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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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**** 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, 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 decade, following its acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility and name change to Technicolor Videocassette in 1987 and Technicolor Video Services in 1993.
* 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 the West and East Coast areas. This never applied to tapes released by CBS/Fox, which would switch over to RVSA a few months later.
==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>
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* Farmington Hills, Michigan (1967-1986) (moved to Livonia)
* Livonia, Michigan (1986-1987)
[[Category:Duplicators from Michigan]]
[[Category:Macrovision customers]]
[[Category:Vantiva subsidiaries]]
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