Seen on the initial batch of twenty-four VHS and Betamax tapes, including The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ben-Hur, An American in Paris, Network, Jailhouse Rock, Coma, The Street Fighter, and the Bolshoi Ballet productions of The Nutcracker and Giselle.Music/Sounds: An uninspired synth tune which sounds like the opening of a news program. A forward slash appears in-between ' MGM' and ' CBS' on the last note of the music.įX/SFX: The slash appearing, and the zooming effects. We fade to another set of green lines sort of shaped like a room, which zoom back to bring another copy of the words, and then ' AN' and ' HOME VIDEO PRESENTATION' zoom into their respective places. Logo: On a black background, the words ' MGM' and ' CBS' in white and in Helvetica font fly in from the top and bottom of the screen, with green lines on the top and bottom of each letter respectively. MGM/CBS Home Video 1st Logo (October 1980-April 6, 1981) Home Entertainment for all catalog releases and United Artists Releasing titles since Bones & All, finally unifying all of the MGM catalog titles (along with the legacy UA catalog) under the same roof for the first time in over two decades.

TCFHE's worldwide distribution deal distributing the MGM library was expected to expire in September 2011, but it was later extended to end until sometime in 2016, and again on June 27, 2016, when MGM extended its deal with TCFHE until June 2020.Īs of late 2022 in the United States, MGM releases are distributed on home media by Studio Distribution Services, with United Artists Releasing titles initially through Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (from Operation Finale to Women Talking and the eventual 26th James Bond film) and Warner Bros. Outside North America, MGM sold their international home video operations to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.įollowing MGM's acquisition by the Sony-led consortium in 2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment began distributing the MGM library on home video until May 31, 2006, when MGM shifted most of its home entertainment output to 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for worldwide release (although Sony and Fox traded off releases throughout the rest of the year as part of a transitional period). Around 1997, the UA name was dropped, renaming it as MGM Home Entertainment. On March 24, 1997, MGM/UA began releasing its titles on DVD (with A Streetcar Named Desire and The Wizard of Oz on launch day), and managed to release over 30 titles from the Turner catalog on DVD (due to their video distribution deal) until it was transferred to Warner Home Video in 1999 (after MGM ended their distribution deal with Warner Bros.) and folded Orion Pictures with all its owned-library into this company. In 1995, this division was renamed to MGM/UA Home Entertainment (logo is still the same name, though) and also launched MGM/UA Family Entertainment. In 1990, after MGM was purchased by Pathé, MGM/UA signed a deal with Warner Home Video to have them distribute its titles exclusively on video. Pictures library, a fraction of some UA material, and most US rights to the RKO Radio Pictures library (although RKO retains the copyrights to their films)) was acquired by Ted Turner and forming Turner Entertainment Co., MGM/UA Home Video signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-1986 MGM and the pre-1948 Warner Bros. In 1986, after MGM's pre-1986 library (including most of the pre-1950 Warner Bros. MGM/CBS Home Video was later renamed to MGM/UA Home Video in 1982 after CBS ended its venture with MGM since MGM acquired United Artists a year earlier.

In 1979, MGM joined forces with CBS Video Enterprises, the home video division of the CBS Television Network, and established ' MGM/CBS Home Video', which released its first VHS batch (consisting of 16 MGM titles and 8 CBS Video titles) in October 1980. MGM Home Entertainment was founded in 1973 originally known as MGM Home Video by releasing its film and television libraries on video.

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