<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Saw the Vital switchers at KTVT, Fort Worth and at KLTV, Tyler. Never ran one though at the places I worked (including KLTV). I had great (?) times with the Sarkes-Tarzian, CDL, and RCA TS 40 before going to an all GVG operation.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img height="595" width="1280" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="c64e9ff4-14df-4f09-b8af-85df0304d64f" src="cid:2178060D-0B9A-4384-A28E-7910CD301D82"></div><div>The above shot is of a Vital model VIX-114 "A" Series.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>David Crosthwait</div><div>2" quad transfers, and much more.</div><div>DC Video</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 26, 2011, at 8:29 AM, <a href="mailto:W4wj@aol.com">W4wj@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><font size="4">We had a 3M/E Vital Switcher and a Vital Router and Vital
Video DA's at </font><font size="4">WTVJ... circa 1973...
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<div><font size="4">Straight out of Gainesville!! ;-)</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">I visited the factory... Interesting
place!!</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Don Murray W4WJ</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Retired from 40 years of Miami TV Engineering</font></div>
<div><font size="4">35+ years at WTVJ NBC O&O</font></div>
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<div>In a message dated 2/25/2011 8:30:49 P.M. Central Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:DennyD1@verizon.net">DennyD1@verizon.net</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"><br> On Feb 25, 2011, at 9:06 AM, David
Crosthwait wrote:<br><br>> Vital filled a niche in switcher needs when GVG
and others were too <br>costly. The Squeeze Zoom was revolutionary,
being used in many a music <br>video in the early era of MTV style
effects.<br><br> I offer:<br><br> A
station I worked at, WIS-TV in Columbia, SC had a Vital switcher
<br>(one of Vital's first) in 1975:<br>
<<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/557719816/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/557719816/</a>><br><br>
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