Panasonic Disc Services Corporation

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum


1st Logo (March 9, 1999-August 20, 2002)


Visuals: Basically just the DVCC logo of 1997, except that the Panasonic Disc Services Corporation logo with a grey and yellow disc and replaces the DVCC logo, and "www.panasonicdvd.com" replaces the DVCC website URL.

Technique: A still, digital graphic.

Audio: None.

Availability: It can be found at the end of some early Fox and Universal DVDs.

  • It debuted on the 1999 DVD of Broken Arrow, and can also be seen on Commando, Office Space, Joe Somebody, Waking Life, The Pagemaster, The Full Monty, Waking Ned Devine, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Behind Enemy Lines, Speed 2: Cruise Control, D-Day the Sixth of June, The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, the first two Home Alone movies,​ discs released in the Bob Hope Tribute Collection series, American Pie: Ultimate Edition, The Towering Inferno and DragonHeart: A New Beginning. The logo's last official appearance was on Joe Somebody, though it also appears hidden within the video files on the first season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
  • It can also be found on the ADV DVD of Lost Universe: It's His Duty to Kick Some Booty and the 2001 Word/Lyrick Studios DVD of VeggieTales: Lyle the Kindly Viking and the Artisan Entertainment DVD of The Fighting Kentuckian.

2nd Logo (May 14, 2002-May 25, 2004)


Visuals: A globe zooms out and comes into focus. A laser then goes around the globe and fades out, revealing the logo with the "PDSC" text on top. It looks identical to the Panasonic Disc Manufacturing Corporation logo, but the disk is more hollow, is with grey and gold, has the text in silver, and the name has Services instead to go with the logo.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: Same as the PDMC logo.

Availability: This logo appeared on even fewer releases.

  • It debuted at the end on 20th Century Fox DVDs such as the 2002 "Directors' Limited Edition" release of From Hell, and can also be seen on Hot Shots!, Super Troopers, Johnny Dangerously, the first release of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), a reissue of Dr. Dolittle, and the first season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Wizards.
  • It also appears on the Universal Studios Home Video release of Butt-Ugly Martians: Boyz to Martians and Lions Gate's 2003 DVD of Irreversible.
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