<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Jul 12, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Dave Sieg wrote:<br><br>> It was the first digital frame store / frame synchronizer made in the late seventies.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I say:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The first synchronizer was the NEC FS-10. NBC was the first to use it, I think in Burbank to sync the network feed to local house timing back in 1974. This device took up an entire 7-foot rack and must have weighed several hundred pounds.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>WSM-TV in Nashville bought an early one right after NBC. Here's a picture of it:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/558110461/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/558110461/</a>><br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>NBC Today Show, New York<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Quantel's Chinese website </div><div><a href="http://quantel.cn/site/en.nsf/html/MCLN-6QLDXV">http://quantel.cn/site/en.nsf/html/MCLN-6QLDXV</a></div><div><br></div><div>has a history outline that reports:</div><div>1975 Quantel demonstrates the DFS 3000, the world’s first digital framestore synchroniser. TV coverage of the 1976 Montreal Olympic games is transformed with synchronised shots from an airship ‘blimp’ freely used and quarter-sized picture inserts mark the genesis of digital effects.</div><div><br></div><div>The 20th anniversary "Digital Factbook" has quite a bit of useful information:</div><div><a href="http://www.quantel.com/repository/files/library_DigitalFactBook_20th.pdf">http://www.quantel.com/repository/files/library_DigitalFactBook_20th.pdf</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Haven't been able to google up anything concrete about the NEC unit, except for this snippet of an IEEE article:</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#551A8B" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><h3 class="r" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; display: inline; "><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/5081/13870/00640336.pdf?arnumber=640336" class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','6','')" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); "><em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; ">Quantel</em>, The First Fifteen Years - UK Broadcast Manufactuerers <b>...</b></a></h3><span style="display: inline-block; "></span><div class="s" style="max-width: 42em; ">But <em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; ">Quantel</em> was not alone in the market place, competition came mainly from. NEC who offered an NTSC synchroniser. 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