LaserPacific Media Corporation

Contents

1st Logo (December 17, 1997-1999)	2nd Logo (1998-March 4, 2003)	3rd Logo (June 10, 2003-2007)	4th Logo (2006)

1st Logo (December 17, 1997-1999)

Visuals: On a light blue background with two white and blue lights shining, the drop shadow text "DVD ENCODING AND AUTHORING BY" in BankGothic Regular font is above the LaserPacific logo, which is a DVD shape in a eye shape with many different lines. The words "LASERPACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION" are next to or (usually) below the logo.

Variants: Sub-variants exist, as mentioned below:

On Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, it appears over a hazy yellow background.
On the original release of Moonstruck, it appears superimposed over a scene of Cher and Nicolas Cage that was also used for the disc's copyright screen.
On The Wedding Singer, the film's logo (with DVD next to it) appears above authoring, encoding and graphics by, with the LaserPacific logo below.
On Pi, it appears over a static background numerical background. In befitting the monochromatic tone of the movie, everything is in gray.
On Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, it appears over a stormy background, with flashes of lightning.
On Don Juan DeMarco, it appears on a gray piece of paper with "Credit" (in a fancy script font) on top of a red line, and "Authoring Compression and Graphic Design by" below the line.
On Merlin (1998), it appears on a purple background.
On Belly (1998), it appears on a white-yellow background.
On Dark City, it appears on a dark background with lightning.
On The Great Train Robbery, it appears over a reddish-orange shot of a train.
On Angel Heart, it appears on a shot from the DVD menu.
On Wishmaster, it appears on a blue background.

Technique: A still, digital graphic.

Audio: None.

Availability:

It appears on the New Line Cinema DVDs of The Lawnmower Man, and Spawn (1997).
Also seen on the Live Entertainment releases of Young Guns, Sophie's Choice, and Jacob's Ladder.
Also seen on some early Universal and 20th Century Fox DVDs.

2nd Logo (1998-March 4, 2003)

Visuals: On a black background, the LaserPacific logo and the words "LASERPACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION" appear via a wipe effect. Then the LaserPacific logo gleams as a large gray DVD logo (notably narrower than the regular one) fades in behind it. After that, the white words ENCODING and AUTHORING appear on the top and bottom via a wipe effect as well.

Technique: 2D computer animation.

Audio: None. On New Line Cinema releases, there is a whoosh, as well as a dark bang as the logo gleams.

Availability:

Seen at the end of New Line releases such as Lost in Space, Boiler Room, Trial and Error, The Little Vampire (2000), Lost Souls, Thirteen Days, Rush Hour 2, Blade II, Price of Glory, The Bachelor, and disc 2 of the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
It was also seen at the end of MGM releases such as the original releases of Spaceballs, Hoosiers, UHF, Sleeper, Escape from New York, The Big Country, The Hallelujah Trail, and River's Edge.
It was also seen on Artisan Entertainment releases such as Requiem for a Dream, Felicia's Journey, Wishmaster Double Feature, Noah's Ark, Stir of Echoes, and the Special Edition of The Doors.
On Morgan Creek releases distributed by Warner Home Video, it appears on The In Crowd, Trial by Jury, Stay Tuned, Diabolique, and the 2002 reissue of True Romance (all rare cases since most Warner Home Video DVDs use no authoring logo).
It also appears on Sony Music Entertainment DVDs and the USA Home Entertainment DVD of One Night at McCool's.

3rd Logo (June 10, 2003-2007)

Visuals: On a black background, a split red arrow is pointing at a DVD emitting lights before it rotates to the side and "DVD" appearing on the DVD. More arrows come in to the DVD and disappear as a oval outline draws around the DVD and "ENCODING" appears on it. It becomes a solid sky blue circle via a countdown effect with lines and arrows on it and then it has "AUTHORING" appearing on it as it becomes yellow, then red, and more lines draw around it. The logo zooms out completely as it quickly turns into the logo from before. The text "LASERPACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION" fades in below.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Beeps and synths. Sometimes, the logo can be silent, as seen on the New Line Cinema releases of Final Destination 3, Snakes on a Plane, and The Lord of the Rings sequels.

Availability:

Seen at the end of New Line DVDs such as a re-release of The Mask, Friday After Next, After the Sunset, Son of the Mask, Secondhand Lions, Final Destination 2, Elf, Blade: Trinity, and disc 2 of the Extended Editions of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Return of the King.
It was also seen at the end of MGM DVD releases from 2003 to mid 2005, such as Species, Lightning, the White Stallion, City of Ghosts, West Side Story, Thunderbird 6, Judgment at Nuremberg, Agent Cody Banks, Bowling for Columbine (the Canadian DVD has the Asset Digital logo instead), Follow That Dream, and The Safety of Objects.
It even appeared on the 2003 Warner Home Video DVD of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (again, a rare case since Warner Bros. usually uses no authoring logo on its DVDs).

4th Logo (2006)

Visuals: On a white background, four different colored arrows scroll into a 2-D version of the LaserPacific logo from the previous logo, with a gray "3" in it. The teal part then turns yellow, then red, as the "3" changes to a teal "2" and several shots of a LaserPacific-branded car, which gets increasingly smaller and ultimately drives away as the LaserPacific logo forms. It eases back, and the car passes through it, leaving the company name in its wake.

Technique: 2D animation.

Audio: A techno tune and some car driving sounds.

Availability: This appears exclusively on a sales DVD of the pilot to the short-lived NBC sitcom Twenty Good Years.