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Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980.

The company releases titles from the film and television library of Warner Bros. Studios, as well as programs from other Time Warner companies. Currently, they also serve as the U.S. distributor for television and/or movie product released by BBC, Lifetime, Cartoon Network, Turner Entertainment Co., Court TV, TNT and the National Geographic Society.

Some early releases were notable for being time-compressed in order to save tape time and money and to compensate for long-playing cassettes being unavailable in the early days of home video. One example was 1978's Superman in which the film was released in a 127-minute format, compared to its 143-minute theatrical release.

In the early 1980s, Warner Home Video was the U.S. distributor for the Mr. Men and Little Miss video series.

Warner Bros. began to branch out into the videodisc market, licensing titles to MCA DiscoVision and RCA's SelectaVision videodisc formats, allowing both companies to market and distribute the films under their labels. By 1985, Warner was releasing material under their own label in both formats.

Warner also experimented with the "rental-only" market for videos, a method also used by 20th Century Fox for their first release of in 1982. Two known films released in this manner were Superman II and Excalibur.

In 1997, Warner Home Video was one of the first major American distributors for the new DVD format, by releasing Twister on DVD. Warner executive Warren Lieberfarb is often seen as "the father of DVD".

In the UK, WHV distributes most of the DVD releases of Icon Entertainment, and also distributes Icon releases in Australia and Equinox Films releases in Canada.

In 2006, WHV announced they would enter the market of releasing original direct-to-video films, a market that has proven lucrative for studios over the past few years, and which has for the most part been dominated by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. They announced much of their output would be followups to films that had done well at the box office theatrically, but wouldn't be expected to do well if a sequel were to be made. The first release under the Warner Premiere banner is the prequel .

On September 26 2006, WHV became the first company to street a title in three formats on the same day and date with the home release of The Lake House on DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD. With Paramount Home Entertainment switching from neutral in the high definition video camp to solely to HD DVD in September 2007, Warner Home Video is now the only major distributor to support both high definition formats.

They also licensed Appleseed EX Machina, the sequel to the cult anime film Appleseed. ADV Films will produce the dub.

Also, for a number of years from the 1980s to the late 1990s, WHV was the distributor for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer video titles.

Added: October 4,2007 Thursday - Warner Bros. Home Video Gets Rights To Air,Distribute On DVD,Create,Make, Charlie Brown And Snoopy - Source Variety - Warner Bros. Home Video Gets Rights To Distribute On DVD Charlie Brown And Snoopy

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The home video business distributes films, telemovies and television series in the form of videos in various formats to the public. These are either bought or rented, then watched privately from the comfort of home by consumers.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., or Warner Bros. (pronounced Warner Brothers), is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment.

It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with its headquarters in Burbank, California.
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Time Warner Inc.

Public (NYSE: TWX )
Founded Merger between Time Inc. and Warner Communications (1990); subsequently purchased by AOL (2001)
Headquarters New York City, New York (incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware) [1]

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Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., or Warner Bros. (pronounced Warner Brothers), is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment.

It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with its headquarters in Burbank, California.
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Time Warner Inc.

Public (NYSE: TWX )
Founded Merger between Time Inc. and Warner Communications (1990); subsequently purchased by AOL (2001)
Headquarters New York City, New York (incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware) [1]

Key people Richard D.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Type Broadcast radio and television
Country  United Kingdom
Availability    National
International 
Founder John Reith
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Lifetime may refer to:
  • Life expectancy, the length of time a person is alive
  • Mean lifetime, a certain number that characterizes the rate of reduction ("decay") of a particle of an assembly

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Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. The original American channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 with the Bugs Bunny short Rhapsody Rabbit being its first-ever aired program.
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Turner Entertainment Company, Inc. is an American media company established on August 4, 1986 as a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting to oversee its film library after its acquisition of the MGM/UA Entertainment Company (now Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
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Court TV

Type Cable television network
Country United States and Canada
Availability    United States
Founder Steven Brill
Slogan "The Whole Truth", Daytime; "Seriously Entertaining"
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Availability
Satellite
DirecTV Channel 245
Channel 75 (HDTV)
Dish Network Channel 138
Channel 9420 (HDTV)
C-Band Galaxy 14-Channel 17
Cable
Available on most cable systems Check Local Listings for channels

Turner Network Television
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National Geographic Society, headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the world's largest not-for-profit educational and scientific organizations. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and
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Comic Book:
Jerry Siegel
Joe Shuster
Story:
Mario Puzo
Screenplay:
David Newman
Leslie Newman
Robert Benton
Mario Puzo
Creative Consultant:
Tom Mankiewicz
Starring Christopher Reeve
Gene Hackman
Marlon Brando
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Mr Men and Little Miss was a British television show that aired in the United Kingdom but was produced by Dargaud-Marina, a French company. In the United Kingdom, it originally aired from 1995 to 1997, and it aired again on Nick Jr. from 1999 to 2001.
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DiscoVision is the name of several things related to the video laserdisc format. It was the original name of the "Reflective Optical Videodisc System" format later known as LaserVision or LaserDisc.

MCA DiscoVision Inc.
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Capacitance Electronic Discs

The CED disc, exposed from protective caddy
Media type: video playback media
Capacity: 60 minutes NTSC video per side, 27,000 frames per side[1]
Usage: Home video
The Capacitance Electronic Disc (or CED
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Videodisc (or video disc) is a general term for a laser- or stylus-readable random-access circular disc that contains both audio and video signals recorded in an analog form.
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Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar).
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Subsidiary of News Corporation
Founded 1935, Fox Films founded in 1915
Headquarters Century City, California, USA

Industry Motion picture
Parent Fox Filmed Entertainment (News Corporation)
Website foxmovies.
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Comic Book:
Jerry Siegel
Joe Shuster
Story:
Mario Puzo
Screenplay:
Mario Puzo
David Newman
Leslie Newman
Creative Consultant:
Tom Mankiewicz
Starring Gene Hackman
Christopher Reeve
Ned Beatty
Jackie Cooper
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Excalibur is a 1981 film which retells the legend of King Arthur. It grossed USD$34,967,437 and was the 18th most successful film of that year.
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DVD

Media type: Optical disc
Capacity: 4.7 GB (single layer), 8.5 GB (dual layer)
Usage: Data storage, audio, video, games

Optical disc authoring
  • Optical disc
  • Optical disc image
  • Recorder hardware
  • Authoring software

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Twister is a 1996 disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont.
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The Father of DVD

Warren N. Lieberfarb is chairman of Warren N. Lieberfarb & Associates LLC (WNLA), a consulting and investment firm specializing in the media, entertainment, technology and retail industries.
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direct-to-video (also known as made-for-video, straight-to-video and, more recently, straight-to-DVD) is one which has been released to the public on home video formats (historically VHS) before or without being released in movie theaters or broadcast on
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the home video distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It was established in 1978 as Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment.
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