SSD

SSD (Southern Star Duplitek) was an Australian video cassette and optical disc manufacturer active until March 2002. Southern Star Duplitek, based in Sydney, was the manufacturing subsidiary of the Southern Star Group Ltd., which first listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1996. As a producer of cassette tapes, then CDs and DVDs, it was one of three wholly owned Australian divisions, the others being Southern Star Entertainment & Southern Star International. In August 2000, Technicolor invested a 37 per cent stake in SSD with an option for further future investment. In turn, this allowed SSD to buy out PMI (Pacific Mirror Image), taking over their plant at Braeside, Victoria. On 31 March 2002, Technicolor exercised its option to take full ownership of the company and bought out Southern Star Group Ltd.'s stake in SSD, since which time the manufacturing plant has been known as Technicolor, Australia. Matrix pattern Most CDs from the Braeside plant have the following matrix info: IFPI Lxxx - MADE BY SSD * [release catalogue number] * #[pressing number] SID codes IFPI LDxx - glass mastered at Sydney plant(?) IFPI L28x - glass mastered at Braeside plant (from August 2000 onward) IFPI 6L0x - pressed at Sydney plant(?) IFPI 46xx - pressed at Braeside plant (from August 2000 onward)