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== List of Customers ==
== List of Customers ==
* Disneyland (1995-1996)
* Cinderella Distributors
* Feature Films for Families (some tapes)
* Feature Films for Families (1993-19??) (some tapes)
* Focus on the Family (1992-1993)
* Focus on the Family (1992-1993) (seen on Adventures in Odyssey tapes)
* Front Row Entertainment
* Front Row Entertainment
* Goldstar Video (1992-1993)
* Goldstar Video (1992-1993)
** The Little Red Schoolhouse (1993)
** Goldrix Entertainment (1993) (possibly a joint venture for certain tapes duplicated at this company)
*** Goldrix Entertainment (1993)
* Hallmark Home Entertainment
* Leucadia Family Films
* Lightyear Entertainment
* Pamplin Entertainment
* Pamplin Entertainment
* Polynesian Cultural Center (some tapes)
* Polynesian Cultural Center (????-19??) (some tapes)
* Showtime Entertainment
* Showtime Entertainment
* Timeless Video


== How to Tell ==
== 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.
* Not a single tape from this duplicator has any form of printing.
* Numerous tapes from this duplicator have a record tab intact.
* Numerous tapes from this duplicator have a record tab intact.
* Most tapes from this duplicator have the static roll of death at the end, and sometimes at the beginning. However, a few tapes from this duplicator may not have the static roll of death at all.
* Some may have the static roll of death at the end.
* Occasionally, a few tapes from this duplicator had some extra black screen following the blank space at the end.
* Rare tapes from this duplicator uses a fading rainbow, following the static at the very end.
* Goldstar Video tapes by this duplicator under the Goldrix Entertainment label said “'''MTX'''” in the top left corner of the label.
* Goldstar Video tapes by this duplicator under the Goldrix Entertainment label said “MTX” in the top left corner of the label.


==Gallery==
<gallery>
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File:Matrix Video Duplication Corporation.png|The company's logo
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== Locations ==
== Locations ==
TBD
* Los Angeles, California

==Notes==
==Notes==
* Feature Films for Families referred to the company as simply '''Matrix Video''' on the labels of tapes duplicated by the company.
* 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>

== References ==

[[Category:Duplicators]]
[[Category:Duplicators closed in 1996]]
[[Category:Duplicators from California]]
[[Category:S-VHS duplicators]]
[[Category:Sony Sprinter customers]]

Revision as of 18:25, 28 January 2024

List of Customers

  • Disneyland (1995-1996)
  • 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)
    • The Little Red Schoolhouse (1993)
      • Goldrix Entertainment (1993)
  • Hallmark Home Entertainment
  • Leucadia Family Films
  • Lightyear Entertainment
  • Pamplin Entertainment
  • Polynesian Cultural Center (????-19??) (some tapes)
  • Showtime Entertainment

How to Tell

  • Not a single tape from this duplicator has any form of printing.
  • Numerous tapes from this duplicator have a record tab intact.
  • Some may have the static roll of death at the end.
  • Rare tapes from this duplicator uses a fading rainbow, following the static at the very end.
  • Goldstar Video tapes by this duplicator under the Goldrix Entertainment label said “MTX” in the top left corner of the label.

Gallery

  • The company's logo

    The company's logo

Locations

TBD

Notes

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