Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation

Former names Edit

CBS/Fox Video (1982-1984) (videodiscs only)
- MGM/CBS Home Video (1981-1982) (videodiscs only)
CBS Records/Sony Music Entertainment (1988-1999)
- Sony Kids' Video (1992-1993)
- Sony Music Video (1988-1999)
- Sony Wonder (1993-1999)
  - Random House Home Video (1995-1999)
Hen's Tooth Video
MTV Home Video (1993-1999) (releases marketed by Sony Music Video)
Nickelodeon Home Video/Nickelodeon Video (1993-1996) (releases marketed by Epic Records and Sony Music Video via Sony Wonder)
- Nick Jr. Video (1995-1996)

CBS Records/Sony Music Entertainment (1929-????)
- Columbia Records (1929-????)
- Sony Kids' Music (1992-1993)
- Sony Wonder (1993-????)
- Epic Records (1953-????)
Columbia House (1955-????)
Nickelodeon Audio (1993-1996) (releases marketed by Epic Records via Sony Wonder)
- Nick Jr. Audio (1996)
Walt Disney Records (1990s) (some copies of Sebastian: Party Gras!, perhaps among others)

Most tapes by this duplicator do not have any form of printing on the cassette.
Tapes from this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
Some tapes by this duplicator have a silent white screen test pattern, or sometimes the static roll of death at the end.
Numerous EP/SLP mode tapes from this duplicator had a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the tail-end.
This duplicator has been known to use tape stock from a few different manufacturers and shells from an in-house manufacturer based in Dothan, Alabama. Tapes from mid-1995 to 1997 were recorded on Memorex tape stock.
Tapes from 1998 to 1999 had the Sony logo engraved on the back right of the tape. However, some copies of Arthur's Chicken Pox were recorded on Memorex tape stock.

This is what the back of tapes from 1998 to 1999 looked like. In this picture, the Sony logo is molded on the back right.

Some discs pressed at the company's Terre Haute plant through 1993 have the DADC "D" logo molded onto the clear plastic hub/clamping ring.
In 1988, codes were extended to have six digits: therefore any 6-digit DIDX/DIDP codes (i.e. DIDX 00nnnn) on the face label of the disc or in the matrix can't be earlier than 1988. Sometimes, older CDs originally released without leading zeros (e.g. DIDX-nnnn) were repressed with the new format (DIDX-00nnnn).
Some matrices include 8 crosshair symbols in 1+2+5 format (🝊 🝊🝊 🝊🝊🝊🝊🝊)

AUHD - Hybrid Dual Disc
AUSS - DVD-Audio
BVSS - Single-layer Blu-ray Discs
BVDL - Dual-layer Blu-ray Discs
CDAC - CD-ROM
CDRM - same as CDAC
CPDP - unknown
CPDX - unknown
CPTP - Enhanced CD
CPTX - unknown
CSIG - 3" CD Single
CTDP - unknown
CTDX - unknown
DDHD - same as AUHD
DI8P - unknown
DIBD - BMG Direct Marketing
DIDC - Sony Classical
DIDM - glass masters by Specialty Records Corporation, pressed by Digital Audio Disc Corporation
DIDP - Sony Popular
DIDX - Non-Sony (e.g. Walt Disney Records)
DIDY - Columbia House Record Club
DIPX - Non-Sony (Promos)
DISP - Sony (Promos)
DRSS - DVD-ROM
DVDL - Dual-layer DVD
DVDS - unknown
DVSS - Single-layer DVD
DVXX - unknown
LDVS - Laserdisc
PDSS - PlayStation 2 DVD
PSRM - PlayStation CD
SPLD - Hyprid SACD
SUHD - same as SPLD
SROM - Mini CD
STDP - unknown
STDX - unknown
STLD - same as SPLD and SUHD
SUHD - same as SPLD, SUHD and STLD
SUDL - Dual-layer SACD)
SUSS - Single-layer SACD
USDL - Dual-layer Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs
USTL - Triple-layer Ultra HD Blu-ray discs