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Background

Digital Video Compression Center (DVCC, 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, 1997-2002)

Visuals: On a black background is 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. This variant only appears on the original releases of Beethoven, The Paper, GoldenEye, The Land Before Time, The Wizard of Oz, and The Usual Suspects. It also appeared on the 1999 release of Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Technique: A still, digital graphic.

Audio: None.

Availability:

It can be seen on DVD releases from Universal (1997-mid 2001), 20th Century Fox (1998-mid 2001), and MGM (1998-2001).
This logo also appeared on PolyGram Video DVDs, HBO Video releases, and the New Line Home Video release of The Player.
It even appeared on some MPI Home Video releases, such as The Beatles: Help!.
On DreamWorks Home Entertainment releases, it appears on Small Time Crooks, Galaxy Quest and Almost Famous (all rare cases since DreamWorks DVDs don't use an authoring logo).
It appeared on the Warner Home Video/BBC Video DVD release of Walking With Dinosaurs (another rare case since Warner Home Video DVDs have no authoring logo).

2nd Logo (2001-2004)

Visuals: On a black background, the camera pans down to a metallic green plate right as a blue laser starts to cut into it. As the laser takes up the screen, it then cuts to the plate floating over a mass of light, rotating as the laser finishes cutting out the "v" (the "d" is already completed), letting the leftover material fall into the void. It then fades to having a "c" completed, and the laser cutting out a 2nd "c", having its material fall as well, and fully forming the "dvcc" logo from before. The camera then fades to a shot of the logo zooming out and positioning itself over the light, letting the rays illuminate the letters as "Digital Video Compression Center" fades in below. The logo and text continue to emit light rays and the plate shines until the logo fades out.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A buzzing sound followed by a tense rhythmic tune.

Availability:

This is known to appear on 20th Century Fox, Universal, and MGM DVDs from late 2001 to mid-to-late 2004.
It also appears on some Artisan Entertainment and HBO Video releases, such as the 2003 Extreme Edition DVD of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and all four I Spy DVD releases.

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 ===Background===
-Digital Video Compression Center (DVCC, 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.
+'''Digital Video Compression Center''' ('''DVCC''', 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, 1997-2002)===
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-</gallery>'''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.
+'''Visuals:''' On a black background is a {{color|green|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. This variant is extremely rare, and it only appears on the original releases of ''Beethoven'', ''The Paper'', ''GoldenEye'', ''The Land Before Time'', ''The Wizard of Oz'', and ''The Usual Suspects'', and makes a surprise appearance on the 1999 release of ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''.
+'''Variant:''' On the earliest DVDs with this logo, the URL is missing. This variant only appears on the original releases of ''Beethoven'', ''The Paper'', ''GoldenEye'', ''The Land Before Time'', ''The Wizard of Oz'', and ''The Usual Suspects''. It also appeared on the 1999 release of ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''.
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
+'''Technique:''' A still, digital graphic.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
-'''Availability:''' Fairly common.
+'''Audio:''' None.
-*It can be seen on [[Universal Pictures Home Entertainment|Universal]] DVDs from 1997 to mid 2001, such as ''The Little Rascals'', the first two ''Jurassic Park'' movies, both ''Nutty Professor'' movies, ''Backdraft'', ''Shadow of the Vampire'', ''The Big Kahuna'' and ''National Lampoon's Animal House'', ''Jaws'', ''1941'', ''The Chamber'', ''BASEketball'', ''The Hurricane'', ''Beethoven's 2nd'', ''The Mummy (1999)'', ''Far and Away'', ''The Lonely Guy'', ''Kindergarten Cop'', ''Hard Target'', ''Primary Colors'', ''Snow Falling on Cedars'', ''Bring It On'', ''The Family Man'', ''Man on the Moon'', ''Meet the Parents'', ''Apollo 13'', ''Casino'', ''Black Dog'', ''Pillow Talk'', ''Billy Madison'', ''Happy Gilmore'', ''Tremors 2: Aftershocks'', ''The Bone Collector'', ''EDtv'', ''Notting Hill'', ''The Story of Us'', and ''Mystery Men''.
+'''Availability:'''
-*It also appears on [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox]] DVDs from 1998 to mid 2001, such as ''Big'', ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'', ''Independence Day'', ''Anastasia'', ''Home Alone 3'', ''X-Men'', ''Enemy Mine'', ''Titan A.E.'', ''Bedazzled'', ''Cast Away'', ''Monkeybone'', ''Men of Honor'', ''The Edge'', ''Office Space'', ''Bulworth'', ''Fight Club'', ''Cleopatra'', ''Ravenous'', ''Edward Scissorhands'', ''The Newton Boys'', ''The Thin Red Line'', ''Raising Arizona'', the original releases of ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'', ''Miracle on 34th Street'', ''Speed'' and ''Patton'', the first season of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', the Special Editions of ''The Abyss'' and ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'', and the first three ''Die Hard'' films.
+*It can be seen on DVD releases from [[Universal Pictures Home Entertainment|Universal]] (1997-mid 2001), [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox]] (1998-mid 2001), and [[MGM Home Entertainment|MGM]] (1998-2001).
-*It even appears on [[MGM Home Entertainment|MGM]] DVDs from 1998 to 2001, such as ''The Black Stallion'', the ''James Bond'' Special Edition films from ''Dr. No'' up until ''The World is Not Enough'', ''Annie Hall'', ''Home for the Holidays'', ''J.D.'s Revenge'', ''The Princess Bride'', ''The Terminator'', ''The Pride of the Yankees'', ''Leaving Las Vegas'', ''In the Heat of the Night'', ''The Man in the Iron Mask'', ''When Harry Met Sally...'', the Special Edition DVDs of the ''Rocky Anthology'', and the original releases of ''The Secret of NIMH'', ''The Silence of the Lambs'', ''The Graduate'' and ''Cyborg''.
-*This logo also appeared on [[PolyGram Video (UK)|PolyGram Video]] DVDs, such as ''Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels'', ''Clay Pigeons'', ''Misery'', ''The Game'', ''What Dreams May Come'', ''Barb Wire'', ''Barney's Great Adventure'', ''The Big Lebowski'', and ''Topsy-Turvy''.
+*This logo also appeared on [[PolyGram Video]] DVDs, [[HBO Home Entertainment|HBO Video]] releases, and the [[New Line Home Entertainment|New Line Home Video]] release of ''The Player''.
-*It also appeared on [[HBO Home Entertainment|HBO Home Video]] releases, such as ''Gotti (1996)'', ''The Best of the Chris Rock Show: Volume 2'', ''Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead'' and ''Switch''.
-*It also appeared on the [[New Line Home Entertainment|New Line Home Video]] release of ''The Player''.
 *It even appeared on some [[MPI Home Video]] releases, such as ''The Beatles: Help!''.
-*On [[DreamWorks Home Entertainment]] releases, it surprisingly appears on ''Small Time Crooks'', ''Galaxy Quest'' and ''Almost Famous'' (all rare cases since DreamWorks DVDs don't use an authoring logo).
+*On [[DreamWorks Home Entertainment]] releases, it appears on ''Small Time Crooks'', ''Galaxy Quest'' and ''Almost Famous'' (all rare cases since DreamWorks DVDs don't use an authoring logo).
-*It surprisingly appeared on the [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|Warner Home Video]]/[[BBC Studios Home Entertainment (UK)|BBC Video]] DVD release of ''Walking With Dinosaurs'' (another rare case since Warner Home Video DVDs have no authoring logo).
+*It appeared on the [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|Warner Home Video]]/[[BBC Studios Home Entertainment|BBC Video]] DVD release of ''Walking With Dinosaurs'' (another rare case since Warner Home Video DVDs have no authoring logo).
 ===2nd Logo (2001-2004)===
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-'''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.
+'''Visuals:''' On a black background, the camera pans down to a metallic {{color|green}} plate right as a {{color|blue}} laser starts to cut into it. As the laser takes up the screen, it then cuts to the plate floating over a mass of light, rotating as the laser finishes cutting out the "'''v'''" (the "'''d'''" is already completed), letting the leftover material fall into the void. It then fades to having a "'''c'''" completed, and the laser cutting out a 2nd "'''c'''", having its material fall as well, and fully forming the "'''dvcc'''" logo from before. The camera then fades to a shot of the logo zooming out and positioning itself over the light, letting the rays illuminate the letters as "'''Digital Video Compression Center'''" fades in below. The logo and text continue to emit light rays and the plate shines until the logo fades out.
-'''FX/SFX:''' The laser, the letters cutting out, and the text fading.
+'''Technique:''' CGI.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' A buzzing sound followed by a tense rhythmic tune.
+'''Audio:''' A buzzing sound followed by a tense rhythmic tune.
-'''Availability:''' Common.
+'''Availability:'''
-*This is known to appear on [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox]] DVDs from late 2001 to mid-to-late 2004, such as ''Ice Age'', ''Garfield's Holiday Celebrations'', ''Bratz the Video: Starrin and Stylin'', ''Garfield as Himself'', the first four seasons of ''The Simpsons'', the first two seasons of ''Lost in Space'', seasons two to seven of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''The Girl Next Door'', a re-release of ''Speed'', the first season of ''Futurama'', ''The Simpsons Gone Wild'', ''Man on Fire'', ''Kiss of the Dragon'', ''28 Days Later'', ''Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'', ''The Bible: In the Beginning...'', ''Garfield and Friends: Volumes 1 and 2'', the first three seasons of ''Family Guy'', the first three seasons of ''24'', ''The Transporter'', ''Planet of the Apes'' (2001), ''Joy Ride'', ''Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House'', the first two seasons of ''King of the Hill'', ''Unfaithful'', the first seven seasons of ''M*A*S*H'', both ''Cocoon'' movies, the first season of ''Arrested Development'', ''Runaway Jury'', ''Solaris'' (2002), ''The Flight of the Phoenix'' (1965), ''Black Widow'' (1987), ''One Fine Day'', ''Brown Sugar'', ''Bill Cosby: Himself'', ''Daredevil'', ''X-Men 1.5'', ''X-2: X-Men United'', ''Robin Hood: Men in Tights'', ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'', ''In America'', ''The Passion of the Christ'', ''Welcome to Mooseport'', ''There's Something About Mary'', ''Drumline'', ''Predator'' (1987), ''The Day After Tomorrow'', ''High Crimes'', ''Moulin Rouge'', and ''The Long Hot Summer'', the 2004 DVD of ''Planet of the Apes'' (1968), and the 2003 DVDs of the first four ''Alien'' films.
+*This is known to appear on 20th Century Fox, Universal, and MGM DVDs from late 2001 to mid-to-late 2004.
-*It also appears on [[Universal Pictures Home Entertainment|Universal]] DVDs, such as ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas'', ''Halloween III: Season of the Witch'', ''Josie and the Pussycats'' (2001), ''The Fast and the Furious'', ''K-PAX'', ''American Pie 2'', ''The Mummy Returns'', ''American Me'', ''Mulholland Drive'', ''How High'', ''The Scorpion King'', ''Shenandoah'', ''Mobsters'', ''The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure'', ''The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water'', and a re-release of ''They Live''.
+*It also appears on some [[Artisan Entertainment]] and HBO Video releases, such as the 2003 Extreme Edition DVD of ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' and all four ''I Spy'' DVD releases.
-*On [[MGM Home Entertainment|MGM]] releases, this is known to appear on both ''Legally Blonde'' films, ''Ghost World'', the original release of ''Die Another Day'', ''Ghoulies II'', ''It Runs in the Family'', ''Rollerball'' (2002), ''Christmas Carol: The Movie'', and the Special Editions of ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', ''Escape from New York'', and ''Thelma and Louise''.
-*It also appears on some [[Artisan Entertainment]] releases, such as the 2003 Extreme Edition DVD of ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day''.
-*It even appears on some [[HBO Home Entertainment|HBO Home Video]] releases, such as ''I Spy: A Thing That Flings and Other Stories''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' This video 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.
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