Created in 1980, TLV pioneered the adoption of  VHS and Beta cassettes, selling individual programs directly to the public throughout the USA and Europe. TLV began offering movies, series and music by mailorder and retail on videocassette, on disc and DVD.  TLV’s rights to many titles were sold in 1983 to Austin Furst of Vestron Video and to Bill Ambrose of Ambrose Video, who rode the wave. 

Monica, as Assistant Business Manager in 1980, in her first job at Time Inc., was the second person at the world’s leading media/entertainment company to use a desktop computer (an Apple). As Business Manager, she  pioneered the marketing of video entertainment and instruction to consumers in “hard copy” VHS, Beta and DVD formats. In 1982 she was asked to sell the company’s assets to two executives.