HBO Home Entertainment: Difference between revisions

===1st Logo (August 5, 1987-1988)===

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'''Logo:''' On a {{Font color|blue|blue}} background, we see the HBO logo, and the word "VIDEO", in thin lettering, below. Two lines are seen above and below the logo.

'''Availability:''' This was a "placeholder" logo, used when the "primary" logo is not in use or not ready yet. Like its predecessors, HBO Video distributed [[TriStar Pictures|TriStar]], [[Thames|Thames]], [[Hemdale Film Corporation|Hemdale]], and [[Orion Pictures|Orion]] as well as HBO product, although Orion would shortly launch its [[Orion Home Video|own video label]]. Examples include ''Three Amigos!'' (its first appearance, and where this has been known to appear on prints made as late as 1999), ''Platoon'', ''Hoosiers'', ''Amazing Grace and Chuck'', ''Making Mr. Right'', ''How To Raise a Street Smart Child'', and some reissues of Thorn-EMI/HBO/Cannon releases.

===2nd Logo (1988-1993)===

'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see tons of red spheres, packed tightly together. As we zoom out, the spheres form into a gold HBO logo, with a {{Font color|blue|blue}} "{{Font color|blue|VIDEO}}" (in that same font described above) below. When they move into place, {{Font color|purple|purple}} bars move to their positions above and below the logo. When the logo is formed, a spotlight appears below the logo.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A warbly, bass-filled synth tune loosely based off the music in the "[[HBO Feature/Special Presentation IDs|HBO Movie]]" intro used at the time.

'''Availability:''' Although it's rare, it's not that difficult to find. It's seen on video releases of Thames, TriStar Pictures, [[De Laurentiis Entertainment Group]], [[Kings Road Entertainment|Kings Road]], Hemdale Film Corporation, [[Miramax Films|Miramax]], [[Weintraub Entertainment Group|Weintraub Entertainment]], and [[Samuel Goldwyn Films|Samuel Goldwyn]] material, but towards the end of its run, began to concentrate mainly on HBO-produced materials, including [[Time-Life Video|Time-Life]] titles previously released by Vestron Video. Among the tapes where this appears are ''Platoon'', ''Rock-a-Doodle'', ''No Way Out'', and reprints of ''Can't Stop the Music'', ''S.O.S. Titanic'', ''First Blood'', ''The Terminator'', ''Highlander'', and ''Raw Deal'', among other new releases and re-releases (some of which may still use the [[Thorn EMI Video|Thorn EMI]] or other original logo on the packaging and/or labels) of the era. It also appears on the Promotional Concept Group release of ''Three Amigos!''.

===3rd Logo (1993-2005)===

'''Availability:''' Seen on HBO VHS releases of the period. HBO DVDs used their own logo (see below), although some early HBO DVDs, such as ''A Bronx Tale'' and ''Circle of Friends'', have either this logo or the HBO Savoy Video logo intact. A few VHS releases included this logo well into 2005, such as Something the Lord Made, Everyday People and The Life & Death of Peter Sellers.

===4th Logo (1998-2005)===

'''Availability:''' Common.  

* Seen on all HBO DVD releases from 1998 to 2005, such as ''69*'', ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'', ''Gia'', the original releases of ''Rock-a-Doodle'' and ''Three Amigos'', as well as ''Flashpoint'', ''The Hitcher'', ''No Escape'', ''Lightning Jack'', ''Out of Season'', ''Band of Brothers'', ''Serial Mom'', ''Mr. and Mrs. Bridge'', ''Gotti'' (1996), ''The Grifters'', ''No Escape'', ''Tales from the Hood'', ''The Cannonball Run'', ''Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales'', ''Band of Brothers'', ''I Spy: A Thing that Flings and Other Stories'', ''My Left Foot'', ''Last of the Dogmen'', ''Here and Now'', ''Disappearing Acts'', both volumes of ''the Best of the Chris Rock Show'', ''The Changeling'', ''Pancho Villa'', ''Shadowlands'', ''Normal'', ''Citizen Cohn'', ''Twas the Night'', ''Switch'', ''Pumping Iron'', ''Out of Season'', ''Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead'', the first season of ''Entourage'', the first five seasons of ''The Sopranos'', the first four seasons of ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', all seasons of ''Sex and the City'', and ''Good Guys Wear Black''.

===5th Logo (2003-2006)===

'''Availability:''' Seen on many DVD releases by HBO from the period, such as ''Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure'', ''For Richer or Poorer'', season six of ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' and the 20th Anniversary Edition of ''Whoopi: Back to Broadway''.

===7th Logo (2009-2015)===

'''Availability:''' Common.  

*Seen on newer HBO releases such as the first four seasons of ''Game of Thrones'', all seasons of ''Boardwalk Empire'', all seasons of ''True Detective'', all seasons of ''True Blood'', and a re-release of ''Three Amigos!''.

'''Final Note:''' 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.