Aug 10, 2006

Estonia TV Establishes Efficient, Cost-Effective Monitoring Operations With Volicon Observer

“We put great value in the cultivation of the possibilities that digital video systems can provide our operations. Volicon’s Observer system helps us capitalize on these opportunities by enabling our personnel to monitor and analyze video quickly through a simple and intuitive interface. As a result, we dedicate less time and fewer resources on our monitoring tasks, and we are able to act rapidly in addressing issues that could compromise the programming transmitted to our viewers.”

Volicon today announced that its Observer desktop video monitoring solution is going live at Eesti Televisioon (Estonian TV, or ETV) facilities in Tallinn, Estonia. The newly installed 10-channel Observer system provides ETV with a powerful, yet easy-to-use, solution for program monitoring and ratings analysis.

“We put great value in the cultivation of the possibilities that digital video systems can provide our operations,” said Risto Sirts, system architect at Eesti Televisioon. “Volicon’s Observer system helps us capitalize on these opportunities by enabling our personnel to monitor and analyze video quickly through a simple and intuitive interface. As a result, we dedicate less time and fewer resources on our monitoring tasks, and we are able to act rapidly in addressing issues that could compromise the programming transmitted to our viewers.”

Prior to deploying the Observer, ETV’s monitoring processes relied on VHS recorders and tape. Today, ETV uses the Observer system, one of the first file-based applications in which the station has invested, for more efficient station recording and archiving, monitoring of different channels in the newsroom, and for ratings analysis.

The Volicon system replaces the labor-intensive, tape-based system, giving users fast navigation capability, ratings views, and export-to-file functionality. The Observer also provides ETV with the ability to associate ratings with station content; analyze specified programming over a given time period; navigate a whole month of video content; and to burn, by request, recorded video date and time to exported video.

The station plans to implement the system for remote monitoring of channel content and has already put the Observer to the test with a wireless remote broadcast of its morning program from Tallinn Botanic Gardens. The Observer allowed engineers working remotely to use the closest Internet-connected computer to view the video, identify a problem signal, and correct it.

Winner of the NAB2006 AIM award for innovation in media, Volicon’s Observer is an advanced desktop video monitoring solution that delivers the power and capabilities of professional AV control rooms to ordinary desktop computers. Multiple channels of content are available on-demand, live, or archived from any desktop. Users have total video control with the ability to search, retrieve, view, analyze, annotate, share, and export video from the desktop. An intuitive Web-based GUI increases organizational efficiency by allowing mission-critical video broadcasts and analysis to be used as work material. The Observer system was provided to ETV by ProMedia Inc., Volicon’s distributor in Estonia.

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Volicon Observer wins TV Technology STAR Award @ IBC 2006

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