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Revision as of 06:43, 10 March 2024

List of Customers

  • ADV Films
  • Cabin Fever Entertainment
  • Cartoon Network (some copies of the promotional "Rainy Day Survival Kit" tape)
  • Clyde Records, Inc.
  • Cycle Vision Tours
  • Dorset Video
  • First Look Pictures (2000-2001)
  • Full Moon Entertainment
  • General Motors
  • Glenbower Productions, Inc.
  • Jesus Video Project
  • KVC Entertainment (1991-1992)
  • Madacy Music Group
  • MGM/UA Home Video (screener copies of Blue Steel)
  • Plaza Entertainment
  • PolyGram Video (some copies of The Busy World of Richard Scarry: Mr. Frumble's New Cars)
  • Questar Home Video (????-2001)
  • Scholastic (1998)
  • Strand Home Video
  • The Baby Einstein Company (1998)
  • TLC (1993)
  • Voyager Entertainment, Inc.
  • Word Entertainment (1989)
  • Xenon Video

How to Tell

  • Tapes duplicated by this company had blue printings like the following examples:


Example 1:

1X65630S105511 RAINY DAY 44155LR T46


Example 2:

21415435 VHSHH/001D H/4222GEO 51


Example 3:

56399/104709/PATSY CLINE/74026/T-55


Example 4:

4113221B 2313 COUNTRY BLOOP 467352TM63


Example 5:

K15472/112010 JIG DON'T JOG 84168LR T55


  • Early tapes, such as Teacher TV: Technology in the Classroom or Mike Warnke: Do You Hear Me?!, had a sticker with information and a print date on it, with only the tape length printed in blue on the right or, in the case of the latter, nothing at all. The information and print date on the sticker were arranged like the following examples:


Example 1:

026959 107929

TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM

2 12/01/93


Example 2:

036043/001 135011

8015030692 DO YOU HEAR ME?/M

6769 89/89


  • Some tapes from this company had a black screen test pattern with a 400hz tone at the end, while some others had the static roll of death. Some had nothing.
  • Some tapes simply had the blue printings arranged in the following manner. Such tapes did not have anything at the end.

MARTIAN SUCCESSOR 1 SUB T90377


Locations

  • Altamonte Springs, Florida
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Germantown, Maryland
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Riva, Maryland