Panasonic Disc Manufacturing Corporation

1st Logo
(December 10, 2002-June 20, 2006)

 Logo : On a black background, two DVDs respectively fly up and down onto the screen and fuse together. A laser traces around them, causing them to turn into a abstract disc shape in black and silver. "PDMC", in ghostly white, appears before flashing and eventually turning neon blue with black outlines. A lens flare moves in the background and the company name appears below.

 Variant : A still variant exists that places the abstract DVD (without "PDMC") over the lens flare and below the Panasonic logo, with "MDMC" next to it. Above all this is "DVD Production Services By:". So far, this is only known to appear on Phone Booth, Like Mike, Hope Floats, Predator 2, The Blue Max, Sink the Bismarck!, Quest for Fire, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete Second Season (the video files on the MTM release date to February 2003, and it was intended for release that spring, but eventually not released until 2005 due to minimal sales of the previous season).

 FX/SFX : CGI.

 Music/Sounds : A synth pad drone with a warbling sound, a reverse cymbal, a low-pitched laser sound, and a low hit.

 Availability : Rare. The fully animated version was seen on certain 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment releases until 2006, such as Olive, the Other Reindeer, Firefly: The Complete Series, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Sleeping with the Enemy, Bad Girls, Cheaper By the Dozen (1950 and 2003), Catch That Kid, Garfield: The Movie, Silver Streak, The Alligator People, History of the World: Part I, Le Divorce, Redemption, Guns at Batasi, Dharma & Greg: Season One, The Great White Hope, Making Love, the first three seasons of Reba, and the third and fourth seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, among others.

2nd Logo
(July 22, 2006-June 16, 2009; October 6, 2009-October 5, 2010)

 Logo : Over a rotating blue swirl, a large, transparent DVD spins into the center and slowly zooms out. A lens flare occurs, then a laser writes "PDMC" (with "Panasonic Disc Manufacturing Corporation" underneath) across the still-spinning disc. A lens flare then appears in the lower-right corner, with lines converging until they form a white rectangle with a blue center. Another lens flare then wipes the Panasonic logo with its slogan, "" across the bottom.

 Variant : A still version exists.

 FX/SFX : CGI.

 Music/Sounds : A low synth drone, followed by some synthesized jangling, laser sounds, and a peaceful three-note tune.

 Availability : Common. Seen on certain 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment releases until 2010, such as the first three seasons of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Purple Heart, Fixed Bayonets!, Kickin' It Old Skool, The Illusionist, With a Song in My Heart: The Jane Froman Story, Even Money, the Cinema Classics Collection reissue of Von Ryan's Express, Wee Willie Winkie, 12 Rounds, Nobel Son, Garfield's Pet Force, a couple of late 2000s Strawberry Shortcake DVDs, and Goosebumps: "One Day at HorrorLand", among others. The last DVDs to use this during its regular run were The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), as a bonus disc included in the DVD release of the 2008 remake (the disc with the 2008 version has the Deluxe Digital Studios logo), Saving Grace: Season Two, and Reba: The Complete Sixth Season. After then, logos for video technology services were phased out of Fox releases, though this logo returned for the final three seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, released in 2009 and 2010.