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Volicon Offers Extended Storage for its Observer® Video Monitoring and Archiving Solution
SOURCE: Volicon · POSTED: 04/23/07
LAS VEGAS -- Volicon, a provider of media monitoring, recording, archiving, and streaming solutions, today announced the availability of an extended storage option for the company's Observer® video monitoring solution. With the capacity to store content from four channels for up to one year, the Observer ExtendStore® online storage option enables hassle-free FCC and ASCAP/BMI compliance and simplifies both internal governance and fulfillment requests from viewers and advertisers.
"The minimum requirements for storage of aired broadcasts differ broadly among stations, government agencies, and other stakeholders," said Julius Perl, Volicon's vice president of marketing. "Without a uniformly defined standard, more and more broadcasters are choosing the flexibility of one- and two-year digital storage configurations. The new Observer ExtendStore enables such long-term storage in a 'set-it-and-forget-it' model that minimizes the need for human intervention and provides ready access to content when needed."
The standard Observer configuration supports up to 90 days of digital content storage, using a sliding window to maintain the most current content and eliminate the oldest. Volicon's Observer ExtendStore provides up to one year of storage for four channels, and it sets up easily for use with any existing Observer system. Multiple Observer ExtendStore units can be added to an Observer system to provide even greater capacity, whether for longer-term storage or to accommodate capture of content at a higher quality (bit rate or frame size) to allow for subsequent repurposing.
Volicon's Observer system is based on a powerful, proprietary streaming video engine and player. Using Microsoft Internet Explorer® Web interfaces, users can log broadcasts and search, retrieve, analyze, and export video clips with metadata, locally or remotely. Its easy export functionality provides for internal asset sharing or repurposing for external distribution via the Web or other platform.
Observer allows users to check not only video and audio quality, but also the presence of closed-caption information. With a real-time link to ratings data, the Observer system allows users to evaluate their broadcasts and even compare their content and ratings against those of competing stations, which in turn enables greater responsiveness in meeting the demands of viewers, regulatory agencies, and advertisers.
About Volicon
Volicon develops and markets turnkey digital video archiving and streaming solutions, including Observer multichannel video monitoring and logging system, for the television broadcast and telecommunications industries, cable programmers, cable MSOs, and corporate and government markets. Volicon's proprietary video processing system, comprised of a video encoder and streaming engine, gives a large number of users simultaneous access to multiple channels of video content over a network. More information about the Observer and other Volicon solutions is available at http://www.volicon.com/.
