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== History ==
This
== List of Customers ==
* CBS/Fox Video (
** 20th Century-Fox Video (1982)
*** Magnetic Video Corporation (1977-1982)
* CBS Video Library (1982-1987)
* Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment (1981)
* MCA Videocassette, Inc. (1980)
* On Gossamer Wings Productions (1985)
* Paramount Home Video (1979-1981)
* Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company (1987)
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* 1984-1987 tapes duplicated at CBS/Fox would have engraving on the right side of the tape that says "CBS FOX" and printings on the bottom middle side, including a day-year code that is read in either Day/Y0, Day/Y or Day/YY.
** For example, if the day-year code reads "16550", that means the tape was printed on the 165th day of 1985.
** Invisible dark ink printings and white barcode stickers on the side of the tape began in 1986, with the code switched over from "DayY0" to "DayY." VCA/Technicolor continued these printing methods during the next three years, following its acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility and name change to Technicolor Videocassette in 1987
*** From 1987 to 1988, some tapes duplicated using Sony Sprinter systems would have a sticker on the bottom side of the tape with the title, catalog number and label/distributor name. From 1988 to 1995, this was switched over to a barcode sticker on the bottom side of the tape with the distributor/label initialism and catalog number, followed by either a generic initialism or the tape speed initialism and the title. Prior to 1990, the distributor/label initialism, catalog number and generic or tape speed initialism would follow the title; by 1990, this was changed to the title following the distributor/label initialism, catalog number and generic or tape speed initialism.
*** Sometimes, from 1989-1990, the code would read something like "18789." On some tapes, the code is kind of visible.
**** However on some tapes
*** In addition to the above mentioned printings,
* Most tapes printed after late January
==Gallery==
===Farmington Hills plant===
<gallery>
File:MAG 1 Engraving (Can-Can, 1979 Magnetic).jpg|This is what the "MAG 1" etching looks like on the back of tapes duplicated by CBS/Fox Video from 1977 to 1983.
File:CBS-FOX Engraving (CBS-FOX) (Bill Cosby, Himself, 1985 CBS-FOX).jpg|This is what the "CBS FOX" etching looks like on the right side of tapes duplicated by CBS/Fox Video from 1984 to 1987.
File:2AA-96-3634 (The Muppets Take Manhattan, 1985 CBS FOX Video).jpg
</gallery>
===Livonia plant===
<gallery>
File:Bar Code Sticker (CBS-FOX) (A Fistful of Dollars, 1986 CBS-FOX).jpg|This is what the barcode sticker looks like on the left side of tapes duplicated in Livonia, beginning in 1986.
</gallery>
===VBI codes===
<gallery>
File:The Muppets Take Manhattan (1985 CBS FOX Video) (2AA-96-3634).jpg
File:Cocoon (1986 CBS FOX Video) (00AOLZ 1046-1-10-120-A004).jpg
File:Yankee Doodle Dandy (1986 CBS FOX Video) (023VYE 1886-2-46-126-A036 5).jpg
File:Lady and the Tramp (1987 Walt Disney Home Video) (0AGEND 2057-3-32-076-A151 3).jpg|An example of the third example, but with the Macrovision signal.
</gallery>
== Locations ==
* Farmington Hills, Michigan (1967-1986) (moved to Livonia)
* Livonia, Michigan (1986-1987, building later sold by Technicolor and used by battery supplier A123 Systems as their headquarters before it was ultimately demolished for a Beaumont Health medical center)
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