WEA Manufacturing Inc.
Appearance

History[edit]
WEA Manufacturing Inc. was the record, cassette and CD manufacturing arm of Warner Music Group. The arm was formed sometime in 1978, when Warner Communications acquired the Specialty Record Corporation in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, and exclusively provided audio duplication in its early years, but over a decade later, the arm began duplicating videocassettes in addition to audio products. The arm also duplicated some LaserDiscs in the 1990s. In 1996, the Specialty Record Corporation was merged into WEA Manufacturing and the company launched a duplication arm for DVDs named Warner Advanced Media Operations (WAMO). In October 2003, the arm was sold to Cinram International Inc.
List of Home Media Customers[edit]
- American Visuals
- Children's Book of the Month Club
- Eastwest Records America (1996)
- Martha Stewart Living (1994)
- Morningstar (1993)
- Playboy Home Video
- Scotti Bros. Records
- Warner Home Video (some copies of Grumpier Old Men, Twister, Eraser, and A Time to Kill, and perhaps some other tapes)
- Warner Music Group
- A*Vision Entertainment/WarnerVision Entertainment
- BodyVision
- KidVision
- NightVision
- Rhino Home Video
- Warner Alliance Home Video
- Warner Music Enterprises
- Country Video Monthly
- Rock Video Monthly
- Warner Reprise Video
- Warner Resound
- A*Vision Entertainment/WarnerVision Entertainment
List of Audio Customers[edit]
- Disneyland/Vista Records (1979-1988)
- Disneyland Records (1979-1988)
- Buena Vista Records (Early 1980s)
- Fisher-Price (1983-1986) (tapes licensed by Disneyland/Vista Records)
- Warner Music Group
- Atlantic Records
- Warner Bros. Records
- Rhino Entertainment Company
- Kid Rhino
- Wonderland Records
How to Tell for Home Media Releases[edit]
- Tapes from this duplicator had a barcode sticker on the bottom middle side, which showed the following information:
3.[tape's catalog number]
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An example of what the barcode sticker on tapes from this duplicator looked like.
- Tapes from this duplicator do not have anything in the vertical blanking interval.
Locations[edit]
- Burbank, California
- New York, New York
- Olyphant, Pennsylvania