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* 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.
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==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>
File:CBSFOX-3 (The Muppets Take Manhattan).jpg|This is an example of what the vertical-blanking interval looked like on tapes duplicated by CBS/Fox Video from 1984 to 1986.
 
File:CBSFOX N (Casablanca).png|Sometimes, the 1984-1986 incarnation of the vertical-blanking interval ended with a letter instead of a dash and a number.
===Livonia plant===
File:CFV 3 (On Golden Pond VBI).jpg
<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>
File:CFV 4 (Sleeper).png|This is an example of what the vertical-blanking interval looked like on tapes duplicated in Livonia, beginning in 1986.
 
File:CFV 1 (Places in the Heart).jpg|This is an example of what the vertical-blanking interval looked like on tapes duplicated in Livonia, beginning in 1986, with Macrovision encoding intact.
===VBI codes===
File:CFV 14 (Lady and the Tramp).png|Same example as picture #9, this time ending with 14.
<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>
 
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* Farmington Hills, Michigan (1967-1986) (moved to Livonia)
* Livonia, Michigan (1986-1987)
 
[[Category:Duplicators from Michigan]]
[[Category:Macrovision customers]]
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