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[[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.]]
== Former names ==
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== History ==
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
== List of Home Media Customers ==
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** Lightyear Entertainment
* Central Park Media (original release of Dominion Tank Police Act I, marketed by BMG Video)
* CVM (1990) (The Best of Victor Borge, Act One and Act Two)▼
* Direct Cinema Limited (1993)
* Geffen Home Video
▲* GMZ Productions/CVM (1990) (The Best of Victor Borge, Act One and Act Two)
* Goldstar Video/Goldstar Entertainment (1992-1994)
** Camelot Entertainment (not to be confused with Camelot Entertainment Sales; the ad sales division of King World Entertainment)
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* 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 or seven 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.
* Some EP/SLP mode tapes, on the other hand, had a capital '''H''' in the vertical blanking interval at the beginning of the tape.
* Some Goldstar Video tapes, including those from their Camelot Entertainment division, duplicated here said "'''HMG'''" on the face label.
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