Columbia Pictures Videocassette Services

List of Customers edit

  • Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment (1979-1982)

How to Tell edit

  • Several tapes duplicated here have the color bars test pattern with the 1000 hz tone at the end of the tape.
  • On some early tapes, "910" is etched somewhere on the tape.

Fun Facts edit

  • Following the acquisition of a 30% stake in Bell & Howell/Paramount Pictures Video Services by Columbia Pictures, this arm, owned by the latter, was merged with it, to become Bell & Howell/Columbia Pictures/Paramount Video Services in 1982.

Locations edit

  • Elk Grove Village, Illinois