The CBS/Fox Company (Duplicator): Difference between revisions

** 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 time after CBS/Fox switched over to RVSA in late March 1990, the printings became similar to those of Technicolor's California plants.

*** 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.