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* [[Pioneer Entertainment]] (mainly on DVD releases)
* [[Pioneer Entertainment]] (mainly on DVD releases)
* [[PolyGram Video]] (1997-1999)
* [[PolyGram Video]] (1997-1999)
* Price Stern Sloan Video (1992)
* Price/Stern/Sloan Video (1992)
* [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]] (on some rare occasions on VHS: 1996-1999; DVD: 1997-2003)
* [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]] (on some rare occasions on VHS: 1996-1999; DVD: 1997-2003)
** [[Sony Wonder]] (on some 2006 releases)
** [[Sony Wonder]] (on some 2006 releases)
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** [[New Line Home Entertainment]] (on early DVD releases, as well as on the VHS of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze and on some pre-Time Warner Turner-era VHS releases)
** [[New Line Home Entertainment]] (on early DVD releases, as well as on the VHS of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze and on some pre-Time Warner Turner-era VHS releases)
*** [[Nelson Entertainment]] (experimental, only during the Embassy years)
*** [[Nelson Entertainment]] (experimental, only during the Embassy years)
* [[Wide-Eyed Learning]] (2003)
* [[Zomba Video]]
* [[Zomba Video]]
** [[Jive Records]]
** [[Jive Records]]


== List of Known Duplicators That Used Macrovision ==
== List of Known Duplicators That Used Macrovision ==
* AIMedia Solutions (formerly Opryland Duplicating Services and Network Duplication Services)
* Allied Vaughn (formerly Allied Film & Video)
* Allied Vaughn (formerly Allied Film & Video and Allied Digital Technologies)
** Hauppauge Video Manufacturing, Ltd.
** Vaughn Communications Inc.
** Vaughn Communications Inc.
* All Post, Inc.
* American Sound & Video
* American Sound & Video
* Ashland Video Corp.
* Cine Magnetics
* Audio-Video-Color Corp.
* CDI Media (formerly Cassette Duplicators Incorporated)
* Cinram
* Cinram
* CMI Media Management Solutions (formerly Cine Magnetics Video & Digital Laboratories)
* Color Film Corporation
* Deluxe Video Services (formerly BHCP Video and Rank Video Services America)
* Deluxe Video Services (formerly BHCP Video and Rank Video Services America)
* Denver Dubbing
* Denver Dubbing
* Digital Communications Technology Corporation (formerly Magnetech Corporation)
* Digital Communications Technology Corporation (formerly MagneTech Corporation)
* Digital Excellence Inc.
* Digital Excellence
* DXB Video Tapes, Inc.
* DXB Video Tapes, Inc.
* Full Perspective Video Services Inc.
* Full Perspective Video Services, Inc.
* International Cassette Corp.
* International Cassette Corp.
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* MediaCopy (formerly West Coast Video Duplicating)
* Media Home Entertainment
** Media Home Entertainment
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* MediaCopy, Inc. (formerly West Coast Video Duplicating)
* Paragon Media, Inc.
* Opryland Duplicating Services
* Premiere Video
* Premiere Video
* Producers Color Service Inc.
* Producers Color Service Inc. Video Cassette Division
* Scenewise Inc. (formerly Custom Duplication Incorporated and Scope Seven)
* Scenewise Inc. (formerly Custom Duplication Incorporated and Scope Seven)
* Sifford Media
* Sifford Media
* Technicolor Video Services
* Technicolor Video Services
** The CBS/Fox Company
** The CBS/Fox Company
* VDC Group
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* The Duplication Group (formerly Cassette Productions)
* The Video-Matic Group
* The Video-Matic Group
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** The Duplication Group (formerly Cassette Productions)
* Video Services Group, Inc.
* Video Technology Services
* Video Technology Services
* Vision Wise
* Vision Wise

Latest revision as of 06:40, 17 June 2024

The Macrovision Analog Protection System (APS), also known as Copyguard by some people, is a videocassette and videodisc copy protection system originally developed by Macrovision Corporation. The system was developed to prevent bootlegging of original videocassettes and DVDs.

System History[edit]

The Analog Protection System was originally introduced in 1985 with the home video release of the 1984 film The Cotton Club by Embassy Home Entertainment. It was intended to replace the StopCopy protection system first introduced in 1978. By 1990, most of the major film distributors were using the APS system for their releases, with the main holdout coming from RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video.


List of Customers[edit]

List of Known Duplicators That Used Macrovision[edit]

  • AIMedia Solutions (formerly Opryland Duplicating Services and Network Duplication Services)
  • Allied Vaughn (formerly Allied Film & Video and Allied Digital Technologies)
    • Hauppauge Video Manufacturing, Ltd.
    • Vaughn Communications Inc.
  • All Post, Inc.
  • American Sound & Video
  • Ashland Video Corp.
  • Audio-Video-Color Corp.
  • CDI Media (formerly Cassette Duplicators Incorporated)
  • Cinram
  • CMI Media Management Solutions (formerly Cine Magnetics Video & Digital Laboratories)
  • Color Film Corporation
  • Deluxe Video Services (formerly BHCP Video and Rank Video Services America)
  • Denver Dubbing
  • Digital Communications Technology Corporation (formerly MagneTech Corporation)
  • Digital Excellence
  • DXB Video Tapes, Inc.
  • Full Perspective Video Services, Inc.
  • International Cassette Corp.
  • MediaCopy (formerly West Coast Video Duplicating)
    • Media Home Entertainment
  • Paragon Media, Inc.
  • Premiere Video
  • Producers Color Service Inc. Video Cassette Division
  • Scenewise Inc. (formerly Custom Duplication Incorporated and Scope Seven)
  • Sifford Media
  • Technicolor Video Services
    • The CBS/Fox Company
  • VDC Group
  • The Video-Matic Group
    • The Duplication Group (formerly Cassette Productions)
  • Video Services Group, Inc.
  • Video Technology Services
  • Vision Wise
  • WRS Motion Picture & Video Laboratory
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