Central de Video

Former names

• Duplivideo, S.A. de C.V. (1985-199?)

List of Customers

All had their tapes duplicated here following the RVSA spin-off in 1994:

• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [Mexican]
• Alpha Video Distributors, Inc. (1994) (Christmas Classics line)
• Bill of Wrights Entertainment, Inc. (1997)
• D.E.J. Productions
  • Square Dog Pictures (1999)
  • Two Left Shoes Films (1999)
• Diamond Entertainment Corporation
• Disney Videos/Walt Disney Home Video/Walt Disney Home Entertainment [Mexican]
• Feature Films for Families
• Genesis Media Group, Inc. (1996)
• Hemdale Home Video (one known copy each of The Princess and the Goblin, The Magic Voyage and Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland)
• Impact Television International, Inc. (1999)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (1995) (one known copy of Freddie the Frog)
• MGM/UA Home Video (1996) (some copies of MGM/UA Sings: All Dogs Go to Heaven 2)
• New Line Home Video (some copies of Blade and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
• Nintendo of America (N64: Change the System and Hey You, Pikachu!)
• Paramount Home Entertainment [Mexican]
• Plaza Entertainment (1998)
• SISU Home Entertainment (one known copy of Shalom Sesame: Passover)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment [Mexican]
• Tycoon Home Video
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment [Mexican]
• VideoVisa S.A.
• Warner Home Video (some copies of City of Angels, Wrongfully Accused and The Avengers, and Mexican tapes)
• Warren Miller Home Video (1997) (one known copy of Warren Miller's Snowriders 2: Special Sneak Preview)

How to Tell

• Tapes by this duplicator until mid-1999 had white, dark or yellow printings like this for example:

Example 1:

T-047 107K519 12 2974

THE BERENSTAIN BEARS

Example 2:

116 20000050906 90 4414

S01 CITY OF ANGELS

Example 3:

092 292S8001S 06 6052

C26 WRONGFULLY ACCUSED

Example 4:

100 292S8003-S 04 1974

D26 T H E A V E N G E R S

Example 5:

T-087 118G601 296 0776

V-4770 TOY STORY

However, on some tapes, such as N64: Change the System, Against a Crooked Sky, A Girl of the Limberlost, and The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, as well as some Diamond Entertainment Corporation tapes, the printings just said the title. On VideoVisa tapes where this happens, the VideoVisa catalog number appears to the left.

• Tapes duplicated in Mexico City had a white number stamped onto the spine indicating the tape length, as well as a sticker under the label with printings like this for example:

 01  454
T055  B7

• Tapes by this company (until 1999 for USA tapes) had the white screen test pattern with a 1000 Hz tone at the end. On some copies of N64: Change the System, City of Angels, Wrongfully Accused, and The Avengers, it was followed by the static roll of death. However, on copies of N64: Change the System by this company, the white screen test pattern at the end had a 1010 Hz tone.
• On copies of City of Angels, Wrongfully Accused, The Avengers, and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me duplicated by this company, there is a notation printed underneath the label that says "MADE IN MEXICO." On a few other tapes, it was printed on the side of the tape.
• Starting around mid-1999, when the duplicator was fully acquired by Technicolor, the printings became similar to those of the latter.
• Until late 1999, shortly after its acquisition by Technicolor, tapes by this duplicator also had the BHCP codes in the vertical blanking interval like the ones used by Deluxe from 1987 to 1996. As the changeover to RVSA codes happened after the spinoff, the VBI codes were never updated like the rest of Deluxe's. Known suffixes include 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46.
• Several tapes printed in Mexico during the mid to late '90s also had a silent white screen at the beginning.
• Tapes from Alpha Video Distributors, Inc.'s Christmas Classics line had the cassette shell in green.

Gallery

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  Logo for the company's US-based subsidiary from 1996 to 1998
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  Sometimes, in the printings, the letters in the title were spaced out.
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  An example of what the printings and print date looked like shortly after Technicolor's purchase of the company.
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Locations

• Beverly Hills, California
• Calexico, California (1991-????)
• Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal
• Mexicali, Baja California (1985-1991)

Trivia

• It was believed that RVSA's spin-off of this duplicator in 1994 resulted from the expiration of a tariff exemption.
• Prior to RVSA's spin-off of this duplicator, Paramount Home Entertainment was one of the duplicator's clients in the US. They would be a client of the duplicator's plants in the US again beginning in August 2005 when Technicolor became their official VHS duplicator in the US, just a few years after the Central de Video name was phased out (which in turn was a few years after Technicolor acquired them).