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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Vertical blanking information on commercial tapes
Message-ID: <1638@orca.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 16:36:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: orca.1638
Posted: Thu Aug  1 16:36:56 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 10:26:33 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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I rented "Revenge of the Nerds" on VHS cassette last night and noticed
that the vertical blanking stripe, normally black, contained the
letters "CBSFOX-%" (where "%" was an irreproducible squiggle),
stretching from the left margin to the center.  Is this related to copy
protection, or does it have some other function?  The tape played
flawlessly.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]