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Cinram opened its first CD plant in 1987, when records and cassettes were still dominant. In the 1990s, the company started investing in manufacturing operations in Europe, and in 1997, when video-store racks were still filled with VHS tapes, Cinram formed a joint venture with Pacific Ocean Post (POP) to form "Cinram DVD Center POP" and began ...
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment logo used as corporate logo from 2017 until 2020. In 2009, Warner Home Video introduced the Warner Archive Collection, which allows the public to order custom-made DVDs of rarely seen films and TV series from the Warner and Turner libraries. The films are also available as digital downloads.
The company's DVD division, Warner Advanced Media Operations (WAMO), helped design the high-density format used in DVDs, and manufactured some of the first DVDs in the late 1990s. [ 5 ] The company was sold to Cinram International in October 2003 and no longer exists under the name WEA Manufacturing, but the Olyphant plant continued to operate ...
The Warner Archive Collection is a home video division for releasing classic and cult films from Warner Bros.' library. [1] [2] It started as a manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD series by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on March 23, 2009, with the intention of putting previously unreleased catalog films on DVD for the first time. [3]
DIC Video (1987–1994, distributed by GoodTimes Home Video and Simon Marketing from 1989 to 1992, Buena Vista Home Video from 1993 to 1994 and Golden Book Video from 1987 to 1989) DIC Toon-Time Video (1992–2001, distributed by BMG Video before 1993 and Buena Vista Home Video after 1993) WGBH Boston Video (1980–present)
In 1996, Warner Bros. spearheaded the introduction of the DVD, which gradually replaced VHS tapes as the standard format for home video in the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s. [42] In 1999, HBO became the first national cable television network to broadcast a high–definition version of its channel. [43]
Turner Home Entertainment - folded into Warner Home Video as an in-name-only unit in December 1996; Turner Japan - Japanese division which operations were absorbed into Discovery Japan on 1 August 2023; Turner Pictures - folded into Warner Bros. Turner Program Services - folded into Warner Bros. Television Distribution; Vivolta (20% stake)
Time Warner gradually switched to DVD keep-cases in 2004 when they sold Ivy Hill to Cinram, who later dropped the format in 2005 due to a lack of interest. By the mid 2000s, Time Warner had switched to a new form of keep case , which reduced the amount of plastic used by removing some non-structural plastic which formed the recycling symbol in ...