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{{Infobox company | {{Infobox company | ||
|founded= | |founded=1979 | ||
|country=United States | |country=United States | ||
|image=Paramount Home Entertainment (2022).png | |image=Paramount Home Entertainment (2022).png | ||
|formerly=Paramount Home Video ( | |formerly=Paramount Home Video (1979-1999)<br>Paramount Video (1982-2011)<br>Paramount Home Media Distribution (2011-2019) | ||
|parent=[[Paramount Pictures]]<br>({{w|Paramount Global}}) | |parent=[[Paramount Pictures]]<br>({{w|Paramount Global}}) | ||
|key people=Bob Buchi (President)}} | |key people=Bob Buchi (President) | ||
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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
'''Paramount Home Entertainment''' | '''Paramount Home Entertainment''' is [[Paramount Pictures|'''Paramount''' Pictures]]' home media division, 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 Entertainment|MTV Home Video]] and other subsidiaries). The company also licenses material from several independent studios. | ||
The company was the final major Hollywood studio to release material on the Betamax format, with releases to 1993 in the wide market and up to 1996 with manufactured-on-demand titles (the last being ''Mission: Impossible''). 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 Studios Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]]. | The company was the final major Hollywood studio to release material on the Betamax format, with releases to 1993 in the wide market and up to 1996 with manufactured-on-demand titles (the last being ''Mission: Impossible''). 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 Studios Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]]. | ||
On September 27, 2011, Paramount Home Entertainment was renamed Paramount Home Media Distribution after merging with Paramount Digital and Television. Starting in 2012, the [[Republic Entertainment|Republic Pictures]] library and select Paramount films were licensed to [[Olive Films]] and [[Kino Lorber]]. From 2013 | On September 27, 2011, Paramount Home Entertainment was renamed '''Paramount Home Media Distribution''' after merging with Paramount Digital and Television. Starting in 2012, the [[Republic Entertainment|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 continued to release licensed material and material from sister companies. In May 2019, Paramount Home Media Distribution was renamed back to Paramount Home Entertainment. | ||
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