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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the home entertainment distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, part of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It was first established in November 1979 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. as "Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment", to distribute films from Columbia Pictures on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, and Super 8mm, with Warner Bros. titles being released by them in the latter format.
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment began its life in 1978 through MCA DiscoVision as "Walt Disney Home Entertainment". In 1980, Disney content was made available on videocassette under its own division known as "Walt Disney Home Video". Prior to 1981, their first releases were only live action films such as Pete's Dragon and The Love Bug. Starting in 1981 with Dumbo, they began releasing their animated films and cartoons on video.
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, the home entertainment division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of WarnerMedia (formerly "Time Warner"), first started off in 1980 as Warner Home Video (initially as "WCI Home Video"; "WCI" stood for "Warner Communications, Inc.") to distribute on video the film and television library of Warner Bros. Studios, and when Time Warner acquired them, programs from other Time Warner companies.
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Fox Entertainment Group acquired CBS's interest in
CBS/Fox and renamed it to "
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment" on March 16, 1995, alternating with the
Fox Video name until 1998. The studio was the last major holdout to release its product on DVD, releasing its first seven discs in November of that year, one month after
Paramount Home Entertainment released its first DVDs. After
The Walt Disney Company's purchase of Fox in 2019, the name would be retired on-screen in 2020 with the rename to 20th Century Studios, and future home media releases would use a shortened version of the movie logo starting with the video release of
The Call of the Wild, while the 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment name was still used for copyright holding purposes until December of that year.
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On December 9, 1996,
MCA/Universal Home Video renamed itself as "Universal Studios Home Video" when MCA was reincorporated as
Universal Studios. It began to distribute titles from third-party companies, like
Lionsgate Films,
October Films,
DreamWorks Pictures and
The Kushner-Locke Company.
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USA Home Entertainment (not to be confused with "
U.S.A. Home Video", one of
Artisan Entertainment's former labels) was the successor to
PolyGram Video, as well as the home video division of
USA Films and
Studios USA Television LLC. It was owned by media mogul Barry Diller through HSN's USA Networks, Inc. (now NBCUniversal). On May 7, 2002, USA Home Entertainment was folded into Universal Studios Home Video (now known as
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment).
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Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly "
Paramount Home Media Distribution", "
Paramount Home Video", and "
Paramount Video") is
Paramount Pictures' home media division and was formed in 1979 (some sources claim late 1975). The company owns the home media rights to films and shows owned by Paramount and shows from sister companies CBS Entertainment Group (under the label
CBS Home Entertainment; the pre-2006
Paramount Television library is released under this label as well) and Paramount Media Networks (under individual labels such as
MTV Home Video and other subsidiaries). The company also licenses the right to release material from several independent studios.
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DreamWorks Home Entertainment was the home media unit of
DreamWorks Pictures, formed in 1998.
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In 1997, the
UA name was dropped from
MGM/UA Home Entertainment, renaming it to
MGM Home Entertainment. The assets of the former
Orion Home Video was transferred to MGM itself, as well as picking up the pre-1996 PolyGram film library.
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In May 1987, amid financial issues,
Cannon Films sold the assets of
Thorn EMI and dropped out of
its joint venture with HBO not long after. From that point on, HBO operated the video label on their own, renaming the label
HBO Video (it was also known as
HBO Home Video from 1993 to 2005). The label was renamed again in 2009, this time to
HBO Home Entertainment. In 2020, HBO Home Entertainment was absorbed into
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Since then, newer home media releases of HBO material bear the WBHE name instead.
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