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WGBH Boston Video (1980–present) Random House Home Video (1983–2006, 2008-2009) Golden Books Family Entertainment (1985–2001) Wizard Video (1980–present) Viz Video (1993–present) HIT Entertainment (1996–present in the United Kingdom, 1998–2016 in the United States) Lyrick Studios (1988–2001) Shout! Factory (2002–present)
The "ultimate accelerant" for the rise of the "sell-through" home video market was the development of children's home video. [19] The pre-1980s conventional wisdom that consumers had no interest in watching the same films again and again at home turned out to be entirely wrong with respect to children.
Official logo used for Walt Disney Home Video c.1980s. Walt Disney Home Video is a discontinued video line launched to release Disney animated features on home video. This was done by a division of the same name under the parent Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company (WDTNT).
Artisan Entertainment (formerly known as U.S.A. Home Video, International Video Entertainment (IVE) and LIVE Entertainment) was an American film studio and home video company. It was considered one of the largest mini-major film studios [ 1 ] until it was purchased by later mini-major film studio Lions Gate Entertainment in 2003.
Early FHE releases were distributed by MGM/UA Home Video, including the very first release of few episodes of Gumby. [f] In the late 1980s, FHE's releases were distributed by MCA (most notably in Canada). [72] In 1982, the company introduced USA Home Video as a non-family division of the company.
BBC Video was established in 1980 as a division of BBC Enterprises (later BBC Worldwide) with John Ross Barnard at the head, just as home video systems were starting to gain ground. At launch, the BBC had no agreement with British talent unions such as Equity or the Musician's Union (MU), so BBC Video was limited in the television programming ...
12. Answering Machines. Stand-alone answering machines were how you “check your voicemail” in the ’80s. Answering machines in the 1980s typically used cassette tapes to record incoming messages.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment LLC [1] [2] (formerly Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, MCA Home Video, MCA Videodisc, and MCA Videocassette, Inc.) is the home video distribution division of Universal Pictures, an American film studio, owned by NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast.