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:[[Special:Contributions/47.17.104.88|47.17.104.88]], Rankin/Bass' "The Little Drummer Boy" was also released on VHS by 21st Genesis Home Video's Happy Face Home Video division, also in 1988, which AFAIK, the Happy Face/21st Genesis release was unauthorized. The print used for the special itself on the Happy Face/21st Genesis release had the jingle for the 1966-1975 NBC Television Network bumper playedplaying over the Rankin/Bass logo at the end (Apparently, the same error also occurred on lots of older broadcasts of the special, especially early '90s broadcasts that used a then-recent syndication print from Viacom). And for the record, Broadway Video held the copyrights to the pre-1974 Tomorrow Entertainment library, including the pre-1974 Rankin/Bass library, at the time (Rankin/Bass was a division of Tomorrow Entertainment from 1971 to 1974; at the time, Tomorrow Entertainment was a subsidiary of General Electric. General Electric kept the rights to the pre-1974 Tomorrow library after Tomorrow was sold to Dancer Fitzgerald Sample and Rankin/Bass was sold back to its namesake founders (Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass). Viacom held the television syndication/distribution rights to both the pre-1974 and post-1974 libraries of Tomorrow Entertainment from the late 1970s to sometime in the mid-1990s). Eventually, Broadway sold its family entertainment division to Golden Books Family Entertainment in 1996.

:The Rankin/Bass logo is silent on the official home entertainment releases of "The Little Drummer Boy". Especially the older 1989-1997 releases from LIVE Home Video's Family Home Entertainment division and the 1998-2006 releases from Sony Wonder (At the time, Sony Wonder was a part of Epic Records, itself one of Sony Music Entertainment's "flagship" music division labels).

I currently own a Sharp VC-H870 VCR and an RCA DRC200N DVD player. The Sharp VC-H870 VCR was manufactured in June 1991 and is a Canadian-distributed model (I bought it from a Canadian seller on eBay even though I live in the US). The RCA DRC200N was manufactured during the 18th week of 2006 (7618T; May 1, 2006-May 7, 2006), according to the sticker on the box and the registration card, and I bought it from a seller on eBay who owns a pawn shop (the previous owner, who is likely the person that the seller bought it from (unless the seller was the previous owner which I kinda doubt), bought it from a Best Buy, according to the information sticker on the box). For some reason, the manufacture date sticker is not on the unit itself. I also own a Sony DVP-SR210P that was manufactured in November 2018, which I bought it from Walmart through their website in April 2019, but it's stored away right now.

So how did you know that Hauppauge Video Manufacturing was a Macrovision customer? Have you checked one or more of your HVM-duplicated tapes to see if there was a Macrovision signal? Also, how many rectangles were there on the vertical interval at the start of the tape?