Friday, April 18, 2014

Saints alive !

Spare some religious fervour for next weekend as well.

The ceremony at which Pope Francis will raise predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII to sainthood will be transmitted live in 3D (and Ultra HD) - and the Vatican has turned to (the) Sky for some three-dimensional expertise.

Sky Italia is flying out a range of news hands from Osterley to help with calling the shots, with pictures provided by six stereo pairs of HD cameras and three HDCam cameras converted on the fly, supported by UK firm Telegenic. Sky News has previously seen Catholic ceremonial as a potential audience winner - internally, a proposal to offer a 24-hour "Pope Channel" during the 2010 visit by Benedict to England and Scotland got as far as working out whether it would be possible to leave a camera on windows of buildings where Il Papa was sleeping before someone saw sense.

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