Talk:Paramount Home Entertainment

I own seven VHS releases from Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly known as Paramount Home Video). They are:

- the 1996 VHS release of "Top Gun" (1986). My copy had a strip label on the cassette spine, but I peeled it off to get to the number that's printed in dark ink (said number says 59). Printed/pressed during the 36th week of 1996 (PAR 636).

- the 1997 VHS release of "Rugrats: Return of Reptar" (released under the Nickelodeon Video line). Cassette shell and tape guard are Nickelodeon-style orange, but the release button is black. My copy had a strip label on the cassette spine, but I peeled it off because I thought there was something underneath the label (as it turns out, there wasn't). The dark ink number is on the left side of the cassette shell rather than the cassette spine and says 19. Printed/pressed presumably on April 15, 1997 (0415; the last four digits of the barcode sticker on the tape guard), during the 16th week of that year (PAR 716); duplicated in EP/SLP mode. White screen test pattern with 1000hz sine-wave tone at the end, which cuts to a fullscreen static screen, which then cuts to a short black screen with the "pull-my-finger" blare at the very end. I was half-surprised to find out that the short black screen with the blare at the very end of this tape was in SP mode, since the rest of the tape was in EP/SLP.

- the 1997 VHS release of "Rugrats: A Rugrats Vacation" (released under the Nickelodeon Video line). Mine was packaged in the original 1997 cover. Cassette shell and tape guard are Nickelodeon-style orange, but the release button is black. My copy had a strip label on the cassette spine, but I peeled it off to get to the number that's printed in dark ink (said number says 86). Printed/pressed during the 26th week of 1997 (PAR 726); duplicated in EP/SLP mode. White screen test pattern with 1000hz sine-wave tone at the end, which cuts to a fullscreen static screen.

- the 1997 VHS release of "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown" (1992) (released under the Peanuts Home Video line). Mine was still packaged in the 1996 cover. Tape itself uses the 1999 horizontal sticker label on the front of the cassette shell. Dark ink number on the cassette spine says 58. Printed/pressed during the 37th week of 1999 (DLX 937). Strangely, this tape had the 1989 distorted version of the 1987 Paramount Television fanfare played over the 1995 Paramount closing logo at the end.

- the 1998 VHS release of "Rugrats: Dr. Tommy Pickles" (released under the Nickelodeon Video line). My copy is a Canadian-distributed copy (and I don't even live there). Cassette shell and tape guard are Nickelodeon-style orange, but the release button is black. Invisible ink printings on the cassette spine, but they're much smaller than usual and I don't know if there is a print/press date/time in them; none of the numbers in the printings represent YYMMDD0000 (like they usually would). Duplicated in EP/SLP mode. Static roll at the end, which cuts to a fullscreen static screen, which then cuts back to the static roll at the very end. I was half-surprised to find out that this tape uses the videotaped versions of the 1995 Paramount opening and closing logos instead of the standard filmed versions.

- the 1998 VHS release of "Rugrats: Mommy Mania" (released under the Nickelodeon Video line). Cassette shell and tape guard are Nickelodeon-style orange, but the release button is black. Dark ink number on the cassette spine says 88 (I think). Printed/pressed during the 10th week of 1998 (PAR 810); duplicated in EP/SLP mode. White screen test pattern with 1000hz sine-wave tone at the end, which cuts to a fullscreen static screen.

- the 1998 VHS release of "Rugrats: Angelica Knows Best" (released under the Nickelodeon Video line). Cassette shell and tape guard are Nickelodeon-style orange, but the release button is black. Dark ink number on the cassette spine says 81. Printed/pressed during the 4th week of 1999 (PAR 904); duplicated in EP/SLP mode. White screen test pattern with 1000hz sine-wave tone at the end, which cuts to a fullscreen static screen.

69.85.235.47 13:43, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Paramount Home Entertainment

This page should be renamed to Paramount Home Entertainment, since that's the name Paramount Home Media is now known as (as of May 2019). 69.85.235.47 16:01, 6 March 2024 (UTC)