Video Cassette Duplicating Corp.

List of Customers

 * Video Treasures (1985-1992)
 * Burbank Video (1991-1992)
 * MNTex Entertainment (1992)
 * Parents Approved Video (1988-1990) (tapes distributed by Video Treasures)

How to Tell

 * Pre-1988 tapes have a record tab intact, while post-1988 tapes omitted it.
 * Pre-1986 tapes may have a silent color bars test pattern.
 * 1986-1987 tapes may have a silent White Screen of Death test pattern.
 * Post-1988 tapes have a shuffling rainbow transition pattern at the beginning, middle and/or end.
 * Some post-1988 tapes have a hi-fi track, in addition to a linear one.
 * 1988-1990 tapes with an ink-label use gray-white texture, while post-1990 tapes with an ink-label use normal white texture.
 * Most 1987-1990 tapes have a dark ink print date in an unusual format.
 * Print date example -- if the print date reads "AUG 25 89", that means the tape was printed on August 25, 1989.
 * Tapes printed after 1990 do not use a print date at all. Technicolor Videocassette had put white stickers on the bottom side label space during a transitory period following its acquisition of Video Cassette Duplicating Corp. from Handleman Corporation.