The Complete History of Home Video

1977

 * Magnetic Video Corporation became the first company to release films on videocassette.

1987

 * Technicolor acquired CBS/Fox's duplication facility.

1990

 * Licensed VHS duplicators this year include:
 * Rank Video Services America (Northbrook, IL; Garden Grove, CA; and Mexicali, BC)
 * Technicolor Videocassette (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)

1991

 * Licensed VHS duplicators this year include:
 * Rank Video Services America (Northbrook, IL; Garden Grove, CA; and Mexicali, BC)
 * Technicolor Videocassette (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 Los Angeles, 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. (Grove City, OH).