 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment logo used since 2007 | |
| Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment | |
| Formerly |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Home entertainment |
| Founded | February 13, 1987 (as physical media distributor) 2024 (as physical media licensing) |
| Defunct | February 20, 2024 (as physical media distributor)[1][2] |
| Fate | Physical media operations transferred to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment then to Studio Distribution Services via SPHE. Its labels remain in use on Sony/SDS-distributed releases. |
| Successors | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (physical media, 2024) Studio Distribution Services (physical media via SPHE, 2024–present) |
| Headquarters | Walt Disney Studios, , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Tony Chambers (EVP, Theatrical Distribution) |
| Products | Home media, digital distribution |
| Brands | |
| Services | Digital distribution (2024-) Physical distribution (1987-2024) |
| Parent |
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| Website | Disney Movies At Home |
| Footnotes / references [3][4] | |
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.[5] (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 physical 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.[6] It was renamed to its current legal name in 1997,[5] 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.[7]
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) handle distribution for them or exit out of the market (such as Australia) depending on the region.
Their releases are currently distributed by Studio Distribution Services, a joint venture between Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, via a distribution deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, who released the company's content on home video briefly in 2024.
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- ^ Morris, Chris (February 21, 2024). "Disney shutting down Disney Movie Club as it moves further away from physical media". Fortune.com. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ Hunt, Bill (June 24, 2024). "Paramount sets Bringing Out the Dead for 4K Ultra HD, plus Sony signs a new distribution deal with SDS that includes Lionsgate, Disney & 20th Century". thedigitalbits.com. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
- ^ "BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT, INC. C1399345". California Business Search. State of California. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
- ^ Magiera, Marcy (December 11, 2013). "MacPherson, Marinelli, Tarantino Inducted Into Variety's Home Entertainment Hall of Fame". Variety. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
- ^ a b "BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT, INC". Corporation & Business Entity Database. New York Department of State. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
- ^ Sonntag, Lynn E. (February 13, 1987). "Articles of Incorporation of Buena Vista Home Video" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
- ^ Fixmer, Andy (April 25, 2007). "Disney to Drop Buena Vista Brand Name, People Say (Update1)". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on September 18, 2011. Retrieved November 28, 2012.