Central de Video

List of Customers

• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [Mexican]
• Bill of Wrights Entertainment, Inc. (1997)
• D.E.J. Productions
  • Square Dog Pictures (1999)
  • Two Left Shoes Films (1999)
• Diamond Entertainment Corporation
• Feature Films for Families
• Front Row Entertainment (one known EP/SLP mode copy of Mooch Goes to Hollywood)
• Genesis Media Group, Inc. (1996)
• Hemdale Home Video (one known copy each of The Princess and the Goblin and Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland)
• Impact Television International, Inc. (1999)
• MGM/UA Home Video (1996) (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)
• Random House Home Video (as confirmed by two known copies of Hop on Pop, each sold through Goldstar Video, as well as The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, sold through Feature Films for Families)
• 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.
• Walt Disney Home Entertainment [Mexican]
• Warner Home Video (some copies of City of Angels, Wrongfully Accused and The Avengers, and Mexican tapes)
• Warren Miller Home Video (1997)

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

SO1 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

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 by this company (until 1999 for USA tapes) had the white screen test pattern with a 1000hz 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 1010hz 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.
• Several tapes printed in Mexico also had a silent white screen at the beginning.

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
• Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal