1st Logo[]
(August 6, 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: In 2003, a still variant was used, which 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:".
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 with a deeper drone at the end. The music is in-sync with everything that goes on in the logo.
Availability: Rare, bordering on uncommon.
- The fully animated version was seen on certain 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment releases until 2006, such as Hot Shots!, Olive, the Other Reindeer, Firefly: The Complete Series, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Sleeping with the Enemy, Bad Girls, both versions of Cheaper by the Dozen, Catch That Kid, Garfield: The Movie, Silver Streak, The Alligator People, History of the World: Part I, Le Divorce, Redemption: The Stan "Tookie" Williams Story, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, The Dark Corner, Guns at Batasi, Dharma & Greg: Season One, The Great White Hope, Making Love, the first three seasons of Reba, That 70's Show: Season Two, and the third and fourth seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, among others.
- The still version appears on Gentleman's Agreement, Phone Booth, Like Mike, Hope Floats, Predator 2, The Blue Max, Sink the Bismarck!, The Undefeated, Quest for Fire, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 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).
2nd Logo[]
(July 22, 2006-June 16, 2009; October 6, 2009-October 5, 2010)
Logo: Against an ocean blue background with a bright blue vortex, a transparent DVD flies in up close from the top right of the screen, immediately zooming out afterward. As it does, it turns white and then solid as a faint flash fires a laser that runs from left to right at the bottom of the disc. The laser forms "Panasonic Disc Manufacturing Corporation" while also wiping in "PDMC" above. When the laser leaves, two horizontal white lines below pass through each other, repeating it until a white horizontal strip is formed. After this, two blue lines inside the strip perform the same action to cover most of it with a blue strip, as a pink spark inside flies left to right, forming the Panasonic logo and the company slogan "ideas for life" (in the same font).
FX/SFX: CGI.
Music/Sounds: A synth note that becomes louder, followed by a brief explosion and the sound of the laser. Dreamy sounding keys play repeatedly as the logo ends with a horn sounder. Again, everything is in-sync with the music.
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, Bandidas, Caprice, 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.