User talk:Foxman McCoy

Frank Capra's WWII tapes

Did Allied Digital somehow have Canadian holdings at that time? Because the printings look an awful lot like those of Allied Digital. --IlCattivo25 (talk) 06:32, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Reply to the previous post.

It does indeed look like the first printing in the gallery. It also mentions that the printings may include the title as well. These tapes are from 1997, and they are in EP mode. If I remember correctly, these do not have anything at the end, and they have the normal reels. So do I add Madacy Entertainment as a Allied Digital customer and remove the added information in the unknown duplicators?

The irony is, Madacy Entertainment was once owned by the Handleman Company, which also originally owned Anchor Bay Entertainment - Handleman acquired 80% of Madacy in 1995, and in May of that year, Handleman formed Anchor Bay Entertainment, from a merger between Video Treasures (which Handleman acquired in January 1989) and Starmaker Entertainment (which Handleman acquired in June 1994), although HGV Video Productions Inc., a Canadian distributor that Handleman formed (originating as a joint venture with GoodTimes Home Video) in early 1989, continued to distribute Anchor Bay labels such as Video Treasures and Starmaker in Canada until both labels were dissolved in 1998. By 1998, GoodTimes sold its stake in HGV Video to Handleman, making Handleman the sole parent for HGV Video. Before 1994, Starmaker was distributed in Canada by the ABM Group, which was later acquired by Front Row Entertainment sometime in the mid-'90s. Anchor Bay subsequently moved to Allied Digital from Technicolor Video Services in the summer of 1995, and trouble ensued by that point (according to an 10/21/1995 issue of Billboard Magazine); Allied was never prepared for the numerous runs of releases from Anchor Bay labels such as Video Treasures, Burbank Video, MNTEX, Strand Home Video and Starmaker. Allied's then-president and CEO James A. Merkle denied any difficulties that happened during the switch over. He later resigned in November 1995. HGV Video was subsequently renamed Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada Ltd. in August 2002. 69.85.235.232 12:56, 4 December 2023 (UTC)