Allied Digital

Former names

• Allied Film Laboratories (1969-1995)
• Allied Film & Video Services (1983-1995)
  • Diner+Allied Film & Video Services (San Francisco location)
• Allied Digital Technologies (1995-2002)

Current name

• Allied Vaughn (1999-present) (a division formed from a merger with Vaughn Communications Inc.)

List of Customers

• A-PIX Entertainment
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (1995-2000)
  • Video Treasures (1995-1998)
    • Burbank Video (1995)
    • MNTex Entertainment (1995-1998)
    • Starmaker Entertainment (1995-1998)
• Benson Music Group
• Buena Vista Home Video (1996-1997)
  • Disney Educational Productions (1989-2006)
  • Walt Disney Attractions (1989-2003)
  • ABC Video (199?-1996)
• Cascom Home Video (2004)
• DK Vision
• DreamWorks Records
• Feature Films for Families
• Golden Book Video (1991-1993)
• Group Productions
• Hanna-Barbera Home Video (1989-1992)
• Home Vision Entertainment
  • Public Media Video
• Jay Jay Enterprises
• Kultur Video
• Lyrick Studios (1994-1997)
  • The Lyons Group (1991-1994)
• Made-to-Order Productions (1990)
• Monarch Home Video
• MPI Home Video
• National Geographic Video
• Palm Pictures
  • Manga Entertainment
• PolyGram Video (1995-199?)
• Questar Home Video
• Schlessinger Media
• Shooting Gallery
• Sony Music Entertainment (1995-2001)
  • Sony Wonder (1995-2001)
    • Random House Home Video (1995-2001)
• Time-Life Video
• Wellspring (2003-2005)
• Wood Knapp Video
• Word Entertainment (1997-2000)
• World Wide Pictures Home Video
• World Wrestling Entertainment Home Video (2005)

How to Tell

• Most tapes duplicated at Allied Digital have a numeric code on the vertical-blanking interval of the screen at the beginning and end of it, akin to how tapes duplicated at Technicolor in the West Coast area begin. On tapes from 1992 to 1995, the vertical blanking interval has a date in the code, and begins with either "AFV TN," "AFV," "AFVTN", "AAFVTN" or "@FVTN". Starting around mid-late 1995, this same code started with "ADT." In late 1995, the code changed to a different code like this for example: "ADT8011161:07," with the code sometimes instead beginning with "ADT04." However, on tapes encoded with Macrovision, the Macrovision signal blocks all but the top of the code.
• Several tapes use oversized reels, while some use regular reels.
• Early tapes from this duplicator had dark printings above the recording tab spot, like these two examples:

Example 1:

11-227-120-M

Example 2:

23-76-T30-M

Example 3:

332-3-T60

• Post-1993 tapes duplicated at Allied Digital have a day-year code, as well as a print time. In addition, there would also be a name of the release, a nominal length, and/or a serial code. Sometimes, the day-year code and time are on the side.
• Some tapes with the "ADT80" codes have the static roll of death at the end, while some with the "ADT04" code have shuffling color/black and white bars and/or color static.
• Some tapes had dark printings on the bottom middle side, which were laid out like this for example:

T-115 B-003-008 22:21-150-02 MN

• Post-2004 EP mode tapes from this duplicator had different printings, which were laid out like this for example:

C SPR 111-05 W.O.69474

Tapes with printings like these do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.

Gallery

Allied Film & Video

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  The company's logo from the former name

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  An example of the kind of printing on the side of the tape, used on some tapes printed after 1993. The color of the printing may vary, as may the color of the cassette.

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  An example of the numeric code on the vertical blanking interval looks like when blocked by the Macrovision encoding signal.

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Allied Digital

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  The company's logo

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  An example of what the numeric code on the vertical blanking interval at the beginning of the tape looks like.

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  An example of what the code on the vertical-blanking interval looks like with a date, beginning with "ADT".

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  An example of the numeric code being blocked by the Macrovision encoding signal.

Locations

• Bingham Farms, Michigan
• Englewood, Colorado (1997-????) (acquired in Denver Dubbing acquisition)
• Hauppauge, New York (1995-????) (acquired in HMG acquisition)