Hauppauge Video Manufacturing

This company is also known as Hauppage Manufacturing Group (HMG).

History
The company was founded in 1981 as Hauppauge Record Manufacturing (a record duplicator), and produced over 100,000 vinyl records per day. In 1983, Hauppage Record Manufacturing formed Hauppauge Tape Manufacturing to serve the Audio marketplace. In 1994, HMG's Audio Division manufactured over 55 million cassettes for major record labels, independents and corporations. In 1985, the company expanded to video duplication, as Hauppauge Video Manufacturing. In September 1993, HMG opened an optical disc manufacturing plant, replicating CD-Audio and CD-ROMs. That same year, HMG became a publicly traded corporation and was renamed to HMG Digital Technologies Corp. In January 1995, Allied Film and Video and HMG Digital Technologies merged to become Allied Digital Technologies. This merger cemented its position as the nation's leading supplier of video, audio, CD and CD-ROM duplication to the non-theatrical market -- including corporate, special interest, educational, religious and children's programming.

List of Customers

 * ABC Video (198?-199?)
 * A-PIX Entertainment (1994)
 * A-Vision Entertainment (1993)
 * Kid Vision (1994)
 * BMG Video
 * Zoom Express/BMG Kidz (1993)
 * Goldstar Video (1993) (some tapes)
 * Illuminated Film Company/Scholastic (1993)
 * Island Visual Arts (1993-1995)
 * PolyGram Video (1993-1995)
 * MGM/UA Home Video (1986-1990)
 * Sony Music Entertainment (1993-1995)
 * Sony Wonder (1993-1995)
 * Random House Home Video (1995)
 * Saban Entertainment/Fox Kids Network (1993) (X-Men: Creator's Choice 2)

How to Tell

 * Some tapes may have shuffling color/black-and-white bars and sometimes color static at the end.
 * Not a single tape from this duplicator has any form of printing on the cassette.
 * Some SP mode tapes duplicated by this company from 1990-1994 generally had three, four, five, six or seven rectangles in the vertical blanking interval at the beginning of the tape.
 * Some EP/SLP mode tapes duplicated by this company generally had a capital H in the vertical blanking interval at the beginning of the tape.
 * Some Goldstar Video tapes duplicated by this company said "HMG" on the label.

Locations

 * Hauppauge, New York