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* Anime Village
* Central Park Media
* Columbia House Video (1987-
* Columbia Tristar Home Video (1990-1996) (screener copies)
* HIT Entertainment (2001-2002) (''Bob the Builder'' and ''Kipper'' tapes)
** Lyrick Studios (1993-1995, 2001) (in 2001, only for ''Bob the Builder'' and ''Kipper'' tapes)
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* Live Entertainment (some copies of ''Paula Abdul: Get Up and Dance'' and ''The Substitute'')
* MCA Music Video
* MGM Home Entertainment (1990-2004)
** Orion Home Video (
** Fries Home Video (1987-1989)
* MPI Home Video (1991-????)
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* Prism Entertainment
* Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment
* Simon Marketing (1991-1992) (''The Berenstain Bears''
* SyberVision
* Video Treasures (1994)
** Strand Home Video (1992-1994)
** Media Home Entertainment (
* Vidmark Entertainment
* Viz Video
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*** Hanna-Barbera Home Video (1992)
** New Line Home Video (1991-1997)
==How to Tell==
* By around 1989, VHS tapes duplicated by West Coast Video Duplicating (later MediaCopy, Inc.) have visible ink information on the bottom middle side of the tape that is printed in a couple of different colors, but sometimes the color of the printings is invisible, like dark purple, for example.
** The information on the tape includes the print date and time on the right. Next to the print date and time are letters that say "WCV" (1989-1991), "WCVD" (1991-1996) or MCI (post-1996). This was usually followed by a catalog number and, optionally, the tape speed's initialism. On tapes with a different color cassette, the color and style of the printing varied.
*** For example, if the print date/time is numbered "020795 1358", then that means the specific VHS tape was printed on February 7, 1995 at 1:58 PM.
*** On tapes distributed in Canada by Orion Home Video through J.L. Bowerbank & Associates, the letters would say "JLB".
* On tapes distributed by Fries Home Video prior to 1989, the front tape label would say "WCV" (1988-1989) or "WCVD" (1989) on the bottom right.
* In addition, tapes duplicated at this company also have two different length codes on the left of the information: on pre-1996 tapes, the nominal length is above the record tab (usually broken off), while on post-1996 tapes, it is on the bottom label portion.
* After 1996, tapes duplicated at MediaCopy, Inc. would have an engraving on the left side that indicates the company that distributed it.
* Tapes from this duplicator, that say "TMDEP" or "TMDSP" in the printings, had a few additional seconds of black screen
* EP/SLP (TMDEP) tapes from this duplicator usually lack hi-fi sound.
▲* Tapes from this duplicator, that say "TMDEP" or "TMDSP" in the printings, had a few additional seconds of black screen (sometimes followed by the fading rainbow) following the static at the very end. As indicated by the aforementioned printings, they were duplicated using thermal magnetic duplication systems from Otari.
* Some tapes with the tape speed’s initialism (e.g. T-120) in the printings, end abruptly.
==Known abbreviation letter codes==
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* MGM - post-1999 tapes released under the MGM Home Entertainment label
* WHV - 1997 tapes released under the respective subsidiaries of Warner Home Video
* OHV - tapes released by Orion Home Video
==Known
* WCVD - tapes printed between 1990 and 1996
* MCI - tapes printed between 1996 and
* INFO - tapes printed after
* JLB - tapes released by J.L. Bowerbank & Associates in Canada
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===West Coast Video Duplicating===
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File:West Coast Video Duplicating, Inc..jpg
File:Dark Ink Label (West Coast Video Duplicating) (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, 1993 MGM).jpg|An example of what the dark ink printing looks like from 1991 to 1996.
File:Dark Ink Label (West Coast Video Duplicating) (Tales of Terror, 1994 Orion).jpg|Same example as picture #
File:Barney Live! in New York City.jpg
File:FX2 (1994 Orion Home Video) (100694).jpg|While most tapes by West Coast Video Duplicating didn't usually have anything in the vertical blanking interval, a few Orion Home Video tapes in EP/SLP mode had information like this in the vertical blanking interval.
</gallery>
===MediaCopy, Inc.===
<gallery>
File:MediaCopy.
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File:Friends (021397).jpg
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==Locations==
* Brisbane, California (1987-1995) (moved to San Leandro)
* Culver City, California (
* El Paso, Texas (1998-2004)
* Juarez, Chihuahua (1998-2004)
* San Leandro, California (1995-
==Trivia==
* Some tapes with the company's WC initialism on the printing on the tape spine, specifically Strand Home Video tapes pressed in late 1994, were instead duplicated at [[Technicolor Video Services]], possibly as a result of Video Treasures being Strand Home Video's distributor in the US at the time.
[[Category:Duplicators]]
[[Category:Anime duplicators]]
[[Category:Duplicators from California]]
[[Category:Infodisc subsidiaries]]
[[Category:Macrovision customers]]
[[Category:Otari TMD customers]]
[[Category:Duplicators founded in 1987]]
[[Category:Duplicators closed in 2005]]
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