Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment was established in June 1978 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., to distribute films from Columbia Pictures on VHS, Beta, LaserDisc, and Super 8mm, with Warner Bros. titles being released by them on the latter format. The company achieved a significant milestone when it reached a deal with the National Captioning Institute, which allowed the non-profit organization to caption the company's video releases of Chapter Two, The China Syndrome, and the Special Edition cut of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, all of which were released in January 1981. The trio represented the first videocassettes ever released with closed captioning.
In 1981, Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment formed a joint venture with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), becoming RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. The company name also had other variants: "RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video" for international distribution, "RCA/Columbia Pictures Hoyts Video" in conjunction with Hoyts in Australia and "Gaumont Columbia RCA Video" in conjunction with Gaumont in France.
On August 23, 1991, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video was renamed Columbia TriStar Home Video after Sony acquired General Electric's 50% stake; that same year, CTHV moved its headquarters to 3400 Riverside Drive at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. In 1995, the company relocated its headquarters to the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. In 1997, it became an early adopter of the DVD format, alongside Warner Home Video, PolyGram Video, and Live Entertainment.
On February 28, 1999, Universal Studios Home Video signed a multi-year deal with CTHV to allow the latter to distribute Universal's international DVD releases. That same year, Columbia TriStar Home Video was renamed to Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment; the name was made official in early 2001. Sometime later, Universal opened their own international home video operations and dropped out of the CTHE deal. On November 18, 2004, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment was rebranded as Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the home entertainment distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, part of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a subsidiary of Japanese giant Sony Group Corporation.
The name change was made official on November 18, 2004. The logo (the third time an SPE division would publicly use the 1991 corporate Sony Pictures "bars" logo following Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment (now Sony Pictures Digital) and Sony Pictures Television), however, wouldn't debut on home media releases until April 12, 2005, finally ending the Columbia TriStar group name on its home entertainment banner. Like SPT's 2002 and 2020 "Studios" logos, the SPHE 2005 logo would mark the first time that no home entertainment VHS (produced until 2006), DVD, Blu-ray, PSP UMD (produced until 2009) or streaming releases which they distribute would ever include any references or emblems depicting the Columbia torch lady, the TriStar Pegasus or anything in relation to their natures.
SPHE is responsible for the distribution of the Sony Pictures film and television library for home entertainment, mainly releases from Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures, but also releases products from Sony Pictures Classics, Screen Gems, Destination Films, Stage 6 Films, Affirm Films and Sony Pictures Television, as well as selected miscellaneous output from independent companies, some older titles from Morgan Creek Entertainment, and starting in July 2024, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment in the United States and Canada.
From June 20, 2007 to September 19, 2023, SPHE handled direct-to-video releases by the former Sony BMG kids label, Sony Wonder, although they absorbed it in late 2020.
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