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== List of Customers == |
== List of Customers == |
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* ESPN Home Video (Sports Blooper Awards, College Hoop Bloops, and College Football Funnies) |
* ESPN Home Video (Sports Blooper Awards, College Hoop Bloops, and College Football Funnies) |
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* Feature Films for Families (1993-19??) (some tapes) |
* Feature Films for Families (1993-19??) (some tapes) |
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* Focus on the Family (1992-1993) ( |
* Focus on the Family (1992-1993) (Adventures in Odyssey tapes) |
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* Front Row Entertainment |
* Front Row Entertainment |
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* Goldstar Video (1992-1993) |
* Goldstar Video (1992-1993) |
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** The Little Red Schoolhouse (1993) (''Mother Goose'' videos) |
** The Little Red Schoolhouse (1993) (''Mother Goose'' videos) |
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** Goldrix Entertainment (1993) (a joint venture |
** Goldrix Entertainment (1993) (a joint venture with this company) |
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* Gospel Light |
* Gospel Light |
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* Hallmark Home Entertainment |
* Hallmark Home Entertainment |
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* Pamplin Entertainment |
* Pamplin Entertainment |
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* Polynesian Cultural Center (????-19??) (some tapes) |
* Polynesian Cultural Center (????-19??) (some tapes) |
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* Random House Home Video (1991-1993) (tapes sold through Goldstar Video) |
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* Showtime Entertainment |
* Showtime Entertainment |
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* Streamline Pictures (1990-1991) |
* Streamline Pictures (1990-1991) |
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* Numerous tapes from this duplicator have a record tab intact. |
* Numerous tapes from this duplicator have a record tab intact. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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* Occasionally, a few tapes from this duplicator had some extra black screen following the blank space at the end. |
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== Locations == |
== Locations == |
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==Notes== |
==Notes== |
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* Feature Films for Families referred to the company as simply '''Matrix Video''' on the labels of tapes duplicated |
* Feature Films for Families referred to the company as simply '''Matrix Video''' on the face labels of tapes duplicated there. |
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* 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> |
* 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> |
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* 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. |
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* Its clients appear to have been largely family-oriented and/or centered around Greater Los Angeles. |
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* 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. |
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== References == |
== References == |
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[[Category:S-VHS duplicators]] |
[[Category:S-VHS duplicators]] |
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[[Category:Sony Sprinter customers]] |
[[Category:Sony Sprinter customers]] |
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[[Category:Real time duplicators]] |
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Revision as of 00:29, 27 June 2024
List of Customers
- 3-G Home Video (1992-1993) (some tapes)
- Cinderella Distributors
- Disneyland (1995-1996)
- Edde Entertainment (19??-19??) (some tapes)
- ESPN Home Video (Sports Blooper Awards, College Hoop Bloops, and College Football Funnies)
- Feature Films for Families (1993-19??) (some tapes)
- 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)
- Gospel Light
- Hallmark Home Entertainment
- Leucadia Family Films
- Lightyear Entertainment
- 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)
- Timeless Video
How to Tell
- Tapes from this duplicator do not have any form of printing on the cassette, nor do they have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
- 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
- Los Angeles, California
Notes
- Feature Films for Families referred to the company as simply Matrix Video on the face labels of tapes duplicated there.
- 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.[1]
- Following its liquidation in 1996, its clients at the time, including Disneyland, appear to have been transferred to 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 Video. The name of this joint venture is a portmanteau of the two companies' names.