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History[edit]

FPVS started out as a subsidiary of Peoria-based printing services outfit Fleming-Potter. In 1991, it was bought out by Steven L. Whetzel and Charles J. Selden with backing from the Indiana National Bank. Since then, it's provided duplication and other video services for the Public Broadcasting Service and associated institutions, among other organizations.

Former names[edit]

Fleming Packaging Company (1982-1991)
fp Video Services Inc. (1991-1993)

List of Customers[edit]

Caterpillar
Critic's Choice Video
Discovery Channel Video
Dreams Come True Productions (1998)
Eli Lilly and Company
Front Gate
Gardener's Supply
Griot's Gardens
Hammacher-Schlem
Horchow
J. Peterman
Johnston and Murphy
Major League Baseball Home Video
MotorWeek Home Video
The New York Times
PBS Home Video (tapes distributed directly by PBS)
PBS Video
Peruvian Connection
Plow and Hearth
Sesame Workshop (some Sesame Street resource tapes)
Signals
Smith and Hawken
UNICEF
Whatever Works
Williams-Sonoma
Winterhur
Wireless

How to Tell[edit]

Tapes will have in dark red printing the tape length over the recording tab, and on the spine itself a four-digit number, possibly indicating the time, followed by a six-digit date code. FP[V]S is printed below. Take a look at the following example:

0225 090401

FPVS

Early '90s tapes simply had the tape length in white over the recording tab, sometimes followed by an F or M.
Later tapes had a silent white screen test pattern at the end after several seconds of black screen.
Tapes by this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.

Gallery[edit]

An example of how the printings were formatted on tapes by this duplicator.
An example of an early printing by this duplicator.

Locations[edit]

Bronxville, New York
Indianapolis, Indiana
Montclair, New Jersey

Website[edit]

fpvid.com (via the WayBack Machine)

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 == History ==
 FPVS started out as a subsidiary of Peoria-based printing services outfit Fleming-Potter. In 1991, it was bought out by Steven L. Whetzel and Charles J. Selden with backing from the Indiana National Bank. Since then, it's provided duplication and other video services for the Public Broadcasting Service and associated institutions, among other organizations.
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 == Former names ==
 * Fleming Packaging Company (1982-1991)
-* FP Video Services Inc. (1991-1993)
+* fp Video Services Inc. (1991-1993)
 == List of Customers ==
 * Caterpillar
+* Critic's Choice Video
 * Discovery Channel Video
+* Dreams Come True Productions (1998)
 * Eli Lilly and Company
+* Front Gate
+* Gardener's Supply
+* Griot's Gardens
+* Hammacher-Schlem
+* Horchow
+* J. Peterman
+* Johnston and Murphy
 * Major League Baseball Home Video
 * MotorWeek Home Video
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 * PBS Home Video (tapes distributed directly by PBS)
 * PBS Video
+* Peruvian Connection
+* Plow and Hearth
 * Sesame Workshop (some Sesame Street resource tapes)
+* Signals
+* Smith and Hawken
+* UNICEF
+* Whatever Works
+* Williams-Sonoma
+* Winterhur
+* Wireless
 == How to Tell ==
-* Tapes will have in dark red printing the tape length over the recording tab, and on the spine itself a four-digit number, possibly indicating the time, followed by a six-digit date code. FPVS is printed below. Take a look at the following example:
+* Tapes will have in dark red printing the tape length over the recording tab, and on the spine itself a four-digit number, possibly indicating the time, followed by a six-digit date code. FP[V]S is printed below. Take a look at the following example:
 '''0225  090401'''
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 '''FPVS'''
-* Early '90s tapes simply had the tape length in white over the recording tab, sometimes followed by an F.
+* Early '90s tapes simply had the tape length in white over the recording tab, sometimes followed by an F or M.
+* Later tapes had a silent white screen test pattern at the end after several seconds of black screen.
-* Until 1995, the tape length was displayed with or without the hyphen between the T and the length. By 1995, the hyphen was a permanent fixture.
+* Tapes by this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+File:Fp Video Services, Inc..jpg
+File:The American Experience - The Meltdown at Three Mile Island (1999 PBS Home Video and Warner Home Video).jpg|An example of how the printings were formatted on tapes by this duplicator.
+File:T90M (Fit or Fat for the 90's, 1991 PBS Home Video).jpg|An example of an early printing by this duplicator.
+</gallery>
 == Locations ==
+* Bronxville, New York
 * Indianapolis, Indiana
 * Montclair, New Jersey
+== Website ==
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/19970801000000*/fpvid.com fpvid.com] (via the WayBack Machine)
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 [[Category:Duplicators from Indiana]]
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