Vaughn Communications Inc.
This company was acquired by Allied Digital Technologies on January 9, 1999. In March of that year, a new division of said company was formed: Allied Vaughn.
List of Customers
- A.D. Vision (1992-1996)
- Crocus Entertainment
- The National Arbor Day Foundation
- Simitar Entertainment
How to Tell
- Most tapes did not have any form of printing; however, some had the Vaughn V printed above the recording tab, with a number representing the tape length next to it, while others had a small V-XX tape length above the recording tab and an equally-sized long string of numbers on the spine like this for example:
V-60 2-9406080134
- Early tapes had dark red printings like this for example:
[Vaughn V]3286 159900
- Tapes with these dark red printings had a few extra seconds of black screen following the blank space at the tail-end.
- Not a single tape from this duplicator had anything in the vertical blanking interval.
- Tapes duplicated at the plants acquired with Centercom Inc. continued to use that duplicator's printings, like this for example:
2 65951354 0914 02213 T75
- On some copies of Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture, the above printings were gray, due to the tape being white.
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An example of what the dark red printings on early tapes by this duplicator looked like.
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Locations
- Creve Coeur, Missouri
- Dallas, Texas
- Houston, Texas
- Irvine, California
- Lincolnwood, Illinois (1995-????) (acquired in Centercom merger)
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Naperville, Illinois (199?-????) (acquired in PVS Corporate Services merger)
- Norcross, Georgia
- Phoenix, Arizona (1989-????) (acquired in Arizona Tape Duplicating acquisition)
- Portland, Oregon
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Tampa, Florida
Website
- vaughn.com (via the WayBack Machine)