As announced a few weeks ago, and based on input from over 100 responses to our online survey, I am pleased to announce that OLTV has a new home with improved technology and more than double the content of our previous site.

The new site has a new address and is:  www.oltv.tv.  It’s available FREE of CHARGE – but we are asking for donations to the OL Foundation, which are tax deductible, to help support and continue to provide this ministry to the entire Church – Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Oriental Orthodox.

We have designed a new user interface and made the menu navigation simpler than before.  There is no longer a need to register to view the content, but we ask that you do, so that we can keep you informed of updates in the future.  Watching the videos should be easier and faster because we have moved all of the shows to a comprehensive video streaming website that automatically detects the best quality and speed to display on your computer.

Finally, we now have over 50 hours of programs numbering over 600 clips for you to watch.  Most programs are available in their entirety, but when there is a series of programs that are related, we include the first one completely and have “samplers” of the rest of the series online.  If you like the series, we ask you to purchase the remaining shows on DVD so we can generate some revenue to pay for the maintenance of the site and so we can afford to create more programs for OLTV in the future.

The programs are organized into five categories:

• Orientale Lumen Plenary sessions:  selected presentations from past OL conferences on various topics
• Orientale Lumen Liturgies:  selected liturgical services from past OL conferences that include mostly Divine Liturgies, but also other services such as Moleben, Akathist and Vespers
• Theological Lectures:  presentations recorded exclusively for OLTV on various topics by leading theologians such as Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia and Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ
• Audio/Video Books:  we are converting several of our most popular books into audio and video formats wherein the author reads the text of the book so you can purchase a CD for your car or office, or the DVD series to use for Adult Enrichment in your parish
• Special Events:  a wide range of liturgical services at special Eastern Church events around the world in English, Church Slavonic, Greek and Arabic.

More programs are planned and will be made available as they are completed.  All OLTV programs are available to purchase in either DVD or CD format for personal or parish use from the online catalog at www.olconference.com.

Go have a look at the site and let us know what you think!  Also, if you like what you see, please consider giving a donation to help keep OLTV up and running, and “on the air”!