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Paramount Home Media Distribution (formerly known as "Paramount Home Entertainment", "Paramount Home Video", and "Paramount Video") is [[Paramount Pictures]]' home media division and was formed around 1978/1979 (some sources claim late 1975). The company owns the home media rights to films owned by Paramount and shows from sister company ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks (under individual labels such as MTV Home Video and other subsidiaries). The company also licenses the right to release material from CBS Corporation (such as CBS Television Studios/CBS Television Distribution and Showtime Networks material and released through CBS Home Entertainment, although CBS Films material is released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Lionsgate Home Entertainment) and several independent studios. They formerly released DreamWorks Animation material through DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment until 2014, when the latter acquired distribution rights to their library and transferred the rights to [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]] (currently owned by Disney). On September 27, 2011, Paramount Home Entertainment was renamed Paramount Home Media Distribution after merging with Paramount Digital and Television. Beginning in 2012, the Republic Pictures library and select Paramount films were licensed to Olive Films and Kino Lorber. From 2013 to 2016, the company licensed the home media rights to most of the Paramount Pictures (with some exceptions) library to Warner Home Video. Paramount continues to release licensed material and material from sister companies.

'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. Because VHS and Betamax were in their infancies at the time, releases were in lower quantities and are harder to find.

'''Logo:''' On a {{Font color|blue|blue}} background, we zoom out on a silhouette of a mountain. After we zoom out to a comfortable distance, a bright flash occurs behind the mountain, and white "stars" (they look like circles or lens flares) appear, as well as "Paramount" (in a school bus yellow script, but closer to the pre-1975 Logos). A saffron-colored trapezoidal trail zooms out from the base, and "HOME VIDEO" (set in the same font as the previous logo) zooms out soon after, tacked onto the saffron-colored trail. As that happens, the blue background gets extremely dark (looking like federal blue). The end result looks like the pre-1967 print logo.

'''Trivia:''' The second half of the logo was once used as the 1977 Paramount Television Service Logo. "PARAMOUNT TELEVISION SERVICE" was featured at the bottom, which means the chyron for "HOME VIDEO". The original version of the logo was produced by the design firm of Sullivan & Marks.

* Seen on VHS/Betamax releases of the time, which are not that easy to find, especially since the logo was usually taken off of post-1981 prints. However, since this was on a decent variety of movies, it may help a little.

*Don't expect this logo on Laserdisc releases, as it was replaced with the Laservision Logo.

'''Nicknames:''' "CGI Mountain", "90s Mountain", "Paramount"

'''Logo:''' It's the 1986 Paramount Pictures logo with no video indicator whatsoever. The difference here from the theatrical version is that the logo is videotaped; the picture quality is somewhat sharper and the color scheme is brighter than usual. On occasion, the logo begins much earlier than the theatrical variant.

*The Viacom version was also spotted at the beginning of Disney Channel/ABC Family (now Freeform) airings of ''Teen Witch'' as well as Trifecta's syndicated prints of ''There Goes the Neighborhood'' and ''Another 48. Hrs'', among others.

*Seen at the beginning of ''Blue's Clues: Meet Joe'' on VHS, while the closing 7th logo plays at the end.

*There is a very rare long version of the Gulf+Western logo where once we fade in, the logo doesn't really start for a few seconds. Also, once the "FEATURE PRESENTATION" text zooms in, there is a bronze screen for a split-second, then the warning screen appears.

'''FX/SFX:''' The CGI squares moving away and the animation on the Paramount square, which held up pretty well throughout the logo's lifespan, and was fully advanced for 1989.

*A variation exists where the announcer says "Paramount is pleased to bring you our feature presentation". This was used with all three byline variants, and can be found on Laserdisc releases, as well as VHS releases which have no previews before the film (such as the 1989 releases of the first four ''Star Trek'' films, the 1998 release of ''A Separate Peace'', the 2000 release of ''South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'', the 2001 release ''Nick Jr.'s Imagine That!'', any promotional copies of movies released by Paramount (with the exception of ''Harriet the Spy'', ''The Ghost and the Darkness'', ''The General's Daughter'', ''Coach Carter, The Longest Yard, Aeon Flux, A Night at the Roxbury'', ''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie'', ''Teletubbies: Naughty Noo Noo!'', ''Boohbah: Hot Dog'', and ''Nickelodeon Super Toons''), and the 1998 widescreen VHS release of ''Forrest Gump'', while the full screen version has the standard voice-over). This variant also appears on tapes made and sold exclusively through Columbia House (usually identifiable by the presence of an orange sticker on the cover). On rare occasions, this variation does appear right after previews, such as the 1996 VHS of ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' and its 2000 reprint, and a series of four videocassettes sold as part of a 1993 McDonalds promotion, including ''The Addams Family'' and ''Ghost'' (these releases have the Rank Home Video print logo on one of the spines on the slipcovers for those films and a face label on the tapes with a special red, yellow, black and white color scheme). Also seen on the 2006 VHS of ''Yours, Mine & Ours'' (2005 remake), which also has no previews.

*The last Paramount film released on VHS and to use this logo was the 2006 VHS of ''Yours, Mine & Ours'' (2005 remake), and the last tapes to use it overall were the 2006 VHS of ''Go Diego Go!: Diego Saves Christmas'', which is also the last retail Paramount VHS ever released, and the 2007 screener VHS releases of ''Wonder Pets: Save The Wonder Pets!'' and ''An Inconvenient Truth''.

*On the 1991 LaserDisc release of ''Apocalypse Now'', the 1991 VHS of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', the 1998 VHS release of ''Titanic'', and most French Canadian Paramount tapes after [[Malofilm Video (Canada)|Malofilm Video]] ceased distribution of Paramount titles, this logo is never shown at all, it just goes straight to the warning screen, while on the 1997 releases of ''The Godfather'' trilogy, the Logo cuts to a black screen before the 1995 [[THX]] Logo, as the warnings are placed at the beginning, separate from the Logo.

*This appears on demo and screener VHS tapes of PBS Kids shows from 2004 to 2006, such as ''Boohbah'', ''Caillou'', and ''Teletubbies''. The normal releases just begin with the warning screen used on Paramount DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

'''Nicknames:''' "Lined Mountain", "Paramount II"

'''Logo:''' On a black background with blue filmstrips, "Paramount" is seen being written in a gold color in its trademark font. As this is occurring, the background is opening up in segments to reveal the 1986 Paramount logo, without a byline and the stars in a light gold color.

'''Availability:''' Very rare. This logo was seen on VHS releases by the company from the era around the Christmas season of 1993 that were available in McDonalds restaurants. The releases included ''Charlotte's Web'', ''Ghost'', ''The Addams Family'', and ''Wayne's World''.

'''Availability:''' Rare. Seen only on the original North American release (both US and Canadian prints) of ''Mission: Impossible''.

</gallery>'''Nicknames:''' "CGI Mountain II", "Mount Paramount", "2000s Mountain", "Paramount III"

'''Editor's Note:''' Its existence was debated for a while, since its ruushed look (particularly the "DVD" text) does make it look like a fanmade logo.

'''Nicknames:''' "CGI Disc Mountain II", "Dark Mountain of Steel", "Dark Paramount", "Paramount VI"

'''Logo:''' It begins off with the 2002 Paramount logo animation with the stars flying through the clouds, the zoom out of the "Paramount" script, and the stars coming in and circling around the mountain. When we are at a comfortable distance, a DVD disc flies in from the bottom, glides and settles behind the summit and the Paramount script. Then, a bright flash underneath the peak brings forth "DVD" with a line below it, and the Viacom byline (in the same font as the 1990 Viacom logo) below the line. The background fades to black, and a white laser scans the disc in a downward motion, turning the entire DVD Paramountain silver. The finished product almost resembles the Paramount DVD print Logo.

</gallery>'''Nicknames:''' "Digital Mountain", "From SD to HD", "Digital Paramount", "Paramount VII"