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==Fun Facts== |
==Fun Facts== |
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* Astral Media sold its video duplication and distribution arm to Technicolor Video Services in 2000; however, the sale did not include the Astral Home Entertainment video wholesaling and marketing division. |
* Astral Media sold its video duplication and distribution arm to Technicolor Video Services in 2000; however, the sale did not include the Astral Home Entertainment video wholesaling and marketing division. |
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== Gallery == |
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=== Pathé Video === |
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File:Pathé Sticker on Tape Guard (3 Different Copies of Sleeping Beauty, 1986 Disney).jpg|Prior to 1995, AstralTech used stickers on the top of the tape guard, with SKU numbers and a red ink side label number on them. |
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File:Sticker on Tape Guard (Pathé) (The Exorcist, 1981 Warner).jpg|In the early 1980s, Pathé Video used the distributor's name on the sticker. |
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File:Sticker on Tape Guard (Pathé) (Charlotte's Web, 1980's Astral).jpg|If the name did not indicate the distributor, it would always be PATHE. |
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File:PATH Interval (Pathé) (Dumbo, 1986 Disney).jpg|An example of what the code on the vertical-blanking interval used on tapes duplicated by Pathé looks like. |
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=== AstralTech === |
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File:AstralTech Ink Label (The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1994 Disney).jpg|In the fall of 1994, AstralTech used the ink print date method slightly similar to the Technicolor-esque kind. |
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File:AstralTech Ink Label (Cinderella, 1995 Disney).jpg|From 1995 to 1996, AstralTech used an ink printing slightly different from the Technicolor-esque kind. One exception was that the printing included a cartridge number as opposed to a print date. |
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=== Technicolor Canada === |
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File:Ink Label (Technicolor Canada) (Castle in the Sky, 2003 Disney).jpg|Following Technicolor's acquisition of AstralTech in 2000, this is what the ink printing looked like from that point on. |
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==Locations== |
==Locations== |
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