The Vatican's on-demand streaming TV debuts on Monday 8 June. The platform is called VatiVision and will collect a series of contents related to the Christian religion: it will be available worldwide in multiscreen modejust log on to the site vativision. com, or download the app on smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and set-top boxes. VatiVision will also be available from day one on TIMVISION, TIM's TV, "and - explains a note - it will soon also be available on other international telecommunications operators, broadcasters and media companies, also by virtue of strategic agreements that the company is making with the main players in the sector”.
It therefore starts next Monday at 10 in the morning with an inaugural event in live streaming, during which, in addition to the founders, representatives of the ecclesiastical world, partners of the initiative and protagonists of the artistic panorama will intervene. The two protagonists of the project, from a technological point of view, are Communication Workshop, a film production company which in recent years has collaborated with various Vatican institutions, e Vetrya, an Umbrian group listed on the Milan Stock Exchange and specialized in the development of digital services, platforms and solutions that have made the creation of the technological platform possible.
At launch, VatiVision already counts a rich catalogue with valuable contents, religious documentaries, such as Lourdes and the Great Popes, films and documentaries dedicated to the great biographies such as Padre Pio or in the artistic field, art documentaries that offer thematic itineraries of sure impact. All content that it will be possible to buy or rent comfortably from the sofa at home and on the move. Main sponsor of the project is UBI Banca, which has supported the initiative since its conception and will continue to support it for the next few years, also as a technical partner.
"Renew communication - commented the President and CEO of the Vetrya Group and President of VatiVision Luca Tomassini -, using modern tools and languages, while optimizing the distribution efficiency of video content thanks to digital technology: this is the goal of VatiVision, a one-of-a-kind OTT platform. With the service launched today, we turn our gaze towards a potential audience made up of over a billion Catholic faithful worldwide, with the intention of offering them content of undisputed quality and contributing to a profound innovation in the methods of conveying the Christian message. Like Vetrya, we are proud to have developed this project which, we are sure, will mark an important page in the history of digital technology.”
"We are happy to finally be able to make a valuable service available to users - declared the company's CEOs Nicola Salvi ed Elizabeth alone -, the result of the sensitivity, knowledge and experience that Officina della Comunicazione and Vetrya have gained over the years in their respective sectors, we strongly believe in the VatiVision project and in its mission, which is to offer a service capable of contributing through new technologies at our disposal to further spread the Christian message with contents of great value and narrative depth. We thank all the content providers who have enthusiastically accepted our proposal by providing VatiVision with high-value films and documentaries and we thank the public who will access the platform to benefit from our proposals in advance".
“We have chosen to support VatiVision because it represents a unique project of extraordinary cultural but also social value – he concluded Riccardo Tramezzani, UBI Community Manager of UBI Banca -. It is an initiative in which we have believed since the beginning and whose sensitivity and objectives we share, confident that, in line with the new digital consumption methods, it will be able to represent an effective tool of communication and spiritual enrichment on a global scale" .
