Premiere Video

History[edit]

List of Customers[edit]

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (some copies of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Miracle on 34th Street, and Casper Meets Wendy, as well as some Canadian copies of Independence Day)
Acorn Media
Anchor Bay Entertainment (2000-2004)
A-PIX Entertainment (1996) (one known copy of Outrage)
Behaviour Distribution (1998) (one known copy of a viewing copy of Whatever)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment (1996-1999)
- Touchstone Home Video (1999) (some copies of Home Improvement: The Series Finale)
- ABC Video (1995-2000) (some tapes, including some copies of School House Rock! tapes)
- ESPN Home Video (1995-1998) (some tapes)
Cabin Fever Entertainment
Chris Fesko Enterprises
Coliseum Video
Columbia House (198?-200?)
Columbia TriStar Home Video (some copies of Big Daddy)
Fox Lorber Home Video
Forum Home Video (1993-1996)
Funny Fowl, Inc. (some copies of The Chicken's Greatest Bits)
Gaiam
Gateway Films Vision Video (1995-2004)
Goldsholl: Learning Videos (1996)
Haber Video (199?-????)
Healing Arts Publishing
Ignatius Press Video (1997-1999)
Image Entertainment
Kultur Video
Lionel L.L.C. (one known copy of Lionel: Ready-to-Run Train Set Instructional Video)
Live Home Video (1990-1999) (some copies of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Total Recall)
- Family Home Entertainment (1990-1999)
Madacy Entertainment Group (1998)
MCA/Universal Home Video (some copies of Beethoven's 2nd, Field of Dreams and Peter and Paul, and some tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club)
Morning Light Media
MPI Home Video (1984-1998)
Mystic Fire Video
National Geographic (1998-2004)
Nelson Entertainment (1986-1990)
- Charter Entertainment
- Embassy Home Entertainment
New Line Home Video (1991, 1998) (some copies of The Wedding Singer and Lost in Space and some tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club)
New Horizons Home Video (1998) (some demo tapes)
NFL Films Video
Orion Home Video (1987-1992)
Pacific Arts Video (1992)
Paramount Home Entertainment (1993-200?) (some copies of Wayne's World sponsored by McDonald's and some tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club)
- Nickelodeon Home Video (1998, 2003-2004) (some copies of Blue's Clues: Arts and Crafts marketed by Paramount Home Video, plus The Wild Thornberrys tapes marketed by National Geographic)
Random House Home Video (1995-1998; distributed by Sony Wonder)
Republic Pictures Home Video (some copies of The Golden Stallion)
Segments of Knowledge Productions (1994)
Shiny Entertainment (1998) (one known copy of Wild 9 - Confidential: Secrets of Wild 9 Inside!)
Showtime Networks (1998) (one known copy of an academy screener tape for Lolita)
Sony Music Entertainment (1995-1998)
- Columbia Music Video (1995-1998)
- Sony Wonder (1995-1998)
Standard Publishing (2002) (one known copy of God Rocks!: Ten Rockin' Rules ...or Wakin' up is hard to do)
TM Books & Video (200?-2004)
Troma Team Video (1996-1999)
Trylon Video
Turner Home Entertainment (1987-1992)
- RKO Home Video (1984-1987)
Universal Studios Home Video (1999) (some copies of Notting Hill)
VCI Home Video (1986-1992)
- United Home Video
Virgin Vision (1987-1990)
Vision Video
Warner Home Video (1989-200?) (some copies of Batman and Joe Versus the Volcano and some tapes sold through the Columbia House Video Club)
Warner Music Enterprises (1994)
WarnerVision Entertainment (1995)
- BodyVision (1995)
- KidVision (1995)
- Saban Home Video (1995) (some Mighty Morphin Power Rangers tapes)
Wellspring Media (1999-2003)
Winstar TV & Video
WWE Home Video (1998-2004)
Xenon Pictures (2001)

How to Tell[edit]

The earliest tapes had "PREM" engraved on the back of the tape shell. There was also a white stamping on the back as well.
Tapes printed in EP/SLP during the early '90s would have a red tape guard. At this time, inked-label tapes would have the label text colored yellow.
Tapes printed in the mid-to-late 80's would have dark printings on the left side of the tape like these for example:

013868 T-130

Tapes printed in the late '80s to mid '90s had engravings on the left side of the tape like these for example:

295422

120_29

Some tapes had the engravings like this:

PAR

_48_

Others had the engravings on the tape guard and like this:

064689

165OHV

Tapes printed in the mid '90s and onwards would have a bunch of numbers, including a dark transparent number, engraved on the left side of the tape.
- Tapes printed for Deluxe customers had the information etched onto one side of the cassette shell like this, for example:

MCA-423-22837

- - Some tapes simply had the Deluxe initialism (e.g. RVS (RVSA) or DLX) etched onto the side.
- Tapes printed during the last few years of this duplicator's existence would additionally have an inked barcode with a whole lot of numbers (including the tape's catalog number or some elements of the title on some tapes), printed on the tape guard.
Starting around the early 90's, some tapes (mainly EP/SLP tapes) had a set of eight numbers in the vertical blanking interval, usually with a clock next to it. Most of these tapes had a few additional seconds of black screen and the "fading rainbow" following the blank space at the very end. On some SP mode tapes from 2000-2001 with these credentials in the vertical blanking interval, the static roll of death appeared following the blank space at the very end, while it appeared before the blank space on several other tapes. Some early tapes with these credentials do not have any form of printing on the cassette, but starting a few years later, some tapes with the normal printings of the time had these credentials (mainly EP/SLP mode tapes, although this sometimes happened on SP mode tapes as well).
One known copy of Terminator 2: Judgment Day by this duplicator said RVSA\PVI in the vertical blanking interval.

Gallery[edit]

An ad for the company, circa 1988
An ad for the company, circa 1989
An ad for the company, circa 1990
An ad for the company
An ad from the company's 15th anniversary
Several copies of Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! on an assembly line at one of Premiere's plants.
This is an example of what the earliest printings on tapes by this duplicator looked like.
This is an example of what the printings on tapes by this duplicator looked like.
This is an example of what the printings on tapes by this duplicator looked like in the early '90s.
An example of what the engraved numbers looked like on tapes from the mid 90's to the final years of the company's existence.
This is an example of what the printings on tapes by this duplicator from a few RVSA clients looked like.
Some copies of Big Daddy and Notting Hill by this duplicator had Deluxe's tape guard engravings etched on the side of the cassette, accompanied by more printings.
On some tapes, the engraved side printings mentioned the film or program title.
On others, the distributor or another related entity.
On some tapes with the inked barcode, only the dark transparent number was present.
An example of what the inked barcode looks like.
There were a few tapes where there were no numbers on the left of the barcode.
An example of one version of the vertical blanking interval on some tapes.
An example of another version of the vertical blanking interval on some tapes.
On some tapes, the numbers appear bigger.
On some earlier tapes with the eight numbers and the clock, there is a forward slash instead of another number.
Some tapes didn't have a clock next to the eight numbers.
This is what the VBI on tapes from this company for RVSA customers was like, with the Macrovision signal in it.
This appeared in the vertical blanking interval of some copies of Big Daddy, Blue's Clues: Arts and Crafts, Casper Meets Wendy and Notting Hill that were duplicated by this company.