HD streaming of Pope’s Christmastide celebrations

(December 21, 2010) Vatican Radio’s website is offering its users a new service for this Christmas. Visitors to our website can have live audio or video streaming in high definition, of the various liturgical celebrations presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. The events in UTC (GMT) time are: the Vigil Mass on Friday, December 24 starting at 21.00 hrs; the Christmas Message with the "Urbi et Orbi" blessing on December 25 starting at 11:00 hrs; and the marking of the World Day of Peace on January 1 at 09.00 hrs. Audio streaming will be available in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. A live commentary in Chinese will also be available for the December 24 Vigil Mass; and for the celebration on January 1, a live Arabic commentary will also be available. To access the player, go to our homepage at www.vaticanradio.org and click on "Audio Video Player" on the top-left. The player also has another important change - the "Vatican Tic" - which gives the Holy Father’s calendar of activities.