Alpha Video Distributors, Inc. (Duplicator)

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List of Customers

  • New Age Video/Alpha Video Distributors (1985-present)
  • The Chipmunk Library (1987-1989)
  • Goldstar Video (1992) (only some tapes under the Random House Home Video label)

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.
  • Numerous tapes from this duplicator are duplicated in EP/SLP mode and lack hi-fi sound.
  • 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.
  • Some tapes have the record tab intact.

Locations

  • South Plainfield, New Jersey
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