LaserPacific Media Corporation

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1st Logo (1997-1999)

 * 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. It appears on the New Line Cinema DVDs of The Lawnmower Man, and Spawn (1997), as well as the Live Entertainment releases of Young Guns, Sophie's Choice, and Jacob's Ladder, including some early Universal and Fox DVDs. Sub-variants exist, 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 grey 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.

 FX/SFX : None.

 Music/Sounds : None.

 Availability : Rare.

2nd Logo (1998-2003)


Logo: On a black background, the LaserPacific logo, which is a DVD shape in a eye shape with many different lines, and the words LASERPACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION appear via a wipe effect. Then the LaserPacific logo gleams as a large gray DVD logo (which was narrower than usual) fades in behind it. After that, the white words ENCODING and AUTHORING appear on the top and bottom via a wipe effect as well.

FX/SFX: The LaserPacific logo and text wiping in, the fading of the DVD logo, and the white words appearing.

Music/Sounds: Often silent. On New Line Cinema releases, you can hear a whoosh, as well as a dark bang as the logo gleams.

Availability: Fairly common.


 * Seen at the end of New Line Cinema releases such as Lost in Space, Boiler Room, Trial and Error, The Little Vampire (2000), Thirteen Days, Blade II, Price of Glory, The Bachelor, Feeling Minnesota, The Cell, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Blow, the Austin Powers sequels, Pump Up the Volume, and 15 Minutes.
 * It was also seen at the end of MGM releases such as Spaceballs, Escape from New York, The Hallelujah Trail, Death Warrant, F/X 2, Hannah and Her Sisters, Igby Goes Down, Original Sin, Deuces Wild, City Slickers, This is Spinal Tap, and 24 Hour Party People.
 * It was also seen on Artisan Entertainment releases such as Requiem for a Dream 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 and the 2002 reissue of True Romance (all rare cases since Warner Home Video DVDs use no authoring logo).
 * It also appears on the USA Home Entertainment DVD of One Night at McCool's.
 * It also appears at the end of Goodtimes Entertainment DVD of Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys seen here.

3rd Logo (2003-2007)


Logo: 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.

FX/SFX: The LaserPacific logo forming.

Music/Sounds: 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: Common.


 * 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 How to Eat Fried Worms.
 * It was also seen at the end of MGM DVD releases from 2003 to mid 2005, such as Lightning, the White Stallion, West Side Story, Thunderbird 6, Agent Cody Banks, Bowling for Columbine, Follow That Dream, Hotel Rwanda, The Brother from Another Planet, Walking Tall, Good Boy!, the second season of Green Acres, all three volumes of The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, the special edition of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the collector's edition of Spaceballs, and the Rocky Anthology box set.
 * It even appeared on the 2003 Warner Home Video DVD of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.