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(The earliest The Lyons Group tape I detected that was duplicated by Allied Film & Video was my two original 1991 copies of Rock with Barney. We may need a bit more information from a reliable source on who duplicated Barney tapes from 1988 to early 1991.) |
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==How to Tell for Home Media Releases==
* Most tapes duplicated at Allied Digital have a numeric code on the vertical-blanking interval of the video signal at the beginning and end of it, akin to how tapes duplicated at Technicolor using Sony Sprinters begin and/or end. On tapes from 1992 to 1995, the vertical blanking interval has a date in the code, and begins with either "AFV TN," "AFV," "AFVTN", "AAFVTN" or "@FVTN". Starting around mid-late 1995, this same code started with "ADT." In late 1995, the code became similar in terms of the typeface to the ones that appear on tapes duplicated at Technicolor's Livonia plant using Sony Sprinters, and was changed to a different code like this for example: "ADT8011161:07," with the code instead beginning with "ADT04" on tapes from clients inherited from HMG beginning in mid-1998. However, on tapes encoded with Macrovision, the Macrovision signal usually blocks all but the top of the code.
* Several tapes use oversized reels, while some use regular reels.
* Early '90s tapes from this duplicator had dark printings above the recording tab spot, like these three examples:
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