UserWiki:Lappy4861

stuff i found

A slide from a local cable provider in Shenandoah, PA
A partial clip of the "Fuji Fun Time" bumper that appeared before anime on the International Channel.
The end of the now-found Fuji Fun Time bumper.
A strange version of the Technos Japan logo from an unlicensed copy of one of their games.

idk what else to put below but here's an avid-style formatting of my company LTV.

LTV Home Entertainment

LTV Home Entertainment is the home entertainment division of the TV channel LTV. They were founded in 1985 as LTV Video, later Lappy Home Video. In 2003, the name changed to LTV Home Video, and then to their current name in 2024.

LTV Video

1st Logo (1985-1987)

Visuals: On a black background, some multi-coloured lines are seen. The lines then move around and form an outline of the 1985 LTV logo, while the text “VIDEO” zooms out below the LTV logo. The VIDEO text then flashes white, which dies down to a cobalt blue color.

Technique: Scanimation by Computer Image Corporation.

Audio: A highly phased synth tune, followed by a synth cord when the VIDEO text flashes. Composed on a Yamaha YPG-235 with the Flanger1 preset.

Audio Variants:

A silent version exists.
On releases outside of the US, a slightly different version of the theme plays. (This version instead uses the Flanger2 preset on the YPG-235)

Availability: Seen on early LTV Video tapes. One example is the 1986 VHS release of The Search.

Lappy Home Video

1st Logo (1987-1996)

Visuals: On a white background, many multicoloured shapes fly in from different directions. They come together, forming a modified version of the 1985 LTV logo, with an H instead of a V (resulting in there being two yellow blocks). Then two yellow blocks wipe up and down at the bottom of the H, while a purple triangle wipes right in top of the V. The text “Lappy Home Video” fades in below the logo.

Variants:

Sometimes, the logo transitions from the warning screen via a checkerboard effect.
A shortened version starting at the blocks wiping exists.
At the end of tapes, the finished logo is seen. The LHV logo then flashes, then flies out while the text flies out. The background then animates like a TV switch-off effect.
At the end of Australian tapes, the logo transitions from the credits via a page-turn effect. The logo then animates, but after the text flies out, the text “DON’T FORGET TO REWIND” flies in and flashes. The logo then animates with the TV switch-off effect.
A still version exists at the beginning of tapes (before the warning screen). This practice was similar to what Orion Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video did in the 1980s.

Technique: Computer animation.

Audio: A funky synth tune.

Audio Trivia: The synth tune heard is actually the song “Funky Pop” from the Bruton Music Library’s album “Music For Public Television”. The logo music was also used in the Kentucky Educational Television logo (albeit shorter).

Audio Variants:

The shortened version has an abridged tune.
The still version is silent.
The end-of-tape version is exactly the same, but with a TV-switch-off sound at the end.
The Australian end-of-tape version has an announcer (Thomas Brophy himself) saying “Don’t forget to rewind this cassette before returning it to your video library.”

2nd Logo (1996-1999)

Visuals: On a white background, an already-completed LHV logo zooms by. Another LHV logo is revealed in the center and begins spinning and shrinking. It stops and the text “LAPPY HOME VIDEO” flies in from below.

Variants: A version with a black background exists.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A redone version of the previous logo’s music, with whooshes at the start as the LHV logo passes by.