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Former names[edit]

  • Allied Film Laboratories, Inc. (1960-1995)
  • Allied Film & Video Services (1983-1995)
    • Allied+WBS (Dallas-Ft. Worth location)
    • Diner+Allied Film & Video Services (San Francisco location) (from a merger with Leo Diner Films)
  • Allied Digital Technologies (1995-2002) (from a merger with HMG Digital Technologies Corporation)
    • Allied DT (shorthand form)

The company's current name came from a division formed from a merger with Vaughn Communications Inc. in March 1999.

History[edit]

List of Home Media Customers[edit]

  • Academy Entertainment (1993-1994)
  • Advanced Hunting Equipment, Inc.
  • America's Dairy Farmers (1994) (one known copy of Make Mine Milk)
  • Anchor Bay Entertainment (1995-2000)
    • Video Treasures (1995-1998)
      • Burbank Video (1991, 1995-1996)
      • MNTEX Entertainment (1995-1998)
    • StarMaker Entertainment (1995-1998)
  • Arista Records (2000)
  • The Baby Einstein Company
  • Benson Music Group
  • Best Film and Video Corporation
  • Blue Underground (2004) (one known copy of The Final Countdown)
  • Boggle-Goggle (2001)
  • Broadman & Holman Publishers (1993-1994)
  • BZK Productions & SpiceRaque Entertainment (2002) (one known copy of Basile: Growing Up Greek In America II - Live from Boston!)
  • Cascom Home Video (2004)
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. (2003)
  • CerBurg Products, Ltd.
  • Chrysler Corporation
  • Clyde Records, Inc. (1993)
  • Columbia TriStar Home Video (1992) (some copies of The Fisher King)
  • CIA (Comrade in America) (2005) (one known copy of Yakov Live on Broadway: As Long As We Both Shall Laugh!)
  • Congress Video Group (1988-1991)
  • Coronet/MTI Film and Video
  • DCI Music Video (1999)
  • Delta Education (1999)
  • Disney Educational Productions (1990-2007)
    • Walt Disney Educational Media Company (1987-1992)
  • DK Vision
  • DoubleVision Records (1998)
  • DreamWorks Records
  • DuPont Agricultural Products
  • East Texas Distributors (except for Paramount releases) (1993-????)
  • Facets Video (2000)
  • Feature Films for Families
  • First Baptist Church of Orlando, Florida (some tapes)
  • Focus on the Family (2002-2003) (tapes distributed by Zondervan)
  • FoxVideo (1994-1995) (some copies of Speed and one known copy of True Lies)
  • FUNimation Productions, Ltd. (1999) (some copies of DragonBall Z: Frieza - Death of a Prince)
  • Gateway Films/Vision Video (2004-2006)
  • Geffen Home Video
  • GlaxoWellcome Health Education (1997)
  • Goodtimes Home Video (1996) (one known copy of Hunters in the Sky)
  • Golden Book Video/Golden Books Family Entertainment (1991-2001)
  • Goldhil Video (1998)
  • Gospel Films Video (1987-1999)
  • GPN Educational Media (200?-2006)
  • Group Productions
  • HBO Video (screening cassettes)
  • Home Vision Entertainment
    • Public Media Video
  • Integrity Music
  • International Video Entertainment (1987-1988) (some tapes)
    • Family Home Entertainment (one known copy of Inspector Gadget: Fang the Wonder Dog)
  • International Video Network (1991, 1995)
  • Islander School of Fashion Arts (1995)
  • Jay Jay the Jet Plane Productions
  • The Jesus Video Project (one known copy of The Story of Jesus for Children)
  • Kultur (2005)
  • L.A. Hero (1993-1994)
  • Lance Entertainment Inc.
  • Little Palm Island (1993)
  • Lyrick Studios (1997)
    • The Lyons Group (1988-1997)
      • Barney Home Video (1992-1997)
  • Madacy Music Group (1997)
  • Made-to-Order Productions (1990)
  • MGM/UA Home Video (1989) (some copies of Moonstruck and the colorized version of 42nd Street)
  • Monarch Home Video
  • MPI Home Video (2003-2005)
  • National Geographic Video (1992-2008)
  • The Nature Company (1992)
  • Nelson Entertainment (S-VHS product)
  • Orbison Records (2000)
  • Orion Home Video (S-VHS product)
  • Palm Pictures
    • Manga Entertainment
  • Pamplin Entertainment (1996)
  • Paramount Home Entertainment (S-VHS product, as well as some standard VHS tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club, and MOD DVD releases)
  • Parker Brothers (1996-1997) (Star Wars Interactive Video Board Game)
  • Pixar Animation Studios (1998) (Geri's Game)
  • Playhouse Video (some copies of Dimples)
  • Premier Horse Network
  • Promotional Concept Group, Inc. (1995) (one known copy of Pinocchio in Outer Space)
  • Provisional Video
  • Publisher's Choice Video (2000)
  • Pyramid Film & Video (1999)
  • Questar Home Video
  • Rated Gee! (1997) (one known copy of a screener cassette of Walking Thunder)
  • Reedswain Soccer Videos & Books (1999)
  • Reunion Records, Inc. (1999)
  • Rhino Home Video (1999)
  • The Right Stuf International
  • RS Tours (1997) (one known copy of The Rolling Stones: Bridges to Babylon - 1998)
  • The Russell Meerdink Company, Ltd. (2006) (one known copy of Rooney’s Video Guide To Lameness - The Hind Leg and Back)
  • SCARS (1995)
  • Schlessinger Media (1998-2004)
  • SCI (1998)
  • Sea World (19??-2001)
  • Shannon Tanner (1999)
  • Shooting Gallery (2000)
  • Showcase Entertainment (one known copy of Frog and Wombat)
  • Simitar Entertainment (1999-2000)
  • Soccer Learning Systems
  • Sony Music Entertainment (1995-2001)
    • Columbia Music Video (1995-2001)
    • Sony Wonder (1994-2001)
      • Random House Home Video (1995-2001)
  • Sparrow (19??-1996)
  • Spektakula Promotions (2001)
  • Steve Rotfield Productions (1997) (one known copy each of Folly and Fear)
  • Sunset Hill Video (one known copy of a screener cassette of Wind Dancer)
  • Super Source Video
  • Tai Seng Video Marketing
  • Time-Life Video
  • Tommy Nelson (1999-2000)
  • TruVantage International Inc. (1998)
  • Unapix Consumer Products
  • Universal Studios Home Video (2000) (some copies of End of Days, For the Love of the Game, Man on the Moon, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Best Man and The Hurricane)
  • USAA
  • PolyGram Video/USA Home Entertainment (1995-2000) (in 2000, one known copy of a screening copy of Lucie Aubrac)
  • Video Placement Worldwide (2002) (two known copies of Mr. Jelly Belly's Factory Tour)
  • Video Professor Industries (1996)
  • View Video
  • Walt Disney Attractions
    • Disneyland (1991-1992, 2001) (one known copy each of A Day at Disneyland, The Magic of Christmas at Disneyland and The Disneyland Resort Video Guide)
    • Walt Disney World (1991-20??) (one known copy each of A Day at the Magic Kingdom, A Day at Epcot Center, From Dream to Reality and Beyond and 100 Years of Magic)
  • Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2025-present) (MOD DVD releases)
    • ABC Video (1995-1997)
  • Warner Bros. Publications (1999)
  • Warner Home Video (1998-1999) (one known copy of The Shawshank Redemption)
    • A*Vision Entertainment/WarnerVision Entertainment (19??-1995)
      • BodyVision (19??-1995)
      • KidVision (19??-1995)
      • The Maier Group
    • Turner Home Entertainment (199?-199?)
      • Hanna-Barbera Home Video (1989-199?)
  • WBIR-TV
  • WEA Latina Inc. (1998-1999)
  • Wellspring Media (2003-2005)
  • Wild Harvest Videos
  • Wolfe Video (1996, 1999) (one known copy each of Dos Fallopia: Pretty Girls, Not Too Bright and Such a Crime)
  • Wood Knapp Video
  • Word Entertainment (1997-2000)
  • World Wide Pictures Home Video
  • World Wrestling Entertainment Home Video (2005)
  • Xenon Entertainment Group (1999-) (including MOD DVD releases)
  • Zondervan (1996-2003)

List of Audio Customers[edit]

  • Arista Records
  • Focus on the Family
  • Griffin Music
  • JK Music, Inc.
  • Milan
  • RRRecords
  • Ruthless Records
  • Select Records
  • Self Abuse Records
  • Silvertone Records
  • Tee Pee Records
  • The Beautiful Music Company
  • Tyndale Entertainment
  • Wolfgang Records
  • World Domination Recordings

List of CD-ROM Software Customers[edit]

  • Acclaim
  • Simon & Schuster
  • Turner Interactive

How to Tell for Home Media Releases[edit]

  • Most tapes duplicated here have material printed in the vertical-blanking interval of the video signal at the beginning and end of it, akin to how tapes duplicated at Technicolor using Sony Sprinters begin and/or end. Some tapes from 1991 had it formatted like this for example:

Example 1:

AFV TN 263 Y1 SHIFT 2

Example 2:

AFV TN 345 Y1 SHIFT 3

Example 3:

AFV TN 031 Y2 SHIFT 3

  • 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" (e.g. AFVTN S1 09-04-94). Starting around mid-late 1995, this same code started with "ADT." In late 1995, the code became similar in terms of the typeface to the ones that appear on tapes duplicated at Technicolor's Livonia plant using Sony Sprinters, and was changed to a different code like this for example: "ADT8011161:07," with the code instead beginning with "ADT04" on tapes from clients inherited from HMG beginning in mid-1998. However, on tapes encoded with Macrovision, the Macrovision signal usually blocks all but the top of the code. But sometimes, the full code is shown for a few seconds before the Macrovision signal takes over.
  • Several early tapes use oversized reels, while some use regular reels.
  • Late '80s and early '90s tapes duplicated at Diner+Allied had a white or orange sticker with information and a print date on it, like this for example:

MOONSTRUCK

4180-01 112689BCB03-571 NTSC

On one known S-VHS copy of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, this sticker was on the right side of the cassette shell.

  • '80s tapes from its other locations had no printings on them save for what the manufacturer itself printed.
  • Tapes duplicated by Allied did not have anything in the vertical blanking interval until 1991, when the Video Fingerprints system, which records the serial number of the duplicating VCR on every videocassette produced by that specific machine as well as the time and date of manufacture, was installed at all seven of its locations.
  • Early '90s tapes from this duplicator had dark printings above the recording tab spot, like these examples:

Example 1:

11-227-120-M

Example 2:

23-76-T30-M

Example 3:

332-3-T60

Example 4:

2B-171-T144-R

  • Post-1993 tapes duplicated here have a print date in the form of a day-year code, as well as time. In addition, there would also be a release title (sometimes), a nominal length, and/or a serial code. Here are a few examples of how it was displayed:

Example 1:

T-29 D-027-021 0135-197-93

Example 2:

T-29 3-018-021 0056-092-94

Example 3:

0415655 023 032 22:38 056 99

T-31

Example 4:

T-85 023 032 20:10 264 99

Example 5:

0210649 2 21:17 264 97

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

Example 6:

1008552 0001 2 239 17:23 96

0180188-00002-000 CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

Sometimes, the day-year code and/or time are on the side. Here are a few examples of how it was displayed on the side:

Example 1:

A-1-93-111

Example 2:

A-1-1239-197-93

Example 3:

A-1-07:30-340-97

Example 4:

A-A-1216-364-95

  • On some tapes, the printings were different, and they ended with "EG." These tapes did not have anything on the side of the tape shell. Look at the following examples:

Example 1:

T25 B-003-033 18:31-187-95-EG

Example 2:

T45 C- 029-009 01:17-218-99-EG

Example 3:

T-30 A-003-009 11:54 225-04-EG

On these tapes, the code on the vertical blanking interval at the beginning and end of the tape was different (e.g. C187-5-2 for pre-1995 tapes (as well as some with the recording tab spot dark printings) or A2021891 for 1996-2008 tapes, as well as some with the standard printings. It is not yet known which location(s) used the CXXX-X-X VBI code.

Sometimes, the last digit of codes like these is different at the end, compared to the beginning.

However, a few tapes with either kind of printing had nothing in the vertical blanking interval.

  • Some other tapes from 1992-1995, such as a few tapes by Monarch Home Video and View Video, had a different VBI code (e.g. D294-931).
  • A few other tapes simply rendered the VBI code as "@<".
  • On some tapes, most notably from customers inherited from HMG, there wasn't any form of printing at all.
  • Some tapes from 1995-2000 with the mid-late 1995 "ADT" codes and the "ADT80" codes have the static roll of death at the end.
  • Some World Wide Pictures Home Video tapes, as well as one known copy of Dragonball Z: Frieza - Death of a Prince, had dark printings on the bottom middle side (e.g. T-115 B-003-008 22:21-150-02 MN).
  • Some tapes had dark printings that were formatted differently (T-45 101099 1432).
  • Some 2000's EP mode tapes from this duplicator had a different format for the printings (e.g. C SPR 111-05 W.O.69474).
  • Some tapes that reuse Technicolor Video Services sub-masters, particularly post-July 1995 pressings of pre-July 1995 Anchor Bay Entertainment tapes, may retain that duplicator's VBI materials, like these three examples:

Example 1:

VT01421 MN#021 ("3-Hour Christmas Classics", by Burbank Video)

Example 2:

VT01421 MN#025 ("3-Hour Christmas Classics", by Burbank Video)

Example 3:

VT09399 MM#007 ("Red Skelton: His Many Faces of Comedy", by Video Treasures)

Example 4:

VTTG1231 MN#001 ("World War II: Weapons of War", by Burbank Video)

However, on some copies of such tapes, the credentials printed in the VBI by the company themselves may be used instead, like these two examples:

Example 1:

ADT S1 07-30-95 ("Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook", by Video Treasures)

Example 2:

@ADT S1 08-30-95 ("3-Hour Christmas Classics", by Burbank Video)

  • Tapes from Rank Video Services America customers, at least before Allied's merger with HMG, had that duplicator's tape guard etchings inked on one side of the tape (e.g. CTV-227, possibly meaning the 27th week of 1992).
  • RVSA tapes around September 1994 simply had "RVS" etched into the left side of the cassette.
  • At least until the VCA-Teletronics plants were consolidated, tapes duplicated there continued to use the printings from before the purchase.
  • Tapes duplicated at the Hauppauge facility in the first couple of years following Allied's merger with HMG did not have any form of printing on the cassette, as it was with tapes printed at the facility under HMG ownership before the merger. Some tapes from this facility during that time had shuffling color/black and white bars and/or color static at the end, albeit somewhat distorted on some tapes.
  • Allegedly, some MOD DVD releases from Paramount Home Entertainment replicated by this company may contain UPC numbers belonging to this company.

How to Tell for Audio Releases[edit]

  • CDs manufactured by Allied Digital Technologies generally have the following CD matrix format:

xxxx-y-y ALLIED DT *[release cat#/title]*

Gallery[edit]

VBI codes[edit]

Locations[edit]

  • Bingham Farms, Michigan (1969-2002)
  • Brisbane, California
  • Chicago, Illinois (19??-1993) (ultimately consolidated into Allied's Elk Grove Village operations)
  • Clinton, Maryland (198?-199?) (moved to Landover)
  • Clinton, Tennessee (1990-????)
  • Dallas, Texas (1993-????) (acquired in Teletronics acquisition)
  • Elk Grove Village, Illinois (1993-????) (acquired in Teletronics acquisition)
  • Englewood, Colorado (1997-????) (acquired in Denver Dubbing acquisition)
  • Hauppauge, New York (1995-????) (acquired in HMG acquisition)
  • Houston, Texas (1993-????) (acquired in Teletronics acquisition)
  • Irving, Texas (1984-????)
  • Landover, Maryland (199?-????)
  • Leonia, New Jersey (1993-1997) (acquired in Teletronics acquisition and ultimately consolidated into Allied's Hauppauge operations)
  • Livonia, Michigan
  • Los Angeles, California
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Nashville, Tennessee
  • New York, New York
  • Norcross, Georgia
  • Orange County, California
  • Orlando, Florida (1985-????)
  • Phoenix, Arizona
  • Portland, Oregon (today, this location is owned by PlayDate PDX)
  • Raleigh, North Carolina
  • San Francisco, California (1983-????)
  • Seattle, Washington
  • Tampa, Florida

Websites[edit]

Older revisions of the site can be viewed via the WayBack Machine.

Trivia[edit]

  • CEO James Merkle's resignation resulted from a botched consolidation of the duplicator's videocassette operations to its East Tennessee facility in the summer of 1995 that took months to recover from.
  • In 2000, Allied spun off its videodisc replication facilities to AmericDisc and shortly after restarted videodisc replication on a manufacture-on-demand basis.

See also[edit]

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