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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment | |
Formerly |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Home entertainment |
Founded | February 13, 1987 |
Headquarters | Walt Disney Studios, , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Tony Chambers (EVP, Theatrical Distribution) |
Products | Home media, digital distribution |
Brands | |
Owner | The Walt Disney Company |
Parent |
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Website | Disney Movies At Home |
Footnotes / references [1][2] |
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.[3] (doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, and other audiovisual content across digital formats and platforms.
For 37 years, Buena Vista Home Entertainment handled autonomous distribution of those properties in several traditional home media formats, such as VHSs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and 4K discs under various brand labels around the world. It was formed in 1987 as Buena Vista Home Video.[4] It was renamed to its current legal name in 1997,[3] although it is currently known in the UK as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (UK & Ireland) since 2013.[b] The division adopted the current Walt Disney Studios-branding in its public name in 2007, but kept the Buena Vista-branding for corporate use.[5]
In recent years, sales in the physical media market have significantly fallen due to the rise of digital media and streaming services like Disney's own Disney+, which has led the company to either let other home video distributors (such as Elevation Sales in the UK, and Studio Distribution Services in the US through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) handle distribution for them or exit out of the market depending on the region.
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