...following products to attendees. The Observer® video logging and monitoring solution supports a range of valuable applications including media monitoring and compliance. With the Observer system, users can log their own and competitors' broadcasts, as well as search, retrieve, analyze, and export video clips with metadata, locally or remotely. The Volicon system addresses the requirements of compliance logging by providing the continuous recording necessary for broadcasters to verify that the right balance of advertising and program content has been aired, and to show whether or not guidelines for offensive language and images have been met appropriately.

New Observer® TS 7.0—The Observer® TS MPEG Transport Stream logging and monitoring system helps satellite, cable, broadcast, and IPTV operators address the volume and complexity of broadcast and network services. The newly enhanced version of Observer TS accommodates an even broader array of inputs, including ASI, QAM, 8-VSB, and DVB-T MPEG TS interfaces. It also boasts improved system density for HD and SD programs and simpler ease-of-use interfaces.

The system allows users to record (log) MPEG transport streams continuously and monitor the A/V content including BS.1770-2 loudness, NAVE, and other correlations of data and video. Additionally, Observer allows users to stream and export content remotely to all stakeholders in the media enterprise. As Observer TS logs the full transport stream, the user is able to go back an hour, a day, a week, or a month to examine and/or export content and effectively eliminate chronic issues with service handoffs. Low bit rate proxies, WMV or H.264, and DVR-like frame-accurate controls allow for easy content review, even when operating over an enterprise network or WAN. The logging, review, and export capabilities allow operators to troubleshoot problems quickly and distinguish customers' issues in their network from issues with the service handoff.