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*** 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
* 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 couple of months later but would not start duplicating their product there until that August.
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