Paramount Home Entertainment

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**Paramount Home Entertainment** (formerly known as **Paramount Home Media Distribution**, and originally called **Paramount Home Video**) is the home video distribution arm of Paramount Pictures, a division of Paramount Global. The division oversees PPC's home entertainment and transactional digital distribution activities worldwide. The division is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment content on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television Studios, CBS, Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., VH1, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount+, HiT Entertainment (Alternative Universe Only), and applicable licensing and servicing of certain pre-2010 DreamWorks Pictures, Miramax, pre-2005 Dimension Films titles, and DreamWorks Animation films from 2006 to 2012, as well as select IFC Films titles and Saban Films titles. PHE additionally manages global licensing of studio content and transactional distribution across worldwide digital distribution platforms including online, mobile and portable devices and emerging technologies

## History

Before Paramount Home Entertainment was formed, Paramount released its video library through Fotomat. The relationship ended and Paramount soon formed its own video arm in 1979.

In the UK and other countries, the Paramount Pictures film library were released on VHS by CIC Video alongside Universal Pictures until 1999 before CIC was renamed to Paramount Home Entertainment UK and PolyGram Video was renamed to Universal Pictures Home Entertainment UK.

In 2008, PHE launched a direct-to-video label, Paramount Famous Productions (with the "Famous" part of the name a throwback to the days when the company was called Famous Players).

In 2011, due to a company restructure, PHE was renamed Paramount Home Media Distribution.

On May 6, 2019, PHMD reverted its name back to Paramount Home Entertainment, which is the name they carried from 1999 to 2011.

## HD DVD and Blu-ray support

Paramount brands the majority of its HD content under the label 'Paramount High Definition' which is seen both on the title box cover and as an in-movie opening. Films from Paramount subsidiaries such as Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films as well as from former sister studio DreamWorks use no special branding, Paramount Vantage (another subsidiary) releases only select titles under the Paramount High Definition banner.

On October 3, 2005, Paramount announced that it would be supporting the HD video format Blu-ray in addition to rival format HD DVD, becoming the first studio to release on both formats. Its first four HD DVD releases came in July 2006, and it released four titles on Blu-ray two months later. On August 21, 2007, Paramount (along with DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation) announced their exclusive support for HD DVD. However, when other studios eventually dropped HD DVD and players for the technology stopped being manufactured, Paramount switched to Blu-ray. On May 20, 2008, it released three titles on Blu-ray and continues to release its high-definition discs in that format exclusively.

## Sub-labels

### Current

#### Paramount DVD

**Paramount DVD** is a sub-label of PHE exclusively found on DVD releases, generally noted by a logo animation with a DVD flying into the Paramount mountain and taking the shape of the outline created by the mountain. Despite That Nickelodeon TV Show DVDs After 2004 Has This Logo Absent, This Logo Still Appears On Thomas & Friends DVDs Released By The Company.

#### Paramount High-Definition

**Paramount High Definition** is a sub-label focusing on home media releases of Paramount's film and television library in high definition video formats. Despite That This Logo and The Paramount DVD Logo Were Replaced With The Standard Paramount Logo From 2011-present, This Logo and The Paramount DVD Logo Are Still Seen In Alternative Universe Releases With **A ViacomCBS Company** Byline (2019-2022) or No Byline At All (2022-present).

### Former

#### Paramount Famous Productions

**Paramount Famous Productions** was a sub-label of PHE, handling films released exclusively to home video formats without a theatrical release. This label was closed in 2011.

#### Peanuts Home Video

**Peanuts Home Video** was a sub-label used under license from United Feature Syndicate to distributed episodes of *The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show* and *Peanuts* specials, including *Snoopy! The Musical*, *It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown* (marketing) and many more.

## Gallery

Logo Of **Paramount DVD** From 2003-2019 (Real World) and 2003-2019 (AU) Before The ViacomCBS Merge.Logo Of **Paramount High-Definition** From 2006-2019 (Real World) and 2006-2019 (AU) Before The ViacomCBS Merge.