Hauppauge Video Manufacturing

Also known as

• Hauppauge Manufacturing Group
• HMG Digital Technologies

History

The company was founded in 1981 as Hauppauge Record Manufacturing (a record duplicator), and produced over 100,000 vinyl records per day. In 1983, Hauppauge Record Manufacturing formed Hauppauge Tape Manufacturing to serve the Audio marketplace. In 1994, HMG's Audio Division manufactured over 55 million cassettes for major record labels, independents and corporations. In 1985, the company expanded to video duplication, as Hauppauge Video Manufacturing. In September 1993, HMG opened an optical disc manufacturing plant, replicating CD-Audio and CD-ROMs. That same year, HMG became a publicly traded corporation and was renamed to HMG Digital Technologies Corp. In January 1995, Allied Film and Video 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.

List of Customers

• ABC Video (198?-199?)
• A*Vision Entertainment (1993-1994)
  • KidVision (1994)
• BMG Video
• BMG Kidz (1993)
  • Lightyear Entertainment
• Central Park Media (original release of Dominion Tank Police Act I, marketed by BMG Video)
• Geffen Home Video
• Direct Cinema Limited (1993)
• Goldstar Video/Camelot Entertainment (1992-1994)
• Illuminated Film Company (1993)
• Island Visual Arts (1993-1995)
• Liberty Home Video
  • Capitol Nashville Home Video
• Major League Baseball Home Video
• MGM/UA Home Video (1986-1990)
• PolyGram Video (1993-1995)
• Private Music Video (1994) (Yanni Live at the Acropolis)
• Saban Entertainment (1993) (X-Men: Creator's Choice 2)
• SBK Music Video (1990)
• Sony Music Entertainment (1993-1995)
  • Sony Wonder (1993-1995)
    • Random House Home Video (1991-1993) (tapes sold through Goldstar Video)
• Turner Home Entertainment (1991-1993) (The Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible videos sold through Goldstar Entertainment)
• Unapix Consumer Products (1994-1995)
  • A-PIX Entertainment
  • Unapix Entertainment

How to Tell

• 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 by this company 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.
• 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 and Camelot Entertainment tapes duplicated by this company said "HMG" in the top left or bottom right corner of the label.
• Some tapes may have a silent white screen test pattern at some point at the end of the tape.
• A few tapes had the number 9 in the vertical blanking interval at the beginning, sometimes with the vertical rectangles.

Gallery

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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 EP/SLP mode tapes from this duplicator.

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Locations

• Hauppauge, New York