The CBS/Fox Company (Duplicator): Difference between revisions

This armcompany was originally established in 1967 as Magnetic Video Corporation. Prior to 1977, the company exclusively provided audio duplication. The armcompany was later renamed to 20th Century Fox Video in mid-the spring of 1982 and, later, The CBS/Fox Company, a joint venture between CBS and 20th Century-Fox, in latethe summer of 1982, shortly after the home entertainment subsidiaries of the former company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were split, upon Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's acquisition of United Artists from Transamerica.

** 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, and added Sony Sprinter systems to the plant. BeginningSome intime theafter CBS/Fox switched over to RVSA in springlate ofMarch 1990, the printings became similar to those of Technicolor's California plants.

*** SomeFrom 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.

*** In addition to the above mentioned printings, tapes duplicated using 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 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 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 California. This never applied to tapes released by CBS/Fox, which would switch over to RVSA just a fewcouple of months later but would not start duplicating their product there until that August.