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== History ==
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== List of Customers ==
* CBS/Fox Video (19771982-1987)
** 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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== How to Tell ==
* Tapes that were duplicated at Magnetic Video Corporation would have "MAG1" engraved on the back of the tape.
* 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.
* 1985-1987 tapes duplicated at CBS/Fox would have 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 left 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, and added Sony Sprinter systems to the plant. Some time after CBS/Fox switched over to RVSA in late March 1990, the printings became similar to those of Technicolor's California plants.
*** 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 early 1989 to late -1990, the code would read something like "18789." On some tapes, the code is kind of visible.
*** In addition to the above mentioned printings, SP mode tapes would have a code on the left (prior to 1986) or the right (after 1986) of the vertical-blanking interval that begins with "MV-GARD" (pre-1978), "MAG" (1978-1980), "MAGVID" (1980-1982), "FOXVID" (1982-1984), "CBSFOX" (1984-1986) or "CFV" (1986-1987). VCA/Technicolor continued this code method, rather beginning with "TVC," for the next one decade, following its acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility and name change to Technicolor Videocassette in 1987 and Technicolor Video Services in 1993.▼
**** However on some tapes printed in early 1990, the code would just read something like either "3190" or "3390" instead.
* Most tapes printed after January 30, 1990, more than two years after Technicolor's acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility, would have an engraving on the left or right side that indicates the company that distributed it, identical to the engraving on either side of tapes duplicated at Technicolor in Newbury Park and New York City. This never applied to tapes released by CBS/Fox.▼
▲*** In addition to the above mentioned printings, SPtapes modeduplicated tapesusing Otari TMD systems would have a code on the left (prior to 1986) or the right (after 1986) of the vertical-blanking interval that begins with "MV-GARD" (pre-1978), "MAG" (1978-1980), "MAGVID" (1980-1982), "FOXVID" (1982-1984), "CBSFOX" (1984-1986) or "CFV" (1986-1987). VCA/Technicolor Videocassette continued this code method, rather beginning with "TVC," for the next one decade, following its acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility and its name change to Technicolor Videocassette in 1987 and Technicolor Video Services in 1993.
▲* Most tapes printed after late January 30, 1990, more than two years after Technicolor's acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility, would have an engraving on the left or right side that indicates the company that distributed it, identical to the engraving on either side of tapes duplicated at Technicolor in Newbury Park and New York CityCalifornia. This never applied to tapes released by CBS/Fox, which would switch over to RVSA just a couple of months later but would not start duplicating their product there until that August.
 
==Gallery==
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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
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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.
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== 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)
* Livonia, Michigan (1986-1987)
 
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