Digital Video Compression Center

Background: Digital Video Compression Center (legally Digital Video Compression Corporation) was a DVD transfer company, founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of Panasonic, and acquired by Deluxe Digital Studios on August 10, 2004. Around September of the same year, Deluxe put DVCC's website domain up for auction, later to shut the company down after a few months.

1st Logo (March 25, 1997-mid 2001 (MGM/Universal); November 3, 1998-August 20, 2002 (20th Century Fox); September 17, 2002)
Logo: On a black background, we see a dark lime green rectangle with the cut-out call letters "dvcc". Above the logo is "DVD Production Services By:", and below it is "Digital Video Compression Center", "Universal City, California", and, in a smaller size, the URL "http://www.dvcc.com", stacked on top of each other, respectively.

Variant:


 * On the earliest DVDs with this logo, the URL is missing, perhaps due to DVCC not having a website at the time of its release.
 * A French-language variant exists on French DVDs.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Fairly common.
 * It can be seen on Universal DVDs from 1998 to mid 2001, such as The Little Rascals, the first two Jurassic Park movies, both Nutty Professor movies, the original releases of Backdraft, Shadow of the Vampire and National Lampoon's Animal House, Jaws, 1941, The Chamber, BASEketball, Beethoven's 2nd, Far and Away, The Lonely Guy, Kindergarten Cop, Hard Target, Bring It On, Man on the Moon, Apollo 13, Black Dog, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, The Bone Collector, EDtv, and Mystery Men.
 * It also appears on Fox DVDs from 1998 to mid 2001, such as Big, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Independence Day, Anastasia, Home Alone 1-3, The Abyss: Special Edition, X-Men, Cast Away, The Edge, Office Space, Bulworth, Fight Club, Cleopatra (1963), Ravenous, The Newton Boys, Raising Arizona, the original releases of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Miracle on 34th Street, Quills, Speed and Patton, the Special Edition of Tora! Tora! Tora!, Olive the Other Reindeer, and the Die Hard: Ultimate Collection box set.
 * It even appears on MGM DVDs, such as The Black Stallion, the original release of The Secret of NIMH, the James Bond Special Edition films from Dr. No up until The World is Not Enough, and the Special Edition DVDs of Rocky, The Princess Bride, The Terminator, and The Graduate.
 * This also appeared on PolyGram Video DVDs, such as Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Clay Pigeons, Misery, The Game, Barney's Great Adventure, and The Big Lebowski, as well as the USA Home Entertainment release of Topsy-Turvy.
 * It also appeared on the HBO Home Video releases of Gotti (1996), The Best of the Chris Rock Show: Volume 2, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and Switch, some New Line Cinema releases, including The Player, and a few Trimark Pictures DVDs.
 * On DreamWorks Home Entertainment releases, it appears on Small Time Crooks, Galaxy Quest and Almost Famous (all rare cases), as well as recorded DVDs of Antz, The Prince of Egypt, Joseph: King of Dreams and The Road to El Dorado.
 * Among the last DVDs to use this were When Harry Met Sally... and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Second Season, though this surprisingly appeared on The Pride of the Yankees, which was likely prepped up for release earlier.
 * The original URL-less version can be seen on the original releases of Beethoven, GoldenEye, The Land Before Time, The Wizard of Oz, The Usual Suspects, and The Paper, and makes a surprise appearance on the 1999 release of Four Weddings and a Funeral.
 * The French variant was found on the 2001 French DVD of Cast Away from DreamWorks.

2nd Logo (mid 2001-2003 (Universal); January 8, 2002-October 26, 2004 (20th Century Fox/Artisan Entertainment); November 6, 2001-December 16, 2003 (MGM))
Logo: A green laser runs through a green block, then it cuts a metallic "d" out. Over a black background with smoke in the center, the "v" and two "c"s fly out, then the final product rests in the center. The text "Digital Video Compression Center" fades in below.

FX/SFX: The laser, the letters cutting out, and the text fading.

Music/Sounds: A buzzing sound followed by a tense rhythmic tune.

Availability: Fairly common.


 * This is known to appear on Fox DVDs such as Ice Age, Garfield's Holiday Celebrations, Garfield as Himself, The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season, The Girl Next Door, Futurama: Volumes 1-4, The Simpsons Gone Wild, Man on Fire, Speed, 28 Days Later, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Garfield and Friends: Volumes 1 and 2, Family Guy: Season Two, Planet of the Apes (2001), Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, the first two seasons of King of the Hill, Unfaithful, both Cocoon movies, Arrested Development: Season 1, Runaway Jury, Solaris (2003), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), M*A*S*H (1970) (in addition to seasons 3-6 of the TV version), One Fine Day, Brown Sugar, Daredevil, X-2: X-Men United, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Welcome to Mooseport, There's Something About Mary, Drumline, Wrong Turn, Thirteen, Stuck On You, The Clearing, Predator (1987), the 2004 reissues of the first four Alien films, High Crimes, Moulin Rouge (2001), and The Day After Tomorrow.
 * It was also seen on some Universal DVDs such as How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Josie and the Pussycats (2001), The Fast and the Furious, The Mummy Returns, Mulholland Drive, How High, The Scorpion King, Shenandoah, and The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water.
 * On MGM Home Entertainment releases, this is known to appear on the Legally Blonde films, the original release of Die Another Day, Ghoulies I & II, It Runs in the Family, Rollerball (2002) and the Special Editions of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Escape from New York, and Thelma and Louise.
 * It also appears on some Artisan Home Entertainment releases, such as the 2003 Extreme Edition of Terminator 2: Judgment Day..
 * It even appears on some HBO Home Video releases, such as the 2004 DVD of I Spy: A Thing That Flings and Other Stories.
 * and this logo did not appeared on Pokémon Adventures on Orange Islands volumes (but there's PDSC logo 2002 instead.)

Editor's Note: The logo is somewhat nice to many due to the animation and the tune, though it can be unexpected if the viewer didn't expect it to appear.