Unknown duplicators

The following is a list of unknown duplicators. Once a duplicator in this list is identified, it should be removed from the list and a page should be created for it.

List of Known Customers

 * Price/Stern/Sloan Video (1990-1992)
 * RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1987)
 * Media Home Entertainment (1987-1989)
 * Streamline Pictures (1991-1994?)
 * Trinity Broadcasting Network (1989-1999)
 * Penton Kids/Cowles Syndicate, Inc. (1993)

How to Tell
T-100
 * Earlier tapes would have printings above the spot where the record tab would be, like this for example:

024888-2

Beginning around late 1989, this was changed to engraved letters and numbers. W.O.#18441W
 * Some earlier tapes also had a sticker with information on it on the bottom middle side, like this for example:

HOLIDAY

Slave #V SP Pass 3

Around 1990, this was changed to printings on the tape guard. Sometimes, it would appear like this for example:

W.O.8504

SILLYVILLE

PASS 3 SLAVE 976


 * Some RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video tapes duplicated by this company had a black screen test pattern with a 1133hz tone at the end.

List of Known Customers

 * New Yorker Video
 * Colgate
 * AnimEigo (1997)
 * Zeitgeist Video (2002)
 * Media Education Foundation (2000)
 * New River Media (1999)

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had dark red printings like this for example:

T-105 21647 CELESTE

List of Known Customers

 * First Look Home Entertainment (2003-2005)
 * Showtime Entertainment (2001-2004)
 * Sundance Channel Home Entertainment (2002-2004)
 * Funimation Entertainment (2001-2004)
 * Two Left Shoes (2002) (some copies of Lush)
 * Maverick Entertainment (2002)
 * Gym-Mark/The Gymboree Corporation (2001)

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had printings like this:

Example #1:

TITLE: EVIL BUU (UNCUT) B2450

04/02 T-70

Example #2:

TITLE: VISITOR

10-03 T-96 PASS 001

Example #3:

TITLE: CYBERMUTT

02/04 T-88 192 PASS 001

List of Known Customers

 * ADV Films
 * Questar Home Video
 * TLC (1993)
 * Strand Home Video
 * Cabin Fever Entertainment (1990)
 * First Look Pictures (2000-2001)

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had blue printings like this for example:

21415435 VHSHH/001D H/4222GEO 51

List of Known Customers

 * Zoom Express/BMG Kidz (1993)
 * PolyGram Video (1993-1994)
 * Illuminated Film Company/Scholastic (1993)
 * A-Pix Entertainment (1994)

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company generally had three, five, six or seven rectangles in the vertical blanking interval.
 * Some tapes duplicated by this company have shuffling color bars and/or color static. Some others do not have anything.

List of Known Customers

 * A-Vision Entertainment (1993)
 * Kid Vision (1994)
 * PolyGram Video (1994)
 * Saban Entertainment/Fox Kids Network (1993)

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company generally had a capital H in the vertical blanking interval.
 * Some tapes duplicated by this company have shuffling color bars and/or color static.

List of Known Customers

 * Price/Stern/Sloan Video (1991-1992)

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had a white number 75 or 80 above the recording tab spot (possibly indicating tape length).
 * There is no other known form of printing on tapes from this duplicator, aside from the number above the recording tab spot.

List of Known Customers

 * Simitar Entertainment

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had dark red printings like the ones in the picture below.

List of Known Customers

 * Bridgestone

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had white printings on the left side of the cassette, like the ones in the picture below.

List of Known Customers

 * Montgomery Ward

How to Tell

 * Tapes duplicated by this company had dark red printings like the ones in the picture below.

Vertical Blanking Intervals from Other Duplicators
Below is a gallery of what the vertical blanking intervals on tapes duplicated by some other duplicators look like. Once a vertical blanking interval or duplicator is identified, please remove it from the gallery and put it on its' page.