ABS-CBN WILLING TO SPEND P5 BILLION FOR THE NATIONAL DIGITAL SHIFT!

ABS-CBN Corp. plans to raise P5 billion for the rollout of digital terrestrial television (DTT) nationwide, company officials said.Rolando Valdueza, ABS-CBN chief finance officer, said the company has spent P500 million for a movie library for digital TV."It depends on the take-up. If necessary, we will do some fund-raising if we’re going to do a nationwide rollout," Valdueza said.Valdueza said the company is hopeful the commercial rollout of the new technology could take place this year.
The implementing rules and regulations on DTT were supposed to be released in June but Malacañang directed the NTC to evaluate the standard offered by a European consortium.ABS-CBN prefers the ISDTV technology of Japan, which is being tested in Pampanga.ABS-CBN launched in April a digital TV service called DTV digibox, which aims to capture 90 percent of low-income households without cable in the country.The digibox will be serve as the viewers’ gateway to five new premium TV channels on free-to-air TV. It will be initially available in Luzon this year then in the Visayas and Mindanao next year.Digibox rates range from P1,000 to P3,000.Customer can also watch other channels like ABS-CBN Channel 2, Studio 23, NBN and GEM.Since 2007, ABS-CBN has been laying the groundwork for the new technology, the broadcaster said. The network’s DTV system in place and ready to be rolled out in the second half of the year.

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How to Make Digital 8-Bit Style Corners Using Only CSS

A recent project of ours brought up a bit of discussion on whether to use images or try and develop a CSS method for creating a digital 8-bit style effect for corners. Since we always like a challenge we decided to go the 100% CSS route and the result was beautiful quick rendering 8-bit style corners requiring zero images. There is only one drawback to using this method; you must use a solid color background in your design. We decided that since there are no tutorials that we could find teaching this method we would release it to the design community; we know it’s a very specific style for specific projects but hopefully one day you might find a use for it.

The first step is to create the basic generic DIV that will house each section’s content. This is all pretty basic CSS and XHTML and pretty self explanatory. The only item to pay special attention to is the relative positioning used on the main DIV, this is needed because we will be absolute positioning our corners inside our main DIV.

.section{width: 500px;float: left;border: 10px solid #FF6600;background: #fff;position: relative;}.section_content{display: block;padding: 25px;overflow: hidden;}

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The next step is to create the corners and position them. To limit the markup we will use the same class for all corners and then position them using a 2nd unique class for each specific corner. You still won’t be able to see any difference from the previous step, so don’t freak out when nothing changes.

.corner{width: 15px;position: absolute;z-index: 9;}.tl{top: -10px;left: -10px;}.tr{top: -10px;right: -10px;}.bl{bottom: -10px;left: -10px;}.br{bottom: -10px;right: -10px;}

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The next step is to add 3 DIVs to each of the main corner DIVs, these 3 DIVs will be our building blocks for creating the 8-bit effect. After you finish this step you will notice there are a lot of alignment issues and things look out of whack, no worries this will be fixed with only a few lines of CSS in the final step.

.corner .a{width: 5px;height: 10px;float: left;display: block;background: #fff;}.corner .b{width: 5px;height: 5px;float: left;display: block;background: #fff;}.corner .c{width: 10px;height: 10px;float: left;display: block;background: #FF6600;}

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Step 4: Fixing Alignment
The last and final step will fix the alignment issues from the previous step, since the XTHML markup is complete all you need to do is apply the CSS and you’re finished.

.tr .a, .tr .b,.tr .c, .br .a,.br .b, .br .c{float: right;}.bl .a,.br .a{border-top: 5px solid #FF6600;}

.section{width: 500px;float: left;border: 10px solid #FF6600;background: #fff;position: relative;}.section_content{display: block;padding: 25px;overflow: hidden;}.corner{width: 15px;position: absolute;z-index: 9;}.tl{top: -10px;left: -10px;}.tr{top: -10px;right: -10px;}.bl{bottom: -10px;left: -10px;}.br{bottom: -10px;right: -10px;}.corner .a{width: 5px;height: 10px;float: left;display: block;background: #fff;}.corner .b{width: 5px;height: 5px;float: left;display: block;background: #fff;}.corner .c{width: 10px;height: 10px;float: left;display: block;background: #FF6600;}.tr .a, .tr .b,.tr .c, .br .a,.br .b, .br .c{float: right;}.bl .a,.br .a{border-top: 5px solid #FF6600;}

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If anybody has any questions or knows of a way to simplify this method please let us know in the comments. Also if you have used this method on any project please leave a link in the comments, we would love to see it in action.

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Shay Mitchell & Tyler Blackburn: Delete Digital Drama Duo

Shay Mitchell and Tyler Blackburn hit the tile walkway as they arrive at the Delete Digital Drama Rally held at The Americana on Thursday afternoon (July 14) in Glendale, Calif.

The Pretty Little Liars co-stars came out to show their support for the campaign, which brings awareness to online bullying and encourage Millennials to take action!

Shay, who had to leave early, tweeted, “I’m so sorry for not being able to stay longer at the #deletedigitaldrama rally but I had 2 go back to work! Huge thanks 2 every1 who came!”

Remember to tune into Cyberbully – Sunday, July 17th @ 8PM ET/PT on ABC Family.

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