Progressive Image Technology (PIT) was founded in 1978. In the first time the company developed hardware for personal computers. Since the early eighties, PIT worked in the field of computer video and engineered desktop video products for both IBM and Apple.

PIT is the manufacturer who developed and built most of Digital Creations' hardware (such as DCTV and their genlocks). Since that time, the company had designed many video peripherals including video effects hardware, overlay cards, genlocks, digitizers, and time base correctors.

In mid of 1994, Progressive Image Technology merged with Digital Creations and a group of eight former senior staff members of NewTek (they left that company earlier that year).