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[[File:Matrix Video Duplication Corporation.pngjpg|The company's logothumb]]
== List of Customers ==
* Cinderella Distributors
* Feature Films for Families (1993-19??) (some tapes)
* Focus on the Family (1992-1993) (seen on "Adventures in Odyssey" tapes)
* Front Row Entertainment
* Goldstar Video (1992-1993)
** TheGoldrix Little Red SchoolhouseEntertainment (1993)
*** Goldrix Entertainment (1993)
* Hallmark Home Entertainment
* Leucadia Family Films
* Lightyear Entertainment
* Pamplin Entertainment
* Polynesian Cultural Center (????-19??) (some tapes)
* Showtime Entertainment
* Timeless Video
 
== How to Tell ==
* Not a single tapeTapes from this duplicator hasdo not have any form of printing on the cassette, nor do they have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
* Some tapesmay have the recordstatic tabroll intactof death at the end, while mostsome omitdon’t have itanything.
* Some Goldstar Video tapes duplicatedunder bythe thisGoldrix companyEntertainment label said '''MTX'''” in the top left corner onof the label.
* Several pre-1993 tapes duplicated in EP/SLP have the static roll of death at the end.
* Some tapes may have the record tab intact.
* Rare tapes from this duplicator uses a fading rainbow, following the static at the very end.
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Matrix Video Duplication Corporation.png|The company's logo
</gallery>
== Locations ==
* Los Angeles, California
TBD
 
==Notes==
* Feature Films for Families referred to the company as simply '''Matrix Video''' on the labels of tapes duplicated by the company.
* 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>
* Some Goldstar Video tapes duplicated by this company said '''MTX''' on the label.
 
== References ==
 
[[Category:Duplicators]]
[[Category:Sony Sprinter customers]]
[[Category:Duplicators from California]]
[[Category:Duplicators closed in 1996]]

Revision as of 04:18, 24 December 2023

List of Customers

  • Cinderella Distributors
  • Feature Films for Families (some tapes)
  • Focus on the Family (1992-1993)
  • Front Row Entertainment
  • Goldstar Video (1992-1993)
    • Goldrix Entertainment (1993)
  • Pamplin Entertainment
  • Polynesian Cultural Center (some tapes)
  • Showtime Entertainment
  • 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.
  • Some may have the static roll of death at the end, while some don’t have anything.
  • Some Goldstar Video tapes under the Goldrix Entertainment label said “MTX” in the top left corner of the label.
  • Some tapes may have the record tab intact.

Locations

  • Los Angeles, California

Notes

  • Feature Films for Families referred to the company as simply Matrix Video on the labels of tapes duplicated by the company.
  • 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]

References