Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, Inc.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Formerly
  • WCI Home Video (1978–1980)
  • Warner Home Video (1980–2016)
Company typeDivision
IndustryHome entertainment
Founded1978 (1978)
Headquarters4000 Warner Boulevard, ,
U.S.
Key people
David Decker (president)
ProductsHome video releases
Services
ParentWarner Bros. Discovery
SubsidiariesStudio Distribution Services, LLC. (US/Canadian Joint-venture with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
Websitewww.warnerbros.com

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, Inc.[1] (doing business as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment;[2] formerly known as Warner Home Video and WCI Home Video and sometimes credited as Warner Home Entertainment) is the American home video distribution division of Warner Bros. Discovery.

It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (as a division of Warner Communications, Inc.). The company launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980.[3]

It is responsible for distributing the film and television library of Warner Bros. Discovery and other companies on various home media formats, such as DVD, Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray, digital, and streaming platforms. Some of the companies that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment distributes include Max, Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, DC Entertainment, DC Studios, Viz Media, HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TBS, TNT, TruTV, Turner Classic Movies, Rooster Teeth, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, HGTV, Food Network and among others.

  1. ^ "WarnerBros.com | Company Overview". www.warnerbros.com. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
  2. ^ "Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc - Company Profile and News - Bloomberg Markets". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  3. ^ Prince, Stephen (2002). A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980–1989. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 10. ISBN 9780520232662. OCLC 47990049.

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