Video Cassette Duplicating Corp.

List of Customers

• Media Home Entertainment (1988-1992) (some self-distributed tapes; mostly tapes distributed by Video Treasures)
  • Hi-Tops Video (1988-1992) (some self-distributed tapes; mostly tapes distributed by Video Treasures)
  • The Nostalgia Merchant (1988) (some self-distributed tapes)
• Video Treasures (1985-1992)
  • Burbank Video (1989, 1991-1992)
  • MNTEX Entertainment (1991-1992)

How to Tell

• Some pre-1989 tapes have a record tab intact. Most tapes omit it, however.
  • Pre-1986 tapes may have a silent color bars test pattern.
  • 1986-1987 tapes may have a silent white screen test pattern.
• Most post-1988 tapes have slight color static at the beginning, middle and/or end.
• Some post-1988 tapes have a hi-fi track, in addition to a linear one.
• Many 1988-1990 tapes have a gray-text inked label. Most post-1990 tapes have a white-text ink-label.
• Most 1987-1990 tapes have a dark ink print date in an unusual format. However, pre-1987 tapes do not have a print date at all, neither do post-1990 tapes.
  • Print date example -- if the print date reads "AUG 25 89", that means the tape was printed on August 25, 1989.
• One known copy of Abbott & Costello - Colgate Comedy Hour Vol. 5, from Burbank Video, printed here had a whirring sound at the beginning of the tape for some reason (presumably from the master tape it was duplicated from), which sounded like someone saying "Whooooooooo…". This credential occurred right before the tracking control disclaimer. Said copy was printed in early 1992, according to the face label (which is a sticker) on the tape which has the Video Treasures logo.

Gallery

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  This is what the dark ink print date, used on some tapes from 1988 to 1990, looks like.

Locations

• Cincinnati, Ohio (1989-1992) (ultimately consolidated into Technicolor's Livonia operations)
• Hackensack, New Jersey (1985-1990) (possibly mostly consolidated into Technicolor's Livonia operations, while some assets may have been possibly consolidated into their Newbury Park counterpart)
• Marina Del Rey, California (1987-199?) (acquired from Hal Roach)