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Former names

New Age Video, Inc. (1985-1990)

List of Customers

Aztlan Media (some copies of Dos Camionetas Blindadas)
Best Film and Video Corp. (some tapes)
Brass Eagle, Inc. (some tapes)
The Bridgestone Group (????-????)
- Agapeland Home Video (????-????)
Fisher Price Video (some Little People tapes)
Front Row Entertainment (some tapes)
Goldstar Video (1992) (some copies of The Berenstain Bears First Time Videos, Sesame Street Start-to-Read Videos and Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Videos)
Goodtimes Home Video (some copies of Six Hours of Spurs and Saddles)
GRB Entertainment (some copies of War Dogs: America's Forgotten Heroes)
Image Entertainment (some tapes)
Madacy Video (some tapes)
- Madacy Kids
Manhattan Entertainment (some tapes)
Marshmallow Marketing Video Corporation (some tapes)
New Age Video, Inc./Alpha Video Distributors, Inc. (1985-present)
- The Chipmunk Library (1987-1989)
PolyGram Video (1990s)
Raven Video (some copies of Scream the Wolf)
Shadow Entertainment (some copies of Birthrite)
UAV/AVON (some copies of Where the Red Fern Grows made by Vestron Video)
Vision Factory (some copies of Embalmer)

How to Tell

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 sound. However, 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

South Plainfield, New Jersey

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 * Fisher Price Video (some Little People tapes)
 * Front Row Entertainment (some tapes)
-* Goldstar Video (1992) (only some tapes under the Random House Home Video label)
+* Goldstar Video (1992) (some copies of ''The Berenstain Bears First Time Videos'', ''Sesame Street Start-to-Read Videos'' and ''Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Videos'')
 * Goodtimes Home Video (some copies of Six Hours of Spurs and Saddles)
 * GRB Entertainment (some copies of War Dogs: America's Forgotten Heroes)
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 * 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 sound. However, some tapes under the Chipmunk Library label were duplicated in SP mode, and certain tapes after 1993 did indeed use hi-fi sound.
+* Most tapes from this duplicator were duplicated in EP/SLP mode and lack hi-fi sound. However, 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, tapes from this duplicator had a few extra seconds of black 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.
-* Certain tapes after 1993 from this duplicator have the static roll at the end.
+* Several tapes after 1993 have the static roll of death at the end.
 * Several tapes have the record tab intact.
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 [[Category:Duplicators]]
 [[Category:Duplicators from New Jersey]]
+[[Category:Otari TMD customers]]
+[[Category:Sony Sprinter customers]]