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* 1984-1987 tapes duplicated at CBS/Fox would have engraving on the right side of the tape that says "CBS FOX" and printings on the bottom middle side, including a day-year code that is read in either Day/Y0, Day/Y or Day/YY.
** For example, if the day-year code reads "16550", that means the tape was printed on the 165th day of 1985.
** Invisible dark ink printings and white barcode stickers on the side of the tape began in 1986, with the code switched over from "DayY0" to "DayY." VCA/Technicolor continued these printing methods during the next three years, following its acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility and name change to Technicolor Videocassette in 1987, and added Sony Sprinter systems to the plant.
*** Some tapes duplicated using Sony Sprinter systems would have a barcode sticker on the bottom side of the tape with the distributor initialism and catalog number, followed by either a generic initialism or the tape speed initialism.
*** Sometimes, from 1989-1990, the code would read something like "18789." On some tapes, the code is kind of visible.
**** However on some tapes printed in early 1990, the code would just read something like either "3190" or "3390" instead.
*** In addition to the above mentioned printings, tapes duplicated using Otari TMD systems would have a code on the left (prior to 1986) or the right (after 1986) of the vertical-blanking interval that begins with "MV-GARD" (pre-1978), "MAG" (1978-1980), "MAGVID" (1980-1982), "FOXVID" (1982-1984), "CBSFOX" (1984-1986) or "CFV" (1986-1987). VCA/Technicolor continued this code method, rather beginning with "TVC," for the next decade, following its acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility and name change to Technicolor Videocassette in 1987 and Technicolor Video Services in 1993.
* Most tapes printed after late January 1990, more than two years after Technicolor's acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility, would have an engraving on the left or right side that indicates the company that distributed it, identical to the engraving on either side of tapes duplicated at Technicolor in California. This never applied to tapes released by CBS/Fox, which would switch over to RVSA just a
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