Background: Cinram International was a Toronto, Canada-based manufacturer of pre-recorded Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CD-Audio, CD-ROMs, VHS tapes and audio cassettes. The company was an affiliate of the Arizona-based Najafi Companies. The company's fortunes began to decline with the rise of online streaming services. In 2010, Cinram lost its major contract for distributing Warner Bros. movies, and its stock began to fall. In 2012, the company sought bankruptcy protection from its creditors in the United States. The company was bought by private investment firm Najafi Companies. In 2014, the company ended its manufacturing operations in Toronto. That year, the company bought JVC America from JVC Kenwood. In 2015, the company shut its Tuscaloosa, Alabama manufacturing plant. On November 3, 2015, Paris-based Technicolor SA announced the acquisition of Cinram that same month.
Cinram POP DVD Center[]
(October 1, 1997-July 27, 2004)[]
Nickname: “Spinning Disc”, “2D Cinram”, “Cinram DVD Center POP”
Logo: On a black background, we see a silhouette of a hand holding a DVD disc, which flashes and then spins. At the same time, the stacked light blue words “cinram DVD CENTER POP”, with “cinram“ and “POP” in their corporate fonts, and “DVD CENTER” sandwiched between a pair of lines, flash in at the same time as the hand and disc. Underneath the logo is the URL "www.popstudios.com", which in a light blue Helvetica Neue font and italicized. After a few seconds, a light swipes the URL. After that, the logo fades out with the URL fading out a second later.
FX/SFX: 2D animation.
Music/Sounds: A synth swipe, then a synth choir, combined with a synth slash.
Availability: Rare.
- It first appeared at the end of a few Live/Artisan Entertainment DVDs such as the 1998-99 DVD releases of L.A. Story, Suicide Kings and The Stand.
- It also appears at the end of Pioneer Entertainment DVDs such as the 1997-98 DVD releases of both Tenchi movies and the 2001 Special Edition of Akira, Viz Video DVDs such as early Pokemon and Ranma 1/2 DVDs and Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (removed on 2004-05 prints), the 1998-2000 Trimark Home Video DVDs of Chairman of the Board, Star Kid, and Natural Born Killers: Director's Cut, the 2002 Anchor Bay DVD of Tender Mercies, and early Bandai Entertainment DVDs such as Saber Marionette J, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz: Special Edition, Blue Submarine No. 6, and The Big O.
Cinram Digital Media Services[]
(August 3, 2004-October 19, 2010)[]
Nickname: “Smoky Cinram”
Logo: On a smoky background, we see five circles (2 blue, 2 light green, and 1 red) and letters of the blue word “cinram” (in its corporate font) flying past each other and then zooming out. The then-current Cinram logo then flies to the middle of the background with the blue words “digital”, ”media”, and ”services” wiping in under the logo. The smoke in the background continues to move as the logo fades out.
FX/SFX: The smoke, the circles and letters flying, and the wiping.
Music/Sounds: A few whooshes followed by a quiet synth theme.
Music/Sound Variants: A high tone variant exists.
Availability: Uncommon.
- It appears at the end on a few New Line Cinema DVDs from 2004-07, such as Laws of Attraction, The Notebook, Legalese, A Dirty Shame, The Upside of Anger, Nature of the Beast, The Man, Cyber Wars, The Nativity Story, and Fracture.
- It also appears at the end of MGM DVDs like Weekend at Bernie's, Undertow, Hannibal, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, The Silence of the Lambs, Night of the Comet, C.H.O.M.P.S., Gotham (1988), They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Emperor's New Clothes, and Straw Dogs.
- It can also be found right at the end on a few Lionsgate DVDs such as Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, ALF Animated Adventures: 20,000 Years in Driving School, Peppa Pig: Muddy Puddles, One Touch of Venus, Santa's Slay, 5ive Days to Midnight, Unhitched, The Monster Squad: 20th Anniversary Edition, and Love Hurts, as well as the first four DVD volumes of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl from Viz Media.
- It appears on the 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD release of Bratz: Genie Magic, the 2004 Universal Music DVD of Magic Kid, and the 2004 HBO Home Video DVD of Hostile Waters.
- It makes appearances on the Magnolia Home Entertainment DVDs of Food, Inc., Serious Moonlight, Two Lovers, World's Greatest Dad, The Burning Plain, The Warlords, Tidal Wave, Bronson, and Mutant Chronicles.
- It was last used in the U.S. on Entertainment One DVDs of Night of the Demons and The Six Wives of Henry Lefay and in the U.K. on a Warner Home Video DVD of Blade.