Dick Corballis was the first live news program of the network to transition to HD on April 1, 2018. On April 19, 2009, Sony announced the acquisition of ABS-CBN of 24 units of its Sony high-definition professional video cameras through a press release published on Sony's official website. On July 11, 2009, ABS-CBN launched a high definition feed of Balls in SkyCable under the name Balls HD, the first local high-definition TV channel in the history of Philippine television. In the same day, Balls HD broadcast the first locally produced coverage of an event in high-definition	ABS-CBN HD
12234988	, the UAAP Season 72 basketball game which was produced by ABS-CBN Sports. In addition, two of its three news helicopters are capable of transmitting high-definition live feeds from its 5 axis gimbal HD camera mounted on the aircraft. On April 20, 2010, Ikegami, a Japanese manufacturer of professional and broadcast television equipment announced the acquisition of ABS-CBN of 75 units of Ikegami high-definition professional video cameras for electronic news gathering. On October 3, 2015, ABS-CBN launched a high-definition feed in SkyCable and Destiny Cable under the name ABS-CBN HD. This marked the Philippines	ABS-CBN HD
12234989	' first commercial television network to be launched in high-definition. The said channel would broadcast selected shows of ABS-CBN in true high-definition picture while the remaining shows would be broadcast in upscaled standard definition picture with pillarbox to preserve its original . On April 1, 2018, all ABS-CBN news shows shown on the network such as Umagang Kay Ganda, TV Patrol, and Bandila just like most shows that air on the said channel. On May 5, 2020, ABS-CBN HD was dissolved at 7:52pm after ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air due to cease and desist 	ABS-CBN HD
12234990	order from the National Telecommunications Commission after its broadcast franchise expired the previous day. It was replaced with Kapamilya Channel HD on June 13, 2020. ABS-CBN HD ABS-CBN HD was a Philippine pay television channel, working as the high-definition feed of ABS-CBN. It was launched on October 3, 2015 initially on Sky Cable and Destiny Cable and later on iWant, Sky On Demand, and Sky Direct, broadcasting in 1080i at a frame rate of 50 fps (via Sky Direct) or at 60fps. Until May 5, 2020, all Sky Cable and Sky Direct plans in Metro Manila 	ABS-CBN HD
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12234992	Dick Corballis Dick Corballis Richard Patrick Corballis (24 March 1946 – 20 July 2016) was a New Zealand academic who specialised in the study of Irish literature, and particularly the writings of James Joyce. Early life, family and education. Born on 24 March 1946, Corballis was the son of Alice Elizabeth Corballis (née Harris) and Philip Patrick Corballis, and the youngest brother of psychologist Michael Corballis. Educated at Wanganui Collegiate School, he went on to study at the University of Canterbury, graduating Master of Arts in 1967, and the University of Southampton, where he was awarded a PhD in 1972. His doctoral thesis 	Dick Corballis
12234993	was entitled George Chapman's development as a comic dramatist". In 1969 Corballis married Penny Dawson, and the couple went on to have three children. Career. Corbaliis was on the faculty at the University of Canterbury for 19 years, before moving to Massey University, where he was appointed professor and head of department of English, and involved in the establishment of that institution's campus at Albany in Auckland. He served on the council of Massey University from 1993 to 1997, and in 1997 was appointed as the first head of the School of English and Media Studies at Massey . In 2001 Corballis was elected to the governing body of the International Association of University Professors of English. Corballis' research focused on Irish literature and he was particularly interested in the works of James Joyce. However, he also published on the works of other writers, including Witi Ihimaera and Tom Stoppard. In 2008, Corballis was writer in residence at the Michael King Writers' Centre in Devonport, Auckland, where is conducted research for a biography of New Zealand playwright, Bruce Mason. Later life and death. Corballis retired from Massey University in 2011. He died in Wellington on 20 July 2016. Dick