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* Focus on the Family (1992-1993) (Adventures in Odyssey tapes)
* Front Row Entertainment
* Goldstar Video (1992-1993
** The Little Red Schoolhouse (1993) (''Mother Goose'' videos)
** Goldrix Entertainment (1993) (a joint venture with this company)
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* Pamplin Entertainment
* Polynesian Cultural Center (????-19??) (some tapes)
* Random House Home Video (1991-1993) (tapes sold through Goldstar Video)
* Showtime Entertainment
* Streamline Pictures (1990-1991)
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* Numerous tapes from this duplicator have a record tab intact.
* Most tapes from this duplicator have the static roll of death at the end, sometimes following four minutes of black screen, and sometimes at the beginning. However, a few tapes from this duplicator may not have the static roll of death at all.
* Tapes from Goldstar Video’s joint venture with this company said "'''MTX'''" in the top left corner of the face label.
== Locations ==
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==Notes==
* Feature Films for Families referred to the company as simply '''Matrix Video''' on the face labels of tapes duplicated
* In 1992, a few tapes returned by Cinderella Distributors were reused by The Video Company in a 32,500-unit production run of ''The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'' for Scholastic. One such tape was shown by a Salt Lake City classroom a few days before Christmas that year; due to TVC forgetting to erase the originally recorded pornographic material, scandal ensued and the producers of the special sued both TVC and Matrix over the affair.<ref>[https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/4th/64/1306.html Schaefer/Karpf Productions v. CNA Ins. Companies (1998)]</ref>
* Following its liquidation in 1996, its clients at the time, including Disneyland, appear to have been transferred to [[The Duplication Group|Cassette Productions]]. Whether or not its assets were actually sold to Cassette Productions is currently a mystery.
* Its clients appear to have been largely family-oriented and/or centered around Greater Los Angeles.
* This is possibly the only duplicator to have a joint venture with a home video distributor; Goldrix Entertainment, which was a joint venture with [[Goldstar Entertainment, Inc.|Goldstar Video]]. The name of this joint venture is a portmanteau of the two companies' names.
== References ==
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