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==Known batch and stock number prefix codes==
'''NOTE: Most tapes duplicated after 1988 using Sony Sprinter systems will use prefixes indicating the label and/or distributor.'''
* WHV - 1988-2000 tapes released by Warner Home Video and its respective subsidiaries(1988-2000)
* WB - same as WHV
* NL - tapes released under the New Line Home Entertainment label(1997-200?)
* TW - post-2000 tapes released by Warner Home Video and its respective subsidiaries(2000-2006)
* BVH - select 1988-1990 tapes released by Buena Vista Home Video and its respective subsidiaries, duplicated in California.(1988-1990)
* WDTNT - Buena Vista Home Video (1981-1988)
* WDTNT - pre-1988 tapes released under the respective subsidiaries of Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company
* WDT - same as WDTNT
* WD - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (1988-2006), Starmaker Entertainment (1995)
* WD - post-1988 tapes released under the Buena Vista Home Entertainment label and its respective subsidiaries, duplicated in California. Beginning in 1990, the arm's Livonia plant also used this prefix. Strangely, this prefix appeared on some Starmaker Entertainment tapes printed in May 1995, when Starmaker Entertainment merged with Video Treasures to form Anchor Bay Entertainment.
* VA - VidAmerica (1981-1992)
* VA - tapes released by VidAmerica
* VTM - 1990-1994Media Home Entertainment (tapes releaseddistributed by Video Treasures; under license from Media Home Entertainment1990-1994)
* VTSV - 1990-1992 tapes released under the Video Treasures label(1990-1992)
* VT - post-1992 tapes released under the Video Treasures label and its respective subsidiaries(1991-1995)
* VTBV - tapes released under the Burbank Video label(1992-1995)
* VTTG - same as VTBV (some tapes)
* VTTR - same as VTTG and VTBV (some tapes)
* VTMN - tapes released under the MNTexMNTEX Entertainment label(1992-1995)
* BRC - tapes released by Brentwood Home Video (1997-2004)
* ES - pre-1989Avon tapesProducts sold through Avon(1989)
* AVE - post-1989Avon tapesProducts sold through Avon(1989-1994)
* AVON - sameAvon asProducts AVE(1989-1994)
* SM - pre-1993 tapes sold through Simon Marketing/Promotional Concept Group. This prefix later appeared on some tapes released by the respective divisions and subsidiaries of(1988-1993), Sony Music Entertainment in the mid(199?-to-late 1990s.199?)
* PCG - post-1993 tapes sold through Simon Marketing/Promotional Concept Group(1993-199?)
* HBO - pre-2000 tapes released under the HBO Home Entertainment label(1988-2000)
* VV - Vestron Video (1982-1993), LIVE Entertainment (some tapes; 199?-199?)
* VV - tapes released under the Vestron Video label
* LV - tapes released under the Artisan Entertainment label(19??-200?)
* RPE - tapes released under the Republic Pictures Home Video label(1992-2000)
* RNK - Paramount Home Video (1988)
* RNK - pre-1993 tapes released by companies that normally worked with Rank Video Services America
* RK - MCA/Universal Home Video (199?-199?)
* RK - post-1993 tapes released by companies that normally worked with Rank Video Services America
* WV - tapes released under the Worldvision Home Video label(1988-1995)
* PA - Paramount Home Entertainment (demo tapes; 1999-200?)
* PA - some tapes released by Paramount Home Entertainment
* VM - tapes released by Trimark Home Video (1992-200?)
* SNY - tapes released by Sony Video Software (1982-1991)
* ST - tapes released under the Starmaker Entertainment label. After 1994(1989-1995), R&G Video tapes, which were distributed by Starmaker Entertainment, also used this prefix.(1994-1995)
* RG - tapes released by Starmaker Entertainment under the R&G Video label prior to (1990-1994)
* LM - tapes released by Shell Oil Company in(''Peanuts'' association with Lee Mendelsontapes; Productions1991-1993)
* CV - tapes released by Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment in(1981), theParamount earlyHome 1980s.Entertainment This also applied to some(on tapes sold through the Columbia House Club; in the late 1990s and early 2000s.199?-199?)
* MGM - tapes released by MGM/UA Home Video (1981-1990)
* WDWD - same as WD (1994)
* WDWD - same as WD. Seen on some tapes released by Buena Vista Home Video, printed in late 1994 using Sony Sprinter systems.
* WDKM - possiblysame aas misprintWD asand seen onWDWD (some tapes released by Buena Vista Home Video, printed between; 1994-1995 using Sony Sprinter systems.)
* WDTG - same as WD, WDWD and WDKM (some tapes; 1994-1995)
* WDWM - same as WD, WDWD, WDKM and WDTG (some tapes; 1994-1995)
* WDL - same as WD, WDWD, WDKM, WDTG and WDWM. This was spotted (on some early copies of the first four Disney Princess Collection tapes.; 1995)
* UV - tapesUrban releasedVision byEntertainment Urban Vision(????-????)
* LHV - tapes released by Lorimar Home Video (1987-1989)
* RB - tapes released by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows (199?-199?)
* CD - tapes released by Family Entertainment Network (????-????)
* Random codes (S8, X23, Y1, RC, Y5, X8, X12, M12, S35, etc.) - post-1990 (tapes duplicated in Livonia after 1990 using industrial duplicators or Otari TMD systems)
* 000 -(some notapes; indication1986-1988)
== Known stock number suffix codes ==
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