HMG Digital Technologies Corporation: Difference between revisions

[[File:Hauppauge Video Manufacturing, Ltd..jpg|thumb|Logo from when this company's video duplication division was known as Hauppauge Video Manufacturing, Ltd. The logo was still in use on some ads for JVC licensed duplicators well into 1994.]]

The company was originally founded in either the 1950s or 1960s as '''Keel Manufacturing Corporation''', a unit of Pickwick International, Inc. 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 pressed over 25,000 vinyl records per day in its early years. Eventually, the company began pressing over 100,000 vinyl records per day. In 1983, the company formed a division called '''Hauppauge Tape Manufacturing, Ltd.''' to serve the entire audio marketplace; at the time, compact audio cassettes werebecame asmore popular asthan vinyl records and vinyl records were slowly becoming less popular. In 1985, another division was formed, called '''Hauppauge Video Manufacturing, Ltd.''' to serve the video marketplace. In June 1989, when HRM ceased pressing vinyl records, it was renamed to '''Hauppauge Manufacturing Group, Ltd.''', with the HTM and HVM divisions folded as a result. In September 1993, HMG opened an optical disc manufacturing plant, which replicated CD-Audio and CD-ROM discs. 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. InOn January 11, 1995, [[Allied Vaughn|Allied Film and Video Services]] and HMG Digital Technologies merged to become Allied Digital Technologies. This merger cemented its 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.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020806103644/http://www.alliedvaughn.com/adt_h_1.shtml</ref>

* A*Vision Entertainment (19931990-1994)

* Some Goldstar Video tapes, including those from their Camelot Entertainment division, duplicated here said "'''HMG'''" inon the top left or bottom right corner of theface label.