The Complete History of Home Video
1977
- Magnetic Video Corporation became the first company to release films on videocassette.
1978
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1981
1982
1983
1984
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1986
1987
- In July, Technicolor acquired CBS/Fox's duplication facility; the acquisition was completed sometime in September.
- Shortly after Technicolor's acquisition of CBS/Fox's duplication facility, VCA-Teletronics was spun off from Technicolor.
1988
1989
1990
- Licensed VHS duplicators this year include:
- Rank Video Services America (Northbrook, IL; Garden Grove, CA; and Mexicali, BC)
- Technicolor Videocassette (Hollywood, CA; Newbury Park, CA; and Livonia, MI)
- Premiere Video (Livonia, MI)
- Hauppauge Video Manufacturing (Hauppauge, NY)
- High Speed Video (Philadelphia, PA)
- Crest Cassette Corporation (Wilmington, CA)
- In late March, The CBS/Fox Company switched over to Rank Video Services America from Technicolor Videocassette, though it would not start duplicating their product there until that August.
1991
- Licensed VHS duplicators this year include:
- Rank Video Services America (Northbrook, IL; Garden Grove, CA; and Mexicali, BC)
- Technicolor Videocassette (Hollywood, CA; Newbury Park, CA; and Livonia, MI)
- Premiere Video (Livonia, MI)
- Hauppauge Video Manufacturing (Hauppauge, NY)
- Future Duplicators (Fairlawn, NJ)
- VCA-Teletronics (Leonia, NJ)
- Crest Cassette Corporation (Wilmington, CA)
- Producers Color Service Inc. (Southfield, MI)
- Celebrity Duplicating Services (Canoga Park, CA)
- Video Entertainment Corporation (Canada)
- By late March, West Coast Video Duplicating (Brisbane, CA; and Culver City, CA) has also become formally licensed.
- The following duplicators have also joined the JVC fold by September:
- Allied Film and Video (Bingham Farms, MI)
- Cassette Productions (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Centercom Inc. (Milwaukee, WI)
- Custom Duplication Inc. (Inglewood, CA)
- Denver Dubbing (Englewood, CO)
- Diamond Entertainment Corporation (Anaheim, CA)
- The Duplication Factory (Chaska, MN)
- FP Video Services, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN)
- Resolution Video Production and Duplication (Burlington, VT)
- Video West Productions (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Come November, another JVC license is issued, to Video Duplication Services Inc. (Brooklyn Heights, OH; Columbus, OH; Dayton, OH; and Youngstown, OH).
1992
- Licensed VHS duplicators this year include:
- Celebrity Duplicating Services (Canoga Park, CA)
- Crest Cassette Corporation (Wilmington, CA)
- Custom Duplication Inc. (Inglewood, CA)
- Diamond Entertainment Corporation (Anaheim, CA)
- Technicolor Videocassette (Hollywood, CA; Newbury Park, CA; and Livonia, MI)
- West Coast Video Duplicating (Brisbane, CA)
- Denver Dubbing (Englewood, CO)
- Rank Video Services America (Northbrook, IL; Garden Grove, CA; and Calexico, CA)
- FP Video Services, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN)
- Allied Film and Video (Bingham Farms, MI)
- Premiere Video (Livonia, MI)
- Producers Color Service Inc. (Southfield, MI)
- The Duplication Factory (Chaska, MN)
- Future Duplicators (Fairlawn, NJ)
- VCA-Teletronics (Leonia, NJ)
- Hauppauge Video Manufacturing (Hauppauge, NY)
- Cassette Productions Unlimited (Arden, NC)
- Video Duplication Services Inc. (Brooklyn Heights, OH; Columbus, OH; Dayton, OH; and Youngstown, OH)
- Cassette Duplicators Incorporated (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Cassette Productions (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Video West Productions (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Resolution Video Production and Duplication (Burlington, VT)
- Centercom Inc. (Milwaukee, WI)
- Early in the year, Video Lab Cassette Division (New Brunswick, NJ) also obtained a JVC license.
- New JVC licenses were issued by July to:
- Magnetech Corporation (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- AKO Enterprises (Romeoville, IL)
- American Sound & Video (Warren, MI)
- EMC Productions (St. Paul, MN)
- Mardee (South Plainfield, NJ)
- International Cassette Corp. (Greenville, TX)
- Media Associates Inc. (Fairfax, VA)
- Premiere America Inc. (Seattle, WA)
- In September, Technicolor Videocassette acquired the assets of Video Cassette Duplicating Corp.'s duplication facility in Cincinatti, Ohio, which at the time was the only duplication facility Video Cassette Duplicating Corp. operated after its Marina Del Rey, California and Hackensack, New Jersey plants were closed earlier in the year.