Alpha Home Entertainment (Duplicator)
(Redirected from Alpha Video Distributors, Inc. (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)
List of Customers Edit
- New Age Video, Inc./Alpha Video Distributors, Inc./Alpha Home Entertainment (1985-present)
- The Chipmunk Library (1987-1989)
- Random House Home Video (1991-1992) (tapes sold through Goldstar Video)
How to Tell Edit
- 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 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 following the blank space at the very end.
- From 1991-1993, several tapes from this duplicator had a few extra seconds of black screen 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.
Locations Edit
- South Plainfield, New Jersey