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This company is also known as Hauppage Manufacturing Group (HMG). |
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== History == |
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The company was founded in 1981 as Hauppauge Record Manufacturing (a record duplicator), and produced over 100,000 vinyl records per day. In 1983, Hauppage Record Manufacturing formed Hauppauge Tape Manufacturing to serve the Audio marketplace. In 1994, HMG's Audio Division manufactured over 55 million cassettes for major record labels, independents and corporations. In 1985, the company expanded to video duplication, as Hauppauge Video Manufacturing. In September 1993, HMG opened an optical disc manufacturing plant, replicating CD-Audio and CD-ROMs. That same year, HMG became a publicly traded corporation and was renamed HMG Digital Technologies Corp. In January of 1995, [[Allied Digital|Allied Film and Video]] and HMG Digital Technologies merged to become Allied Digital Technologies. The merger of Allied and HMG cemented its position as the nation's leading supplier of video, audio, CD and CD-ROM duplication to the non-theatrical market -- including corporate, special interest, educational, religious and children's programming.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20020806103644/http://www.alliedvaughn.com/adt_h_1.shtml</ref> |
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== List of Customers == |
== List of Customers == |
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* ABC Video (198?-199?) |
* ABC Video (198?-199?) |
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** Kid Vision (1994) |
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* BMG Video |
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** Zoom Express/BMG Kidz (1993) |
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* Illuminated Film Company/Scholastic (1993) |
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* Island Visual Arts (1991) |
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* MGM/UA Home Video (1986-1990) |
* MGM/UA Home Video (1986-1990) |
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* Sony Music Entertainment (199?-199?) |
* Sony Music Entertainment (199?-199?) |
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** Sony Wonder ( |
** Sony Wonder (1993) |
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*** Random House Home Video (199?-199?) |
*** Random House Home Video (199?-199?) |
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* Saban Entertainment/Fox Kids Network (1993) (X-Men: Creator's Choice 2) |
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** The Little Red Schoolhouse (1993) |
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== How to Tell == |
== How to Tell == |
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* Some tapes may have shuffling color/black-and-white bars and |
* Some tapes may have shuffling color/black-and-white bars and sometimes color static. |
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* Not a single tape from this duplicator has any form of printing on the cassette. |
* Not a single tape from this duplicator has any form of printing on the cassette. |
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* Some SP mode tapes duplicated by this company from 1990-1994 generally had three, four, five, six or seven rectangles in the vertical blanking interval. |
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* Some EP mode tapes duplicated by this company generally had a capital H in the vertical blanking interval. |
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* Some Goldstar Video tapes duplicated by this company said "HMG" on the label. |
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==Gallery== |
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<gallery> |
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File:The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories by Eric Carle (1993 Illuminated Film Company).jpg |
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File:My Brother's Wife (1994 A-PIX Entertainment).jpg |
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File:Posse (Demo VHS) (1993 PolyGram Video).jpg |
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File:There Goes a Train (1994 KidVision) (Part 1).jpg |
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</gallery> |
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== Locations == |
== Locations == |
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* Hauppauge, New York |
* Hauppauge, New York |
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==Notes== |
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* Goldstar Video, Goldstar Entertainment and Camelot Entertainment would put '''HMG''' on the top left corner or the bottom right of the label, representing Hauppauge Manufacturing Group. |
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Revision as of 06:41, 24 August 2023
This company is also known as Hauppage Manufacturing Group (HMG).
History
The company was founded in 1981 as Hauppauge Record Manufacturing (a record duplicator), and produced over 100,000 vinyl records per day. In 1983, Hauppage Record Manufacturing formed Hauppauge Tape Manufacturing to serve the Audio marketplace. In 1994, HMG's Audio Division manufactured over 55 million cassettes for major record labels, independents and corporations. In 1985, the company expanded to video duplication, as Hauppauge Video Manufacturing. In September 1993, HMG opened an optical disc manufacturing plant, replicating CD-Audio and CD-ROMs. That same year, HMG became a publicly traded corporation and was renamed HMG Digital Technologies Corp. In January of 1995, Allied Film and Video and HMG Digital Technologies merged to become Allied Digital Technologies. The merger of Allied and HMG cemented its position as the nation's leading supplier of video, audio, CD and CD-ROM duplication to the non-theatrical market -- including corporate, special interest, educational, religious and children's programming.[1]
List of Customers
- ABC Video (198?-199?)
- A-Pix Entertainment (1994)
- A-Vision Entertainment (1993)
- Kid Vision (1994)
- BMG Video
- Zoom Express/BMG Kidz (1993)
- Goldstar Video (1993) (some tapes)
- Illuminated Film Company/Scholastic (1993)
- Island Visual Arts (1991)
- PolyGram Video (199?-199?)
- MGM/UA Home Video (1986-1990)
- Sony Music Entertainment (199?-199?)
- Sony Wonder (1993)
- Random House Home Video (199?-199?)
- Sony Wonder (1993)
- Saban Entertainment/Fox Kids Network (1993) (X-Men: Creator's Choice 2)
How to Tell
- Some tapes may have shuffling color/black-and-white bars and sometimes color static.
- Not a single tape from this duplicator has any form of printing on the cassette.
- Some SP mode tapes duplicated by this company from 1990-1994 generally had three, four, five, six or seven rectangles in the vertical blanking interval.
- Some EP mode tapes duplicated by this company generally had a capital H in the vertical blanking interval.
- Some Goldstar Video tapes duplicated by this company said "HMG" on the label.
Gallery
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Locations
- Hauppauge, New York