Volicon has made available their Volicon Observer(r) Professional, the newest member of the company's award-winning Observer family of broadcast monitoring and logging systems. The Observer Professional offers a powerful yet affordable solution for budget-conscious broadcasters and companies seeking to streamline their workflows for broadcast compliance logging and media monitoring.

One key feature of the Observer Professional is Volicon's new streamlined user interface, built on Microsoft(r) Silverlight(tm). The Observer Professional also features the latest enhancements to the Observer's search capabilities, including options for simple and advanced search queries, along with a new auto-complete search feature that searches recorded closed-captioned text embedded in the video stream for easier identification and refinement. The system's closed-caption display includes an option to display video thumbnails and time codes, along with an integrated copy-and-paste function for export.

Observer Professional supports one to four channel inputs and up to five concurrent users, and offers up to 90 days of storage for archived video. In addition, the Observer Professional includes a revamped electronic programming guide (EPG)-based Scheduled Recording Module for scheduled, selective recording of specific broadcast channels within designated time periods. The system supports the Mac(r) and Windows(r) operating systems as well as Internet Explorer(r), Safari(r), and Firefox(r), Web browsers along with integrated capabilities for quick export of recorded Observer content to H.264, Flash, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4 formats.