<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Jan 6, 2013, at 12:15 AM, David Crosthwait wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><NBC VTR RIP.jpeg></div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I say:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It outlived NBC-NY's tape room by about 8 years. We had an area on the 2nd floor called "PVT" ("Production Video Tape", NBC LOVES acronyms). There must have been 50 or 60 Beta and MII VTRs (all kinds) in several long rooms in that area along with 5 linear edit rooms. When I first returned to NBC in 2003, that's where I worked.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Here are two of the PVT rooms, photos shot in 2005:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/531923457/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/531923457/</a>></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/531822760/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/531822760/</a>></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>And my old linear edit room, Edit 3:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/531924273/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/531924273/</a>></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The VTR machines behind the operator's console:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/656498026/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/656498026/</a>></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The edit rooms are now reconfigured as HD 'release' studio control rooms.</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank</div><div><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</div><br></div></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>