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== History ==
This company was originally established in 1967 as Magnetic Video Corporation. Prior to 1977, the company exclusively provided audio duplication. The comapnycompany 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.
 
== List of Customers ==
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*** Sometimes, from 1989-1990, the code would read something like "18789." On some tapes, the code is kind of visible.
**** However on some tapes printed in early 1990, the code would just read something like either "3190" or "3390" instead.
*** 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 couple of months later but would not start duplicating their product there until that August.
 
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