HMG Digital Technologies Corporation

The logo for the company's video duplication subsidiary, Hauppauge Video Manufacturing, Ltd. This was used on ads for JVC licensed duplicators well into May 1995, just a few months after HMG's merger with Allied.

Former names

• Keel Manufacturing Corporation (19??-1981)
• Hauppauge Record Manufacturing, Ltd. (1981-1989)
• Hauppauge Manufacturing Group, Ltd. (1989-1993)

List of Subsidiaries

• Hauppauge Tape Manufacturing, Ltd. (1983-1995)
• Hauppauge Video Manufacturing, Ltd. (1985-1995)
• CD Vision (1993-1995)

History

The company was originally founded in either the 1950s or 1960s as Keel Manufacturing Corporation. Pickwick International, Inc. acquired the company in 1973. In August 1981, Pickwick International, Inc. sold the company and the company was renamed to Hauppauge Record Manufacturing, Ltd. The company was a vinyl record duplicator and produced over 25,000 vinyl records per day in its early years. Eventually, the company began producing over 100,000 vinyl records per day. In 1983, the company formed a subsidiary called Hauppauge Tape Manufacturing, Ltd. to serve the entire audio marketplace; at the time, compact audio cassettes became more popular than vinyl records and vinyl records were slowly becoming less popular. In 1985, another subsidiary was formed, called Hauppauge Video Manufacturing, Ltd. to serve the video marketplace. In June 1989, when HRM ceased the production of vinyl records, it was renamed to Hauppauge Manufacturing Group, Ltd. In September 1993, HMG opened an optical disc manufacturing plant, which replicated CD-Audio and CD-ROM discs; this plant was operated by a newly formed subsidiary of HMG called CD Vision. That same year, HMG became a publicly traded corporation, being renamed to HMG Digital Technologies Corporation. By 1994, HMG manufactured over 55 million cassettes for major music labels, independents and corporations.

On January 11, 1995, Allied Film and Video Services and HMG Digital Technologies merged to become Allied Digital Technologies; this merger cemented the newly combined company's position as the nation's leading supplier of video, audio, CD and CD-ROM duplication to the non-theatrical market, including corporate, special interest, educational, religious and children's programming.

List of Home Media Customers

• A&M Video (198?-199?)
• ABC Video (199?-199?)
• A-PIX Entertainment (1994-1995)
• A*Vision Entertainment (1990-1994)
  • KidVision (1994)
• Bertelsmann Music Group
  • BMG Kidz (1993)
  • BMG Video
• Camelot Corporation (1993-1994)
  • Goldstar Video/Goldstar Entertainment (1992-1993)
• Central Park Media (original release of Dominion Tank Police Act I, distributed by BMG Video)
• Consumer Video Manufacturing (1990) (The Best of Victor Borge, Act One and Act Two)
• Direct Cinema Limited (1993) (one known copy of The Statue of Liberty)
• Geffen Home Video
• Illuminated Film Company (1993) (The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories by Eric Carle)
• Island Visual Arts (1993-1995)
• Liberty Home Video
  • Capitol Nashville Home Video
• Lightyear Entertainment (marketed by BMG Video)
• Major League Baseball Home Video
• Marvel Creator's Choice (1993) (X-Men: Creator's Choice 2)
• MGM/UA Home Video (1986-1990)
• PolyGram Video (1993-1995)
• Private Music Video (1994) (Yanni Live at the Acropolis)
• Random House Home Video (1992-1993; tapes sold through Goldstar Video)
• SBK Music Video (1990) (one known copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Sony Music Entertainment (1993-1995)
  • Sony Wonder (1993-1995)
• The Sparrow Corporation (1994) (Carman the Standard)
• Turner Home Entertainment (1992-1993; The Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible videos sold through Goldstar Entertainment)
• Virgin Music Video (1989)

List of Audio Customers

• Pickwick International (19??-19??)

How to Tell for VHS Releases

• Some tapes may have shuffling color/black-and-white bars and sometimes color static at the end. (mainly EP/SLP mode tapes, although it sometimes appeared on SP mode tapes)
• Not a single tape from this duplicator has any form of printing on the cassette.
• Some SP mode tapes duplicated here from 1990-1994 generally had two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight vertical rectangles in the vertical blanking interval at the beginning of the tape.
  • A few other SP mode tapes had a number 9 in the vertical blanking interval at the beginning, sometimes with the above mentioned vertical rectangles.
• EP/SLP mode tapes, on the other hand, had a capital H in the vertical blanking interval at the beginning of the tape.
  • On tapes printed in 1994, it may change to a three-digit code (e.g. 744).
• Some Goldstar Video tapes, including those from after its merger with Camelot Corporation, duplicated here said "HMG" on the face label.
• Some tapes may have a silent white screen test pattern at some point at the end of the tape.

How to Tell for CDs

CDs manufactured by HMG generally have the following CD matrix format:

xxxx-y-y HMG ⁕[release cat#/title]⁕

Gallery

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  An ad for the company's CD Vision subsidiary, circa 1994
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  An example of the VBI code on SP mode tapes from this duplicator with four vertical rectangles.
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  An example of the VBI code on SP mode tapes from this duplicator with five vertical rectangles.
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  An example of the VBI code on SP mode tapes from this duplicator with six vertical rectangles.
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  An example of the VBI code on SP mode tapes from this duplicator with seven vertical rectangles.
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  An example of the VBI code on SP mode tapes from this duplicator with eight vertical rectangles.
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  An example of the VBI code on EP/SLP mode tapes from this duplicator.
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  An example of what the number 9 looked like in the VBI.

Locations

• Hauppauge, New York