And now, B16 in high-def! -
Sony will provide CTV with a mobile
HD-capable broadcast center
Translated from
the Italian service of
March 3, 2010
The Vatican television center CTV has decided to have Sony Professional provide it with a new mobile unit completely equipped for high-definition TV filming and broadcasting. The new mobile unit is expected to be delivered in October.
"The transition to High Definition," said Fr. federico Lombardi, director general fo CTV, "represents for us a development necessary to our service of transmitting the activities of the Pope and other Vatican events, in order to keep CTV in the vanguard and as a reference point for international broadcasting".
For this phase of updating, he continued, "we sought a partner that not only has a depth of technical knowledge but also a level of competence and a capacity to manage such a project with grezt reliability. We chose Sony with which CTV has worked for over 20 years."
For his part, the head of Media Business for Sony-Italia, Bentito Manlio Mari, said Sony was committed to work in closest collaboration with CTV from the very beginning of the new project.
The funding for the project comes from the CTV budget itself, supplemented by contriibutions from foundations like the Knights of Columbus, which had donated the mobile center now in use.
CTV, established in 1983, documents the pastoral ministry of the Pope and the activities of the Holy See. Every year, it records some 200 Vatican events in entirety, in addition to its work on the Pope's trips in Italy and abroad.
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