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==History==
== List of Customers ==
* 3-G Home Video (1992-1993) (some tapes)
* Cinderella Distributors
* Disneyland (1994-1996) (one known copy of ''The Lion King Celebration'')
* Feature Films for Families (some tapes)▼
* 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)
* Goldstar Video (1992-1993)
** The Little Red Schoolhouse (1993) (''Mother Goose'' videos)
▲** Goldrix Entertainment (1993)
** 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
* 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>
* 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]]. Like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colex_Enterprises Colex Enterprises] (for '''Co'''lumbia Pictures Television and '''Lex'''ington Broadcast Services Company, later known as LBS Communications), the name of this joint venture is a portmanteau of the two companies' names.
== References ==
[[Category:Duplicators]]
[[Category:Duplicators founded in 1987]]
[[Category:Duplicators closed in 1996]]
[[Category:Duplicators from California]]
[[Category:Macrovision customers]]
[[Category:S-VHS duplicators]]
[[Category:Sony Sprinter customers]]
[[Category:Real time duplicators]]
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