[QuadList] Quantel DFS3000

[Dennis Degan]

		On Jul 12, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Dave Sieg wrote:

 > It was the first digital frame store / frame synchronizer made in the 
late seventies.

		I say:

	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.
	WSM-TV in Nashville bought an early one right after NBC.  Here's a 
picture of it:
		<http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/558110461/>

			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
	  					NBC Today Show, New York