"Tape like splicing tape? If so, where was the last time YOU saw Star Wars!? Perhaps you mean the adhesive residue from the cement splices needed to cement the negatives together. It's really apparent on scope films since there is barely any space left between frames."

The LD transfers are ripe with these splices. I was taking out at least every other scene change. Tedious, tedious, tedious.

"But it's not splicing tape. It's cement."

The point being, it is there, and it can be quite visible.