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Videotape master structures

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These are the videotape master structures used by different duplicators. Please note that the leader and tail lengths may vary between individual copies.

3-G Videocassette Corporation

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TBD

Action Duplication

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Advanced Audio/Video Productions

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TBD

Advanced Digital Media

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TBD

AKO Enterprises

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 35 seconds

Allied Digital Technologies

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Chicago

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 50 seconds

Dallas

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TBD

Detroit

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 110 seconds

District of Columbia

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 30 seconds

East Tennessee

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 35 seconds

Hauppauge

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 15 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 55 seconds

Otari TMD

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TBD

Houston

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TBD

Long Island

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TBD

Orlando

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TBD

San Francisco

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 65 seconds

All Post

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TBD

American Media International

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TBD

American Sound & Video Corporation

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TBD

AP Video International

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TBD

Arrow America Video

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TBD

AstralTech

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TBD

Audio-Video-Color Corp.

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Cassette Communications Inc.

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TBD

Cassette Duplicators

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  • Black screen for 10 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 15 seconds

Cassette Productions

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TBD

Celebrity Duplicating Services

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Centercom

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In-cassette

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TBD

Otari TMD

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds (most at the end of the tape)
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 10 seconds

Central Video

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 15 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 15 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 40 seconds

Sony Sprinter

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With static roll
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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 15-20 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 20-42 seconds
  • Black screen for up to 30 seconds
  • Static roll
Without static roll
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  • Black screen for 15 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 18-20 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 30 seconds

Century Cassette Corp.

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TBD

Christian Video International

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TBD

Cine Magnetics

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TBD

Cinram International Inc.

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TBD

Color Film Corporation

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Colorlab

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TBD

Columbia Pictures Videocassette Services

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TBD

Copyrite Technologies

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Corporate Media Solutions

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TBD

CPU Duplication

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TBD

Crest Cassette Corporation

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TBD

Curtis Inc.

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TBD

Custom Duplication Incorporated

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  • Black screen for 15 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for the rest of the tape

DCA Media Solutions

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TBD

Deluxe Media Services

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El Segundo

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TBD

Garden Grove

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 40 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 60 seconds

Mexicali/Calexico

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 17-35 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 45-60 seconds

Sony Sprinter

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 30-35 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 10 seconds
  • Black screen for up to 60 seconds
  • Static roll

North Little Rock

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 30 seconds

Northbrook

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Double-speed

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 40 seconds

High-volume pancake

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 34 seconds with cut tone 30 seconds in

In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 20-30 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 60 seconds

Otari TMD

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With white screen test pattern
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Pre-1997
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  • Black screen for 30 or 60 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 30 or 60 seconds
  • Blank tape up until 15 seconds before the defined tape end (length in feet times 12 divided by 1.313 minus 15)
  • Black screen for 20 seconds with cut tone 10 seconds in
Post-1997
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  • Black screen for 60 seconds (30 seconds in SP) (the VBI code changes to the usual RVSA3X/DELUXE3X in the last 20 seconds)
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • White screen with tone for 30 seconds
Without white screen test pattern
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  • Black screen for 60 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen up until 15 seconds before the defined tape end (length in feet times 12 divided by 1.313 minus 15)
  • Black screen for 20 seconds with cut tone 10 seconds in

Real-time pancake

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • White screen with tone up until 20 seconds before the defined tape end (length in feet times 12 divided by 1.313 minus 20)
  • Black screen for 20 seconds with cut tone 15 seconds in

Denver Dubbing

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TBD

Diamond Entertainment

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TBD

Digital Excellence

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TBD

Downeast Duplicating

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Duplication Factory

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TBD

DXB Video Tapes

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TBD

Full Perspective Video Services

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for the rest of the tape

Future Duplicators

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In-cassette

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TBD

Otari TMD

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TBD

Hauppauge Video Manufacturing

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TBD

High Speed Video

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TBD

International Cassette

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

The Little Warehouse

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TBD

MagneTech Corporation

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Indianapolis

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  • Black screen for 10 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Optional static roll

Miami-Fort Lauderdale

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TBD

Magnetic Video Corporation

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TBD

Magno Sound

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TBD

Mardee

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Master Images Video Duplicating Inc.

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TBD

Matrix Video Duplication Corporation

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TBD

Media Associates Inc.

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TBD

Media Concepts Inc.

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TBD

Mirror Image Duplication Services

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In-cassette

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TBD

Otari TMD

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  • Black screen for 25 seconds (some at the end of the tape)
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 20 seconds

Morning Sun Productions

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TBD

MPL Film & Video

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TBD

Network Duplication Services

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TBD

Northstar Video Duplicators

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TBD

Nu Skin Duplication

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TBD

Osborn Video

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TBD

Paragon Media

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 80 seconds

Precise Media Services

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Precision Tapes/Precision Powerhouse

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TBD

Premiere America

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 15 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 120 seconds

Sony Sprinter

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  • Black screen for 15 seconds (20 seconds beginning in 1999)
  • Program content
  • Black screen for up to 210 seconds
  • Optional static roll

Premiere Video

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 45 seconds

Otari TMD

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TBD

Producers Color Service Inc. Video Cassette Division

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In-cassette

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TBD

Otari TMD

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TBD

Producers Tape Service

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TBD

Provac

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TBD

PSI Audio/Video Duplication

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TBD

PVS Corporate Services

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TBD

Resolution

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 15 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 90 seconds

Otari TMD

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  • Black screen for 45 seconds (most at the end of the tape)
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 45 seconds

Seitec International

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TBD

Sifford Media

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TBD

Silva Communications

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TBD

Sound Video Corporation

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TBD

Sterling Video Services

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TBD

Star Video Duplicating

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TBD

S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corporation

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TBD

Tapes Unlimited, Inc.

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TBD

Technicolor Video Services

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Camarillo

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 45 seconds

Livonia

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 45 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 40 seconds

Sony Sprinter

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 40 seconds

United Video/Audio Group

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TBD

U.S. Video

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TBD

Vaughn Communications

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Carrollton

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TBD

Carol Stream

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TBD

Chicago

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TBD

Denver

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TBD

Houston

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TBD

Irvine

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TBD

Milwaukee

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TBD

Minneapolis

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In-cassette

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TBD

Otari TMD

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  • Black screen for 40 seconds (most at the end of the tape)
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 30 seconds

Morrisville

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TBD

Nashville

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TBD

New York

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TBD

Norcross

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TBD

Orlando

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TBD

Pembroke Pines

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TBD

Phoenix

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TBD

Portland

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TBD

Seattle

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TBD

St. Louis

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TBD

Tampa

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TBD

VCA-Teletronics

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Chicago

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 45 seconds

Otari TMD

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TBD

Leonia

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 25 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 105 seconds

Otari TMD

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TBD

Video Cassette Duplicating Corp.

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Cincinnati

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 20-50 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 35-50 seconds

Sony Sprinter

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  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for TBD seconds

Video Duplication Services, Inc.

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In-cassette

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TBD

Otari TMD

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TBD

Video Lab Cassette Division

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Video Services Group, Inc.

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TBD

Video Software & Production Center, Inc.

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TBD

Videotape International, Ltd.

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TBD

Video Technology Services

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 310 seconds

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Video West Productions

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TBD

Vision Wise

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TBD

VTR Video

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In-cassette

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TBD

Otari TMD

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TBD

VU Media Duplication

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In-cassette

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TBD

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

WEA Manufacturing

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TBD

West Coast Video Duplicating/MediaCopy

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Los Angeles

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  • Black screen for 40 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 120 seconds

El Paso

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TBD

San Francisco

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 30 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 90 seconds

Otari TMD

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  • Black screen for 60 seconds (most at the end of the tape)
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 60-90 seconds

WRS Motion Picture & Video Laboratory

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In-cassette

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  • Black screen for 25 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 25 seconds
  • Black screen with tone for 155 seconds

Sony Sprinter

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TBD

Unknown duplicator #1

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Clients included A&M Video, Campus USA, Crown Video, and Major League Baseball Productions.

  • Black screen for 25 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 25 seconds

Unknown duplicator #2

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Clients included the New York Yankees.

  • Black screen for 20 seconds
  • Program content
  • Black screen for 15 seconds
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