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'''Technique:''' None. | '''Technique:''' None. | ||
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''' | '''Audio Variant:''' On the Laserdisc release of ''Tribute'', the 1980 Time-Life Video music is heard, due to sloppy plastering. | ||
'''Availability:''' It was a placeholder logo and was seen on Vestron VHS, Betamax, and some Laserdisc releases of the era. | '''Availability:''' It was a placeholder logo and was seen on Vestron VHS, Betamax, and some Laserdisc releases of the era. | ||
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'''Technique:''' Computer animation. | '''Technique:''' Computer animation. | ||
''' | '''Audio:''' | ||
* Synthesized tones heard on many '80s TV news programs, accompanied by laser zaps and more synthesized notes. | * Synthesized tones heard on many '80s TV news programs, accompanied by laser zaps and more synthesized notes. | ||
* For the closing variant with the first copyright stamp, it's only the synthesized theme. This version of the theme has also been used with the regular variant of the logo on at least one occasion. | * For the closing variant with the first copyright stamp, it's only the synthesized theme. This version of the theme has also been used with the regular variant of the logo on at least one occasion. | ||
''' | '''Audio Trivia:''' This is also heard on ''How to Beat Home Video Games'', which Vestron also produced. (Jim Flamberg is credited with "original music", so it would seem likely he is the composer of the Vestron theme.) | ||
''' | '''Audio Variants:''' | ||
* On <u>some tapes in Australia</u>, a different synthesized theme, "Videospots 4" by Harry Forbes from the Parry Music Library, is heard with added synth sound effects which are quieter than the original ones. This fanfare was the same one that was used on the [[United Film Distribution Company]] logo. | * On <u>some tapes in Australia</u>, a different synthesized theme, "Videospots 4" by Harry Forbes from the Parry Music Library, is heard with added synth sound effects which are quieter than the original ones. This fanfare was the same one that was used on the [[United Film Distribution Company]] logo. | ||
* <u>Some hi-fi stereo releases</u> from toward the end of the logo's life use a heavily reverberated version of the fanfare, which is also rechanneled. | * <u>Some hi-fi stereo releases</u> from toward the end of the logo's life use a heavily reverberated version of the fanfare, which is also rechanneled. | ||
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'''Technique:''' CGI animated and designed by Jan Carlee, Christine Chang, and Ken Pelin (among others) at R/Greenberg Associates. All three were previously a part of the special effects team for the original ''TRON'' movie. | '''Technique:''' CGI animated and designed by Jan Carlee, Christine Chang, and Ken Pelin (among others) at R/Greenberg Associates. All three were previously a part of the special effects team for the original ''TRON'' movie. | ||
''' | '''Audio:''' Same as the Vestron Pictures logo, composed by Roger Bellon. Sometimes, it is silent, or on some later releases (verification needed), had the [[Vestron Television]] music. | ||
'''Availability:''' | '''Availability:''' | ||
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'''Technique:''' CGI. | '''Technique:''' CGI. | ||
''' | '''Audio:''' A futuristic rearrangement of the second logo's music, ending with what sounds like a mixture of the light switch flick sound and a loud slam, when the logo gets static-shocked. | ||
'''Availability:''' Debuted online and appears on releases from Lionsgate's Vestron Video Collector's Series, beginning with ''Blood Diner'' and ''Chopping Mall''. | '''Availability:''' Debuted online and appears on releases from Lionsgate's Vestron Video Collector's Series, beginning with ''Blood Diner'' and ''Chopping Mall''. | ||