Mirror Image Duplication Services
Appearance

This company was an affiliate of UAV Corporation/Sterling Entertainment Group.
History
[edit]TBD
List of Customers
[edit]- Columbia TriStar Home Video (1992) (double feature screener tape of Dead Space/The Berlin Conspiracy)
- DiC Home Entertainment (2003-2006) (tapes distributed by Sterling Entertainment Group)
- INSP Music & Publishing (2001-2002)
- Live Home Video (1994) (tapes distributed by UAV Corporation)
- Family Home Entertainment (some copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tapes sold through the Burger King Kids Club)
- Vestron Video (1994) (tapes distributed by UAV Corporation)
- Long Horn Productions (tapes distributed by UAV Corporation)
- MTM Home Video (tapes distributed by UAV Corporation)
- Panda Video
- UAV Corporation/Allumination Filmworks (1984-2006)
- Sterling Entertainment Group (1992-2006)
- Hep Cat Entertainment (1989-1995)
- Mirror Image Videocassette
- Ovation Home Video
- Gemstone Entertainment
- VidAmerica, Inc. (1992)
- Rhino Home Video (2006)
- Tai Seng Video Marketing (2001)
- Television Innovation Co. (1993) (one known copy of "Mommy I Can: Dance")
How to Tell
[edit]- Most tapes from this duplicator do not have any form of printing on the cassette.
- Numerous tapes from this duplicator have a record tab intact.
- The picture quality of some tapes duplicated by this company can be kind of horrible.
- Numerous SP mode or EP/SLP mode tapes from this duplicator also had a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the end. While the "fading rainbow" is usually too far at the beginning or end to be played back on a normal VCR, it has a rumbling sound during the first few seconds of the tape in the linear track. However, some tapes with this credential had the "fading rainbow" at the beginning of the tape, and LP mode tapes usually did not have anything following the blank space at all.
- Several tapes from the late 1990s/early 2000s have the static roll of death at the end.
- Tapes from this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
- Many tapes printed here, especially those by UAV/Sterling, have the face label either noticeably faded and/or printed off-center.
- Some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tapes sold through the Burger King Kids Club said "U" (for parent company UAV Corporation) on the face label.
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[edit]Trivia
[edit]- Some tapes duplicated here, particularly on Otari TMD equipment, tend to wear out very quickly, likely due to how cheaply they may have been made, even if there's nothing wrong with the cassette shell of the tape or the playback machine.[1] As a consequence, it is generally recommended that:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video collectors not purchase Burger King tapes duplicated here; the general consensus is to get tapes duplicated at either High Speed Video or West Coast Video Duplicating instead.
- Sony Music Entertainment children's video (e.g. Mega Man and Lassie) collectors not purchase Sterling Entertainment Group tapes sub-licensed from that company, if duplicated here; the general consensus is to get the actual Sony Music Entertainment tapes instead.
- DIC Entertainment video collectors not purchase Sterling Entertainment Group tapes duplicated here; the general consensus is to get either Sterling Entertainment Group tapes duplicated at Deluxe Media Services or tapes from other DIC Entertainment licensees (e.g. Golden Books Family Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Lions Gate Home Entertainment; the former which was ironically, in later years, primarily distributed by the Sony Wonder subdivision of Sony Music Entertainment) instead.
- This company was one of few prerecorded media duplicators that even offered stocks of blank tapes.
Locations
[edit]- Nashville, Tennessee (1984-1987) (moved to Charlotte)
- Charlotte, North Carolina (1987-1996) (moved to Fort Mill)
- Fort Mill, South Carolina (1996-2006)
Websites
[edit]- uavco.com/mirimg (via the WayBack Machine)
- discquick.com (via the WayBack Machine)