Unknown duplicators

The following is a list of unknown VHS duplicators. Once a duplicator in this list is identified, it should be removed from the list and a page should be created for it.

Duplicator #1

List of Known Customers

• Price/Stern/Sloan Video (1990-1992)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1987)

How to Tell

• Earlier tapes would have printings above the spot where the recording tab would be, like this for example:

T-100

024888-2

Beginning around 1990, this was changed to engraved letters and numbers.

• Some earlier tapes also had a sticker with information on it on the bottom middle side, like this for example:

W.O.#18441W

HOLIDAY

SLAVE #V SP

PASS 3

Around 1990, this was changed to printings on the tape guard. Sometimes, it would appear like this for example:

W.O.8504

SILLYVILLE

PASS 3 SLAYE 976

• Some RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video tapes duplicated by this company had a black screen test pattern with a 1133hz tone at the end.

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  This is an example of what the engravings looked like on most tapes duplicated by this company beginning around 1990.

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  On some tapes, there was only one line of letters and numbers.

List of Known Customers

• New Yorker Video
• Colgate
• AnimEigo (1997)
• Zeitgeist Video (2002)

How to Tell

• Tapes duplicated by this company had dark red printings like this for example:

T-105 21647 CELESTE

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  This is an example of what the printings on tapes duplicated by this company generally looked like.