Unknown duplicators

The following is a list of unknown duplicators. Once a duplicator in this list is identified, it should be removed from the list and a page should be created for it.

List of Known Customers

 * First Look Home Entertainment (2003-2005)
 * Funimation Entertainment (2001-2004)
 * Gym-Mark/The Gymboree Corporation (2001)
 * Maverick Entertainment (2002)
 * Showtime Entertainment (2001-2004)
 * Sundance Channel Home Entertainment (2002-2004)
 * The Gold Label (2003)
 * The Professional Education Institute (2002)
 * Two Left Shoes (2002) (some copies of Lush)

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had printings like the following examples (more will be posted as more variants of how the printings were laid out are discovered):

Example #1:

TITLE: EVIL BUU (UNCUT) B2450

04/02 T-70

Example #2:

TITLE: VISITOR

10-03 T-96 PASS 001

Example #3:

TITLE: CYBERMUTT

02/04 T-88 192 PASS 001

Example #4:

TITLE: EMPOWERMENT #5

02/02 365 T-80 192 PASS 001

Example #5:

TITLE: SCOTLAND PA

09/02 318 T-104 PASS 001

Example #6:

TITLE: AMY'S O

11/02 T-88

Example #7:

TITLE: BLACKBALL

01/05 T=104

List of Known Customers

 * ADV Films
 * Cabin Fever Entertainment (1990)
 * Cartoon Network (some copies of the promotional "Rainy Day Survival Kit" tape)
 * First Look Pictures (2000-2001)
 * Full Moon Entertainment
 * Madacy Music Group
 * Questar Home Video
 * Scholastic (1998)
 * Strand Home Video
 * The Baby Einstein Company (1998)
 * TLC (1993)
 * Xenon Video

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had blue printings like the following examples:

Example 1:

1X65630S105511 RAINY DAY 44155LR T46

Example 2:

21415435 VHSHH/001D H/4222GEO 51


 * Some tapes from this company had a black screen test pattern with a 400hz tone at the end, while some others had the static roll of death. Some had nothing.

List of Known Customers

 * Price/Stern/Sloan Video (1991-1992)

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had a white number 75 or 80 above the recording tab spot (possibly indicating tape length).
 * There is no other known form of printing on tapes from this duplicator, aside from the number above the recording tab spot.

List of Known Customers

 * Montgomery Ward

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had dark red printings in dark red ink like these for example:

10962138 29572 RUDOLPHS LESSONS

List of Known Customers

 * Columbia TriStar Home Video (1994) (as confirmed by one copy of a Really Wild Animals screening cassette)

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had a print date, with the printings being laid out like this for example:

PAL-200          MMM   17:25   04/25/94

T-140

List of Known Customers

 * Frantz Productions (2001)
 * Homespun Video
 * Kino Video
 * Proscenium Entertainment
 * Raven Releasing

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had white or dark printings, which were laid out like the following examples:

Example 1:

T-90        YAXYY     T

Example 2:

T-75        IAXYE     F-3

Example 3:

T-160        AYLMYL     F-2

Example 4:

T-93 MLOYA 1

List of Known Customers

 * Disney Institute (1997)

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had printings, which were laid out like this for example:

4457-5   IP

List of Known Customers

 * Hometime

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had a print date, and the printings looked like this for example:

HTC-UNDERGROUND 106243.11 2ND 4/23/01

List of Known Customers

 * TBD, but it was the distributor of First Fun with French in North America

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had printings, which were laid out like this for example:

PT-45 EMT/HG 306 A102 0627 P.B.

List of Known Customers

 * Teaching Tolerance (2005)

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had a print date, with the printings being laid out like this for example:

0905 T-40 2453

092205 13:34 3M AIM

List of Known Customers

 * Family Home Entertainment (1990) (some copies of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tapes from Burger King)

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had printings, which were laid out like this for example:

TMD-EP     15833    27842          12490

21A2 APRIL FOOLISH W/COMMERCIAL    22:15


 * Some tapes from this duplicator also had a few extra seconds of black screen after the blank space at the tail end.
 * As indicated by the aforementioned printings, this duplicator used thermal magnetic duplication systems from Otari.

Possible Candidates

 * Centercom Inc.
 * Future Duplicators
 * Producers Color Service Inc.
 * Video Duplication Services Inc.

List of Known Customers

 * Marathon Music & Video

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had printings, which were laid out like this for example:

40 99

List of Known Customers

 * TLC (some copies of Teacher TV: Technology in the Classroom)

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had sticker with information and a print date on it, like this for example:

026959 107929

TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM

    2 12/01/93

List of Known Customers

 * The Lyons Group (1992)
 * Made-to-Order Productions (1990)
 * Monarch Home Video (1991)

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had dark printings above the recording tab spot, like these two examples:

Example 1:

11-227-120-M

Example 2:

23-76-T30-M

Possible Candidates

 * Allied Digital

List of Known Customers

 * Home Vision Entertainment (1993)

How to Tell

 * Tapes from this duplicator had dark printings above the recording tab spot, in the day-year-tape length format, such as:

332-3-T60

Possible Candidates

 * Allied Digital
 * American Sound & Video
 * Digital Excellence Inc.
 * Opryland Duplicating Services
 * Producers Color Service Inc.
 * Sifford Media
 * Vaughn Communications Inc.
 * WRS Motion Picture & Video Laboratories

Vertical Blanking Interval Tags from Other Unknown Duplicators
NOTE: Do NOT move any of these tags, even those where a duplicator has been possibly identified, until you can obtain concrete confirmation from other sources such as the individuals who originally captured the VBIs, via good pictures of the cassette proper at the relevant view or another method.