Alpha Home Entertainment (Duplicator)

This page is about the duplication unit of the distributor. For the distributor itself, click here.

Former names edit

Alpha Video Distributors, Inc. (1990-20??)
- Alpha Video (shorthand form) (199?-present)
New Age Video, Inc. (1985-1990)

New Age Video, Inc./Alpha Video Distributors, Inc./Alpha Home Entertainment (1985-present)
- The Chipmunk Library (1987-1992)
Random House Home Video (1991-1992) (tapes sold through Goldstar Video)
Saturn Productions (one known copy of Rivals of the Dragon)

Not a single tape from this duplicator has any form of printing on the cassette, nor anything in the vertical blanking interval.
Several tapes use oversized reels, while some of them use regular reels.
Most tapes from this duplicator were duplicated in EP/SLP mode and lack hi-fi audio, though some tapes, namely those released by Alpha under the Chipmunk Library label, were duplicated in SP mode, and certain tapes after 1993 did use hi-fi audio.
Numerous pre-1990 tapes have a silent red screen along with the "fading rainbow" following the blank space at the very end.
From 1991-1993, several tapes from this duplicator had a few extra seconds of black screen along with the "fading rainbow" following the blank space at the very end.
Several tapes after 1993 have the static roll of death at the end.
Several tapes have the record tab intact.