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==History==
TBD
The company's origins date back to 1987 when [[Media Home Entertainment]], a subsidiary of Heron International, spun-off its video duplication arm. As part of the spin-off, Media Home Entertainment had a multi-year duplication contract with this company.
 
==Former names==
* West Coast Video Duplicating, Inc. (1987-1996)
 
==List of Customers==
* 3:13 Productions (2000)
* Anime Village
* ABC Video Enterprises (1991-1992) (tapes sold through Simon Marketing)
* A.I.P. Home Video (1990-1992)
* Bandai Entertainment (2000-2001)
** Anime Village
* Central Park Media
** U.S. Manga Corps (2001)
* Columbia House Video (1987-2002)
* Columbia House (1987-2005)
* HIT Entertainment (2001-2002) (''Bob the Builder'' and ''Kipper'' tapes)
* Columbia TriStar Home Video (1990-1996) (screener copies)
** Lyrick Studios (1993-1995, 2001) (in 2001, only for ''Bob the Builder'' and ''Kipper'' tapes)
* JesusEmshell Home Video Project(1994)
* LiveFox EntertainmentLorber Home Video (1997) (some copies of ''Paula Abdul: Get Up and Dance''Tetsuo andthe ''TheIron Substitute''Man)
* Globalstage Productions (1999)
* HIT Entertainment (2001-2002) (''Bob the Builder'', ''Kipper'' and ''Angelina Ballerina'' tapes)
** Lyrick Studios (2000-2001) (''Bob the Builder'', ''Kipper'' and ''Angelina Ballerina'' tapes)
*** The Lyons Group (1992-1996)
* J2 Communications (1991-1992) (some tapes, including ''The Star Wars Trilogy Animated Collection, Volume 1'' sold through Simon Marketing)
* J & N Media (2002)
* Jesus Video Project (some copies of ''Jesus'')
* kaBOOM! Entertainment Inc. (2001-2004)
* Live Entertainment/Artisan Entertainment (some copies of ''Paula Abdul: Get Up and Dance'' and ''The Substitute'' and some tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club)
** Family Home Entertainment (1990) (some copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tapes sold through the Burger King Kids' Club)
* Major League Baseball Home Video
* MCA Music Video
* McDonald's (2000-2001) (The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Birthday World and Have Time, Will Travel)
* MGM Home Entertainment (1990-2004)
** Orion Home Video (1987199?-1998)
** Fries Home Video (1987-1989)
* Miramar Productions (1992-1993)
* MPI Home Video (1991-????)
* New Horizons Home Video
* Pacific Arts Video
* Paramount Home Entertainment (1990-2005) (some tapes, particularly tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club)
** Nickelodeon Home Entertainment (some tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club)
* Pioneer Entertainment (1994-2000)
* PolyGram Video
* PPI Entertainment (2002)
* Prism Entertainment
* Random House Home Video (1991-1992) (''The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners'', sold through Simon Marketing)
* Saban (2000) (Power Rangers in 3-D)
* Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment
* Silverado Productions
* Simon Marketing (1991-1992) (''The Berenstain Bears'' and ''The Star Wars Trilogy Animated Collection'' tapes)
* Simitar Entertainment (1990) (some copies of ''Fighter Aces of World War II'')
* South Gate Entertainment (1991) (one known copy of ''Julia Has Two Lovers'')
* SyberVision
* Tai Seng Video Marketing (1996-1997)
* Video Treasures (1994)
** Media Home Entertainment (1990-1993)
** Strand Home Video (1992-1994)
** Media Home Entertainment (1987-1993)
* Vidmark Entertainment
* Viz Video
* Warner Home Video (1989-1992) (some copies of ''Batman'' and ''Batman Returns'' and some tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club)
** Turner Home Entertainment (1987199?-1997)
*** Hanna-Barbera Home Video (1992)
** New Line Home Video (1991-1997)
* Wolfe Video (1998) (one known copy of ''Thin Ice'')
*** Nelson Entertainment (1987-1991)
* World Wide Pictures Home Video
* Xenon Entertainment Group (1998)
 
==How to Tell==
* By around 1989,Most VHS tapes duplicated by West Coast Video Duplicating (later MediaCopy, Inc.)here have visible ink information on the bottom middle side of the tape that is printed in a couplevariety of different colors, but sometimes the color of the printings is invisible, like dark purple, for example.
** Until 1990, the printings were laid out like the following examples:
** The information on the tape includes the print date and time on the right. Next to the print date and time are letters that say "WCV" (1989-1991), "WCVD" (1991-1996) or MCI (post-1996). On tapes with a different color cassette, the color and style of the printing varied.
 
Example 1:
 
'''27A1 15000 10119'''
'''T-130 20:19'''
 
Example 2:
 
'''TMD-EP 15833 27842 12490'''
'''21A2 APRIL FOOLISH W/COMMERCIAL 22:15'''
 
Example 3:
 
'''T-59 106813/WC0634 31590'''
'''21A2 WCVD 17:41'''
 
Example 4:
 
'''T-130 <big>BATMAN</big> WCVD15000 20:33'''
'''27A1 10169'''
 
Example 5:
 
'''T-52 110737/F0176 51790'''
'''71A3 WCVD 09:26'''
 
** The information on the tape includes the print date and time on the right. Next to the print date and time are letters that usually indicate the duplicator (though on some tapes, they indicate the distributor). This was usually followed by a catalog number and, optionally, the tape speed's initialism. On tapes with a different color cassette, the color and style of the printing varied.
*** For example, if the print date/time is numbered "020795 1358", then that means the specific VHS tape was printed on February 7, 1995 at 1:58 PM.
** Until January 1990, as seen in the first example above, the date was in MM/DD/Y format. From January to September 1990, the date was in M/DD/YY format.
*** On tapes distributed in Canada by Orion Home Video through J.L. Bowerbank & Associates, the letters would say "JLB".
* On tapes distributed bySome Fries Home Video tapes duplicated here prior to 1989, the front tape label would saysaid "'''WCV'''" (1988-1989) or "'''WCVD'''" (1989) onin the bottom right corner of the face label.
* In addition, tapes duplicated at this company also have two differenta length codescode on the left of the information:. onOn pre-1996 tapes, the nominal length is above the record tab (usually broken off), while on post-1996 tapes, it is on the bottom label portion. withOn asome sidetapes labelprinted digitusing onOtari thermal magnetic duplication systems, the middlelength was preceded by the letters "TMDSP" or "TMDEP".
* After 1996, tapes duplicated at MediaCopy, Inc. would have an engraving on the left side that indicates the company that distributed it.
* EP/SLP tapes from this duplicator usually lack hi-fi sound.
* Tapes from this duplicator, that say "TMDEP" or "TMDSP" in the printings, had a few additional seconds of black screen following the blank space at the very end.
* Some EP/SLP (TMDEP) tapes from this duplicator may lack a hi-fi audio track; others may include it.
* Some tapes with the tape speed’s initialism (e.g. T-120) in the printings, end abruptly.
* Very rarely, a tape printed here may have a silent white screen test pattern at the end.
* Tapes duplicated by this company's Los Angeles locations had a print date in dark ink, like this for example:
 
'''T-48 99-3M 082195 M'''
'''1142 P'''
 
* But instead, on some New Line Home Video demo tapes, there were white printings above the recording tab spot, like this for example:
 
'''T-127'''
 
'''CS'''
 
* Tapes from the Los Angeles locations also had white printings on the left side of the tape, like this for example:
 
'''PA12220 01'''
 
'''0445 150619'''
 
==Known abbreviation letter codes==
* 131 - tapes sold through Columbia House Video Club (1996-2003)
* MGM/UA - pre-1999 tapes released under the MGM/UA Home Video label(1996-1999)
* MGM - post-1999 tapes released under the MGM Home Entertainment label(1999-2004)
* WHV - Warner Home Video (1989-1997), Turner Home Entertainment (1997)
* WHV - 1997 tapes released under the respective subsidiaries of Warner Home Video
* OHV - tapes released by Orion Home Video (1996-1999)
* TURNER - Turner Home Entertainment (199?-1997)
 
==Known lotstock number prefix codes==
* WCVD (1988- tapes printed between 1990 and 1996)
* MCI - tapes printed between (1996 and 2001-2002)
* INFO (2002- tapes printed after 20012005)
* JLB - tapes released by J.L. Bowerbank & Associates in Canada(199?-199?)
* PAR - Paramount Home Video (1998)
 
==Gallery==
===West Coast Video Duplicating, Inc.===
<gallery>
File:West Coast Video Duplicating, Inc..jpg
File:Dark Ink Label (West Coast Video Duplicating) Ad (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, 1993 MGM1989).jpg|An examplead of whatfor the darkcompany, inkcirca printing looks like from 1991 to 1996.1989
File:Dark Ink Label (West Coast Video Duplicating), Inc. Ad (Tales1990).jpg|An ofad Terrorfor the company, 1994circa Orion)1990.jpg|Same exampleWhere asthis picturewas #2found, exceptit thewas split into two pages, so they're combined lettersin readthis "JLB"image.
File:West Coast Video Duplicating Ad (1991).jpg|An ad for the company, circa 1991
File:BATMAN WCVD.jpg|An example of what the dark ink printings looked like on some, but not all, early tapes prior to 1990.
File:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - April Foolish (1990 Family Home Entertainment).jpg|An example of what the printings on tapes from early 1990 look like.
File:Dark Ink Label (West Coast Video Duplicating) (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, 1993 MGM).jpg|An example of what the dark ink printings looked like from late 1990 to 1996.
File:Dark Ink Label (West Coast Video Duplicating) (Tales of Terror, 1994 Orion).jpg|Same example as picture #3, except the letters read "JLB".
File:Barney Live! in New York City.jpg
File:082195 (Flesh & Stone).jpg|This is an example of what print dates on tapes printed in Los Angeles looked like. It may be hard to see in this capture.
File:Flesh & Stone.jpg|This is an example of what the white printings on the left side of tapes printed in Los Angeles looked like.
File:FX2 (1994 Orion Home Video) (100694).jpg|While most tapes by West Coast Video Duplicating didn't usually have anything in the vertical blanking interval, a few Orion Home Video tapes in EP/SLP mode had information like this in the vertical blanking interval.
</gallery>
 
===MediaCopy, Inc.===
<gallery>
File:MediaCopy.jpg
File:VD5.jpg|Tapes on an assembly line at one of the company's plants.
File:Ink Label (MediaCopy, Inc.) (Attack of the Puppet People, 2000 MGM).jpg|An example of what the ink printing looks like from 1996 to 2001.
File:131 (Stargate, 2001 Live Entertainment).jpg
File:MGM UA (Follow That Dream, 1997 MGM UA Home Video).jpg
File:MGM (Little Caesar, 1998 MGM UA Home Video).jpg
File:TURNER (The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996 New Line Home Video).jpg
File:The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996 New Line Home Video).jpg| An example of what the ink printings looked like on some mid-late 1996 tapes.
File:Ink Label (MediaCopy, Inc.) (Attack of the Puppet People, 2000 MGM).jpg|An example of what the ink printings looked like from late 1996 to 2002.
File:Friends (021397).jpg
File:The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald - Have Time, Will Travel (2001 McDonald's) (eBay Photo).jpg
File:The Princess Bride (2003 MGM Home Entertainment).jpg|An example of what the ink printings looked like from 2002 to 2003.
File:Together (2003 MGM Home Entertainment).jpg|An example of what the ink printings looked like from 2003 to 2005.
File:K-19 - The Widowmaker (2004 Paramount Home Entertainment).jpg|On some 2004 tapes, the printings did not say '''INFO'''.
</gallery>
 
==Locations==
* Beverly Hills, California (199?-????)
* Brisbane, California (1987-1995) (moved to San Leandro)
* Culver City, California (19871990-199?) (acquired from Media Home Entertainment, moved to Beverly Hills)
* El Paso, Texas (1998-2004)
* Juarez, Chihuahua (1998-2004)
* San Leandro, California (1995-20022001)
 
==Website==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20011201000000*/mediacopy.com mediacopy.com] (via the WayBack Machine)
 
==Trivia==
* Some tapes with the company's WC initialism on the printing on the tape spine, specifically Strand Home Video tapes pressed in late 1994, were instead duplicated at [[Vantiva Supply Chain Services|Technicolor Video Services]], possibly as a result of Video Treasures being Strand Home Video's distributor in the US at the time.
* In May 1994, West Coast Video Duplicating sued Michael Nesmith for $4.8 million due to unpaid bills for video duplication services. According to court records, the actual amount was $2.4 million. Since the invoices clearly showed his company liable for the services, Nesmith and his lawyers opted for a trial with a jury in an attempt to delay the proceedings while he tried to win a lawsuit with PBS.
 
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