Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation

From Home Video

Former names

  • CBS Manufacturing Company (1929-1991) (plants acquired with CBS Records)

List of Home Media Customers

  • 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 Sony Wonder)
    • Nick Jr. Video (1995-1996)

List of Audio Customers

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

How to Tell for Home Media Releases

  • 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.

    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.

How to Tell for Audio Releases

Locations

  • Anif, Salzburg (1987-2019)
  • Carrollton, Georgia (1978-2001) (originated with CBS Records)
  • Manaus, Amazonas (1992-????)
  • Mumbai, Maharashtra (1992-????)
  • Pitman, New Jersey (1961-2011) (originated with CBS Records)
  • Springfield, Oregon (1995-2003)
  • Terre Haute, Indiana (1983-2022)
  • Thalgau, Salzburg (1991-present)
  • Tlalnepantla, Distrito Federal (1994-2015)
  • Toronto, Ontario (1994-2011)
  • Westlake Village, California
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