User talk:TheVideoLover

Disney's Sing-Along Songs: You Can Fly! (1988)

1. How many VHS copies of this DSAS episode do you own?
2. What do the printing(s) on your copy(s) read, including the print/pressing date(s)?
3. Do your copy(s) have the original 1988 Betamax-style sticker label, the 1990 vertical sticker label, the 1992 horizontal silkscreen-inked label and/or the 1994 horizontal silkscreen-inked label?
4. Which one of your copies did you take the "TVC 5" VBI from?

69.85.235.224 17:13, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

1. Just this one.
2. I didn't see any printings.
3. Sticker label
4. My only copy.

--TheVideoLover (talk) 00:28, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Was it the vertical label or the Betamax square/horizontal label? And did it have a barcode sticker on the left side of the tape?

I'm also assuming the printing was originally there but it must've been faded at some point over the years. 69.85.235.224 11:42, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Was your copy packaged in the original 1988 cover (662-1), the late 1988 revised cover (662-2), the 1989 revised cover (with the ISBN code) or the 1990 cover? 69.85.235.224 12:00, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

I don't quite remember, to be completely honest with you. --TheVideoLover (talk) 02:25, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Paramount Home Video Seal Stickers

What was the earliest known use of the white seal sticker with the blue Paramount logo (with the byline "A VIACOM COMPANY")? That seal sticker started to be used in mid-1998.

Prior to mid-1998, PHV seal stickers were either silver (in the U.S.) or gold (in Canada).

69.85.235.45 19:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't really know, to be completely honest.

Chato's Land

Look more closely. The box may say 1990, and indeed it was released in mid-1990, but the catalog number is also inked right there with the rest of the WCVD markings, which, unless I read them wrong, clearly mark the print date as 112188. I'm not 100% about the situation, but I'm guessing MGM/UA planned a release for early 1989 that ended up being spectacularly delayed, and the box art wasn't created or at least copyrighted until after the actual release date was finalized. --IlCattivo25 (talk) 02:30, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Oh. But there might be more printings under the MGM/UA hologram sticker. --TheVideoLover (talk) 02:32, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

Looks like the printing format's had me had. Turns out, that wasn't the print date. It just goes to show, really, that I need to study the more complex printings on my tapes more often. --IlCattivo25 (talk) 08:48, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

IlCattivo25, I know that this has nothing to do with WCVD or MGM/UA, but your previous assumptions on that tape began to remind me of my previous assumptions on my Technicolor Livonia, MI copy of "The Little Mermaid" (1989) 1990 release from Walt Disney Home Video. The printings on my copy said "T-83-AFT-3190". I previously assumed the 3190 meant my copy was pressed on the 319th day of 1990 (November 15, 1990), but after finding out that Technicolor's Livonia, MI plant had phased out those particular formats of printings in mid-1990 in favor of the style printings similar to those used by the other plant in Newbury Park, CA, I started to realize that my copy was pressed on the 31st day of 1990 (January 31, 1990) instead and they may have forgot to put the 0 in between the dash and the three. 2601:4C4:4000:A8C0:C8A7:F574:636E:7412 19:41, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Duplication Factory and The Lyons Group

Since you left the Lyons Group claim intact on the Duplication Factory page, have you actually found proof on Lyons Group being a DF client? 47.17.104.88 15:48, 9 June 2024 (UTC)