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==Former names==
* AstralTech-Americas Inc. (U.S. facility)
* Pathé Video (1980-1990)
==History==
==List of Customers==
* Astral Home Entertainment [Canadian]
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** Hi-Tops Video [Canadian] (1986-1993)
* New World Video [Canadian] (1984-1989)
* RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video/Columbia Tristar Home Video [Canadian] (1983-1995)
** Magic Window [Canadian]
** MusicVision [Canadian]
* SC/Creswin [Canadian]
* Screencraft Video [Canadian]
* Sovicom [Canadian]
* Warner Home Video [Canadian] (1980-1994)
==How to Tell==
* Tapes duplicated
** Tapes duplicated in the early 80's also have the distributor's name on the sticker.
* Most tapes duplicated
** For some distributors, there may also be a month-year code engraved next to it (e.g. RCP 5 4 = May 1984).
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* Beginning in 1995, tapes duplicated
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* Tapes duplicated here may have a code on the vertical-blanking interval that begins with "PATH".
* Most tapes from this company were duplicated on cassettes manufactured by Fujifilm.
[[File:Pathé Sticker on Tape Guard (3 Different Copies of Sleeping Beauty, 1986 Disney).jpg|thumb|Prior to 1995, AstralTech used stickers on the top of the tape guard, with SKU numbers on them.]]▼
[[File:Sticker on Tape Guard (Pathé) (The Exorcist, 1981 Warner).jpg|thumb|In the early 1980s, Pathé Video used the distributor's name on the sticker.]]▼
[[File:Sticker on Tape Guard (Pathé) (Charlotte's Web, 1980's Astral).jpg|thumb|If the name did not indicate the distributor, it would always be PATHE.]]▼
[[File:AstralTech Ink Label (The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1994 Disney).jpg|thumb|Sometimes, in 1994, AstralTech used the ink print date method, slightly similar to the Technicolor-esque kind.]]▼
[[File:AstralTech Ink Label (Cinderella, 1995 Disney).jpg|thumb|Between 1995 and 1996, AstralTech used an ink printing slightly different from the Technicolor-esque kind.]]▼
==Known abbreviation letter codes==
* AV -
* ASTRAL - Astral Video (1990-????)
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* BVHE - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (1998-2006)
* CIC - CIC Canada (????-????)
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* MAG3 - CBS/Fox Video (1983-1986)
* MCA - MCA Home Video Canada (198?-198?)
* NWV1 - New World Video (1984-1989)
* RCP -
* COL - same as RCP (1990-1992)
* SC - tapes sold through Screencraft Video▼
* CTHV - Columbia TriStar Home Video (1992-1995)
* TCI - tapes released by Alliance Atlantis and Universal Studios Home Entertainment after Technicolor's acquisition of AstralTech in 2000▼
▲* TCI -
==Fun Facts==
* Astral Media sold its video duplication and distribution arm to [[Vantiva Supply Chain Solutions|Technicolor Video Services]] in 2000
== Gallery ==
=== Pathé Video ===
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File:PATH Interval (Pathé) (Dumbo, 1986 Disney).jpg|An example of what the code on the vertical-blanking interval used on tapes duplicated here looks like.
</gallery>
=== AstralTech ===
<gallery>
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File:Sleeping Beauty (1997 Walt Disney Home Video, eBay Photo).jpg
File:Hercules (1998 Walt Disney Home Video, eBay Photo).jpg
</gallery>
=== Technicolor Canada ===
<gallery>
File:Ink Label (Technicolor Canada) (Castle in the Sky, 2003 Disney).jpg|Following Technicolor's acquisition of AstralTech in 2000, this is what the ink printing looked like from that point on.
</gallery>
==Locations==
* Boca Raton, Florida
* Toronto, Ontario (1980-1994) (moved to Montreal)▼
* Montreal, Quebec (1994-2000)
▲* Toronto, Ontario (1980-1994) (moved to Montreal)
[[Category:Duplicators]]
[[Category:Anime duplicators]]
[[Category:Vantiva subsidiaries]]
[[Category:Duplicators founded in 1980]]
[[Category:Macrovision customers]]
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