Vatican
City, 27 June 2013
(VIS) – This morning in the Holy See Press Office, there was a
presentation of the agreement between Vatican Television and Canal 21
(the television channel of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires,
Argentina) as well as of the new Master Control Room that will make
digital archiving possible. Speaking at the press conference were:
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council
for Social Communications; Msgr. Dario Edoardo Vigano, director of
Vatican Television; Julio Rimoldi, director of Canal 21; and Stefano
D'Agostini of Vatican Television.
Vatican
Television is in the process of completely digitizing its television
signals. The project, already begun with the acquisition of a high
def mobile unit, is continuing with the building, in collaboration
with Sony, of a new Master Control Room on the top floor of the
Vatican Television building, which will be the hub of the signals.
The
new, technologically advanced structure will allow the transformation
into and usage of the signals as “files”, with clear advantages
for their exchange and storage.
The
entire process, from shooting, to editing, to archiving, will become
“tapeless”, that is, without the use of the magnetic tapes that
are still the weak point in the creation and maintenance of valuable
archives such as Vatican Television's, which holds 30 years of images
from the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and now Pope
Francis.
The
agreement with Canal 21, which allows Vatican Television to acquire
and distribute the Argentinian channel's large archives covering the
activities of Cardinal Bergoglio up to 13 March 2013, the day of his
election to the throne of Peter, is also part of this initiative.
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