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* Later tapes had a silent white screen test pattern at the end after several seconds of black screen. |
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* Tapes by this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval. |
* Tapes by this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval. |
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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. |
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== Locations == |
== Locations == |
Revision as of 05:22, 19 April 2024
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.
Former names
- Fleming Packaging Company (1982-1991)
- FP Video Services Inc. (1991-1993)
List of Customers
- Caterpillar
- Critic's Choice Video
- Discovery Channel Video
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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An example of how the printings were formatted on tapes by this duplicator.
Locations
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Montclair, New Jersey
Website
- fpvid.com (via the WayBack Machine)