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* WCI Home Video/Warner Home Video
* 3M
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* Time-Life Video
* WCI Home Video
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* Warner Home Video (1987-2007)
* MGM Home Entertainment (1987-2007)
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* Tapes manufactured after 2001 have "TTGNIC" moulded on the back of the cassette, usually next to the supply reel.
* Tapes manufactured prior to 1990 would have the safety notice on the tape guard engraved in white, while tapes manufactured after would have it moulded in a cheesier font.
==Fujifilm==
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** Touchstone Home Video
** Walt Disney Home Video
===How to tell===
* Tapes manufactured prior to 1990 may have the Fuji name on the tape guard.
* During the 1990s, some tapes had dark ink code information, including the day-year code
** For example, if the code reads "8 200 91 1311", then that means that the side of the tape is labeled 8 and that the tape was manufactured on the 200th day of 1991, or July 19, 1991, at 01:11 PM.
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* Magnetic Video Corporation
* Media Home Entertainment
===How to tell===
* Very early tapes would have the text, "DON'T TOUCH TAPE INSIDE - KEEP CLOSED", written on the top of the tape guard.
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===Customers===
* Congress Video
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* Active Home Video
* Roadshow Home Video [Australian]
* Video Gems
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**** Troy Gold (1987-1989)
** Starmaker Entertainment
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** Allied Artists Video
* Sony Music Entertainment (1991-2003)
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* Some 1987-1998 tapes have “Made in U.S.A.” or "MADE IN U.S.A." moulded on the back right of the cassette.
* Some 1987-2003 tapes have dark ink code information, including the day-year code.
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File:Dark Ink Label (Technicolor) (Poltergeist III, 1989 MGM).jpg|This is an example of what the dark ink code on a Memorex tape looks like. In this picture, the code reads "8 003 89 2130", which means the side of the tape is labeled 8 and the tape was manufactured on the 3rd day of 1989 (January 3, 1989) at 09:30 PM.
File:Dark Ink Code (Memorex) (Mutator, 1991 Prism).jpg|This is another example of what the dark ink code on a Memorex tape looks like. This time, the code reads "2 332 90 0313", which means the side of the tape is labeled 2 and the tape was manufactured on the 332nd day of 1990 (November 28, 1990) at 03:13 AM.
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* Family Home Entertainment
* RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
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** Walt Disney Home Video
** Touchstone Home Video
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** Walt Disney Home Video
* Warner Home Video
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** Walt Disney Home Video
* WCI Home Video/Warner Home Video
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* The TDK logo can be found above the record tab.
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File:Record Tab (TDK) (The Three Caballeros, 1985 Disney).jpg
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===Customers===
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==Notes==
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