Allied Vaughn

Former names

• Allied Film Laboratories (1960-1995)
• 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 (1993-2006)
  • Walt Disney Attractions (1989-2003)
  • ABC Video (199?-1996)
• Cascom Home Video (2004)
• Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. (2003)
• Chrysler Corporation
• DK Vision
• DreamWorks Records
• East Texas Distributors (except for Paramount releases) (1993-????)
• Feature Films for Families
• Geffen Home Video
• Golden Book Video (1991-1993)
• Group Productions
• Hanna-Barbera Home Video (1989-1992)
• Home Vision Entertainment
  • Public Media Video
• International Video Network (1995)
• Jay Jay Enterprises
• Kultur Video
• Lyrick Studios (1994-1997)
  • The Lyons Group (1991-1994)
• Made-to-Order Productions (1990)
• The Maier Group
• 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 three 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 World Wide Pictures Home Video 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.

• Some tapes that reuse Technicolor Video Services masters, particularly post-1995 pressings of pre-1995 Anchor Bay Entertainment tapes, had the stock number with the distributor's prefix, followed by either "MN#" or "MM#" and a three-digit number, on the left of the VBI at the beginning, like these three examples:

Example 1:

VT01421 MN#021

Example 2:

VT01421 MN#025

Example 3:

VT09399 MM#007

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VBI codes

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  An early version of the code. This does not show a date, but it begins with "AFV TN."

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  An example of the VBI that begins with "AFVTN."

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  An example of the VBI that begins with "AAFVTN."

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  Starting around mid-1995, the text in the beginning of the VBI code was changed to "ADT," presumably after the name change to Allied Digital Technologies.

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  An example of the VBI code on tapes starting in 1995.

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  An example of the VBI that begins with "ADT04."

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Locations

• Bingham Farms, Michigan (1969-2002)
• Chicago, Illinois (19??-1993) (ultimately consolidated into Allied's Elk Grove Village operations)
• Clinton, Maryland (198?-????)
• 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-????)
• Leonia, New Jersey (1993-1997) (acquired in Teletronics acquisition and ultimately consolidated into Allied's Hauppauge operations)
• Orlando, Florida (1985-????)
• San Francisco, California (19??-????)