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Alpha Video

Entertainment company founded in 1985 as New Age Video, based near Philadelphia

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Alpha Video is an entertainment company founded in 1985 as New Age Video, based near Philadelphia, that specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of public domain movies and TV shows on DVD. Since 2001, Alpha Video has released more than 5,100 titles and currently maintains a catalog of over 4,600 active titles.

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The public source identifies “Alpha Video” as entertainment company founded in 1985 as New Age Video, based near Philadelphia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alpha, Video and Entertainment.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alpha, Video and Entertainment providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alpha Video” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.