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==How to Tell==
==How to Tell==
* Early tapes duplicated by this company from 1978-1984 utilize the color bar test pattern with similar high-pitch looping beep-tones.
* Early tapes duplicated by this company from 1978-1984, as well as later tapes from early 1987 utilize the color bar test pattern with similar high-pitch looping beep-tones.
** Early 1978-1984 tapes had a shorter length version of the color bar test pattern.
** 1987 tapes had a slightly longer length version of the color bar test pattern.

Revision as of 18:55, 15 March 2022

List of Customers

  • Media Home Entertainment (1978-1987)
  • The Nostalgia Merchant (1978-1987)
  • VCI Home Video (1984)
  • VCL Communications (1984-1985)
  • Wizard Video (1980-1982)
  • Viking Video Classics (1987)

How to Tell

  • Early tapes duplicated by this company from 1978-1984, as well as later tapes from early 1987 utilize the color bar test pattern with similar high-pitch looping beep-tones.
    • Early 1978-1984 tapes had a shorter length version of the color bar test pattern.
    • 1987 tapes had a slightly longer length version of the color bar test pattern.