Duplication Factory

From Home Video

This company is also known as The Duplication Factory.

List of Customers

  • Eli Lilly and Company (some rare tapes)
  • Feature Films for Families (some copies of Willy the Sparrow and The Buttercream Gang)
  • Firm Flex Video (some copies of Body by Jake Firmflex Workout Features Jake's Simple Seven)
  • Geoffrey Inc. (some Christmas tapes sold at Toys 'R' Us stores)
  • Hometime Video Publishing
  • Metacom
  • Scholastic Inc. (some copies of I Spy: More Than Meets the Eye)
  • Sony Wonder (2001) (some copies of Elmo's World: Birthdays, Games & More!)
  • Wagner (some copies of Instructional Video for Wagner Models 355 375)
  • Wet Cement Productions (some copies of Ewe Know: Are Ewe Thankful? and other Ewe Know tapes)


How to Tell

  • Some tapes from this duplicator had a print date in dark ink, which was laid out like the following examples:


Example 1:

T-80 DFI 37288 11/10/93 09:36


Example 2:

T-115 DFI 106608.01 2ND 5/3/01


  • Sometimes the printings looked like this instead:

Example 1:

HTC-UNDERGROUND 106243.11 2ND 4/23/01


Example 2:

EWE THANKFUL 112086.05 2ND 10/22/02

  • However, some tapes from this duplicator did not have any form of printing at all.
  • Tapes from this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
  • Two known copies of The Buttercream Gang and Willy the Sparrow by these duplicator have a code with a date and a clock on the bottom of the screen at the end, similar to what CDI Media did, sticking out from the bottom of the vertical blanking interval on their tapes. This was followed by a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the tail end.

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Locations

  • Chaska, Minnesota

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