Matrix Video Duplication Corporation

From Home Video

List of Customers

  • Cinderella Distributors
  • Feature Films for Families (some tapes)
  • 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]

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