Crest National

1st Logo (1997-June 11, 2002; 2004-05; 2007)[]

Custom Variants

Logo: On a blue wood background with a DVD logo engraved into it, the ghostly text "DVD Encoding and Authoring By" is shown, along with the light blue and white rectangle with a carve of the C like moon and the text says "CREST" in black, and "NATIONAL" in white and an URL below.

Variants:

Sometimes, the text reads "DVD Encoding Authoring and Menu Design By."
- Two subvariants exist: one with the URL, and one without.
Custom variants exist on some DVDs:
- On the 1998 N.A. DVD of The Borrowers, it appeared on film shot.
- On Mr. Saturday Night, it is on a light brown background.
- On the 1998 DVD of Halloween, we instead see a shot from the film, with the logo over a pumpkin. Michael Meyers can be seen from the window on the right, with his knife being visible in the kitchen.
- On the 1999 DVD of Army of Darkness, the logo is at an angle, and Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) is grabbing it.
- On the 2000 DVD of Girls Just Want to Have Fun, "DVD" is in a larger font than the rest of the text. The background is also a shot from the film.
- On the DVD of Bean: The Movie, it is on a yellow background with Mr. Bean.
- On the 2000 DVD of Santa Claus: The Movie, the logo is over a shot of Santa (Dudley Moore)'s workshop.
- On the 1999 DVD of Bad Lieutenant, it appeared as a carving on a jail cell wall.
- On some Sony Music Entertainment DVDs, as well as the 1999 DVD of Permanent Midnight, the background is a stone carving of the logo.
- On Sprung, Evil Dead II, and Manhunter, it appeared on a shot from the film.
- On the 2000 DVD of The Kentucky Fried Movie, it's styled like the disc's other menus, with the housewife from "Zinc Oxide and You" next to the logo. The background is a red-tinted still from "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble."
- On the 2001 DVD of Suspiria, it's styled like the disc's other menus, and "DVD" appears above the logo.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Uncommon.

Seen at the end of some Anchor Bay Entertainment DVDs, such as Tapeheads, Fruits of Passion, Minnie and Moskowitz, Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except, Cockfighter, C.H.U.D., Death on the Nile, and Nosferatu the Vampyre.
It also appears on the Studio Home Entertainment DVD of The Million Dollar Hotel, the Trimark Home Video DVDs of Stephen King's Storm of the Century, Blue Juice, Twice Upon a Yesterday, Eye of the Killer, Happiness, and Better Than Chocolate, the New Line Home Video DVD of Pecker, the Artisan Entertainment DVDs of The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All, The Return of the Pink Panther, Bad Boys, Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored, Jesus of Nazareth, Plenty, and The Quiet Man, and the 2004-05 Viz Video reissues of Pokémon: The Mystery of Mount Moon and Totally Togepi.
On some 2001-02 Anchor Bay releases, such as Shatter, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and Fright, it's used in tandem with the next logo.
This is also retained on Blue Underground's reissues of former Anchor Bay titles, such as Suspiria.

2nd Logo (May 22, 2001-July 25, 2006)[]

Logo: On a dark blue-black background, we see a globe with a sunburst effect behind it. Circling it are two arrows, with "DVD" in-between them and "It's Digital!" underneath. In the lower right corner is the Crest National logo, with "ENCODING," "AUTHORING," and "MENU DESIGN" next to it.