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Compliance Monitoring Shifts Into Swiss Army Knife Mode

In a post-Volicon era, monitoring and compliance tools have gone beyond just making sure content meets regulatory requirements, moving into new broadcast environments and rolling out features designed to ease workflows. Above: Vela’s Encompass product showing both channel and transport stream analysis to help ensure quality of service.

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Engineers Scramble To Replace Volicon Observer

Compliance monitoring solution providers look to take advantage of an “unprecedented” situation after Verizon announced plans to phase out its U.S. market-leading product.

IBC 2016 PRODUCTS PREVIEW

From The IBC Exhibit Floor: Volicon

Volicon | Stand 7.G23 | Website: www.volicon.com Since last year’s show in Amsterdam, Volicon has joined the Verizon Digital Media Services family in an acquisition that complements the companies’ mutual […]

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Volicon Adds Balasundaram To Engineering Team

Verizon Digital Media Services Buys Volicon

Verizon DMS Announces Acquisition Of Volicon

NAB 2015 Tech: Volicon’s Archiver

Volicon | Booth SU7916 | Website: www.volicon.com Volicon is debuting the new Archiver option for its Observer Media Intelligence Platform. Addressing broadcasters’ need for convenient, cost-effective long-term storage of aired […]

NAB 2015: Volicon/Nexida Products Introduction

 Volicon/Nexidia | Booth SU7916 (Volicon) & SL13705 (Nexidia) | Websites: www.volicon.com & www.nexidia.tv On Sunday at the 2015 NAB Show, Volicon and Nexidia announced the release of a joint solution […]

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KTVU And KICU Upgrade With Volicon

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Volicon, Kaltura Intro Web Captioning Workflow

Volicon To Unveil New Observer Applications

TECH SPOTLIGHT

Monitoring Tech Expands Station Options

As the power of IT grows and financial constraints drive station purchasing, what began as simple compliance monitoring is clearly evolving into new areas for TV stations. Over time, the features have grown dramatically to include monitoring of the entire broadcast chain. With their help, broadcasters can catch frozen video frames, closed-caption glitches, soundtrack mistakes, missing metadata and dozens of other errors. The latest wrinkle: audio loudness monitoring for compliance with the CALM Act (as pictured on Volicon’s Observer).

Scripps Taps Volicon Monitoring For Its Stations

Volicon today announced that Scripps Media is standardizing on the Observer TS (transport stream) digital video monitoring and logging system across all 13 of its stations. Each Scripps Media station […]

LIVE FROM NAB

Volicon Revamps Observer Monitoring

In addition, it introduces a premium spin-off product, New Observer, that features a more powerful processing platform as well as five inputs for additional logging capabilities. For all that’s going on at NAB 2012, click here.

NAB 2012: Volicon Products Preview

2012 NAB Show Preview Volicon Booth SU5715 Website: www.volicon.com    Volicon provides the broadcast and cable industries with scalable, reliable, cost-effective and easy-to-use video content logging and monitoring system for […]

GEARING UP FOR NAB: AUDIO

Loudness Gear To Make Big Noise At NAB

Now that the FCC has decided on tech specs for TV commercial audio loudness, broadcasters will be in a buying mood to get in compliance by the end of the year. A host of companies will be offering equipment and software  to monitor and correct any potential problems and document compliance.

Volicon Names Jennifer Knutel Sr. Marketing Dir.

Volicon today announced the appointment of Jennifer Knutel as the company’s senior director of marketing. Knutel brings 16 years of professional marketing experience to this position, in which she will […]

IBC 2011: Volicon Products Preview

2011 IBC Show Preview Volicon Stand 7.J16 Volicon provides the broadcast and cable industries with automated multichannel video content logging and monitoring systems. New products this year include: Observer TS—Making […]

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WGBH Uses Volicon For Video Monitoring, Logging

Volicon today announced that PBS station WGBH Boston (DMA 7) is using the Observer Professional for digital video content monitoring and logging. With the Volicon system, WGBH is monitoring its […]

NAB 2011: Volicon Products Preview

2011 NAB Show Preview Volicon Booth SU5902 Volicon provides the broadcast and cable industries with automated a multichannel video content logging and monitoring system for compliance, media analysis, content repurposing […]