewer ratings data for in-depth competitive analysis, the Observer Enterprise is a truly versatile digital logging and monitoring solution.
Volicon’s quote:
“Effective media monitoring with Observer® systems can help government organizations of all sizes to gauge how department messages are being communicated and received by the public, enforce compliance with broadcasting regulations, and keep officials informed of relevant breaking news and developments,” said Mike Asebrook, senior director of product marketing at Volicon. “At GTEC 2010 we’ll demonstrate how the latest Observer enhancements, such as our Silverlight™ architecture and Scheduled Recording Module, simplify and add even greater value to media monitoring in the government sector.”
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