As part of its strategy for offering solutions tailored to the full range of broadcast, corporate, government, and editorial workflows and budgets, Volicon has announced a significant expansion of its award-winning Observer family of digital video logging and monitoring systems.

At the 2010 NAB Show, Volicon will unveil a new product family that includes three versions of the Observer: Observer Professional, targeted for budget-conscious television stations and companies that require streamlined features and workflows for scheduled recording, searching media mentions, and clipping for quick export; Observer Enterprise for larger broadcasting networks that require 24x7 multichannel media monitoring and compliance logging; and Observer Enterprise Plus for the largest and most complex editorial production facilities that require multiple bit rates and resolutions for high-resolution finishing. At the same time, Volicon will introduce a streamlined user interface for the Mac and Windows platforms and expanded Web browser support, plus enhancements to the Observer's search capabilities and the Scheduled Recording Module.

"For broadcast facilities of all sizes, the Observer brings new levels of efficiency to tasks as varied as troubleshooting transmissions, ensuring compliance, verifying advertising, and analysing demographic viewer ratings for each channel being monitored," said Michael Asebrook, senior marketing product manager for Volicon. "As we've learned from our customers, different organisations have different monitoring requirements depending on their size, platform, and the complexity of their workflows. With the new product family, our customers can now select the Observer version that's the best match to their operation and budget. The new features from the expanded Observer family of products will provide an unsurpassed level of portability and productivity to a wide range of user workflows within broadcast organisations."

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