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This company was an affiliate of UAV Corporation/Sterling Entertainment Group.
==History==
== List of Customers ==
* DiC Home Entertainment (2003-2005) (tapes distributed by Sterling Entertainment Group)
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** Family Home Entertainment (
▲** Family Home Entertainment (seen on some copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tapes from the Burger King Kids' Club)
▲** Vestron Video (1991-1992) (tapes distributed by UAV Corporation)
* Panda Video
* Sterling Entertainment Group (1992-2006)
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*** Hep Cat Entertainment (1989-1995)
*** Mirror Image Videocassette
**** [[Video Gems (distributor)|Video Gems]]
** Ovation Home Video
** Gemstone Entertainment
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** Allumination Filmworks (2006)
* Tai Seng Video Marketing (2001)
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== How to Tell ==
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* Numerous tapes from this duplicator have a record tab intact.
* The picture quality of most tapes duplicated by this company is horrible.
* Numerous tapes from this duplicator also had a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the end. While the "fading rainbow" does not usually appear at the end, 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.
* 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.
== Logos ==
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File:Mirror Image Duplication Services (1999).jpg
File:Mirror logo.jpg
</gallery>
== Locations ==
* Nashville, Tennessee (1984-1989) (moved to Charlotte)
* Charlotte, North Carolina (1989-1996) (moved to Fort Mill)
* Fort Mill, South Carolina (1996-2006)
== Website ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://www.uavco.com/mirimg uavco.com/mirimg] (via the WayBack Machine)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://www.discquick.com discquick.com] (via the WayBack Machine)
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This company was an affiliate of UAV Corporation/Sterling Entertainment Group.
History[edit]
List of Customers[edit]
- DiC Home Entertainment (2003-2005) (tapes distributed by Sterling Entertainment Group)
- 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)
- Panda Video
- Sterling Entertainment Group (1992-2006)
- UAV Corporation (1984-1998)
- Hep Cat Entertainment (1989-1995)
- Mirror Image Videocassette
- Ovation Home Video
- Gemstone Entertainment
- MTM Home Video
- VidAmerica, Inc. (1992)
- Allumination Filmworks (2006)
- UAV Corporation (1984-1998)
- Tai Seng Video Marketing (2001)
- Rhino Home Video (2006)
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 most tapes duplicated by this company is horrible.
- Numerous tapes from this duplicator also had a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the end. While the "fading rainbow" does not usually appear at the end, 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.
- 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.
Logos[edit]
Locations[edit]
- Nashville, Tennessee (1984-1989) (moved to Charlotte)
- Charlotte, North Carolina (1989-1996) (moved to Fort Mill)
- Fort Mill, South Carolina (1996-2006)
Website[edit]
- uavco.com/mirimg (via the WayBack Machine)
- discquick.com (via the WayBack Machine)