Home Media Magazine
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Home Media Magazine is a weekly trade publication that covers various aspects of the home entertainment industry, most notably DVD. Also covered is news relating to consumer electronics, video games, home video distributors, video-on-demand and Internet downloads of copyrighted content. The magazine includes reviews of new DVDs and commentaries about issues affecting home entertainment.
The magazine was founded in 1978 and was known as Video Store Magazine until 2005, when it became Home Media Retailing. To further its consumer focus, the magazine dropped "Retailing" at the beginning of 2007.
The magazine is based out of Santa Ana, California, and is a subsidiary of the Questex Media Group. The magazine is a sister company of Home Entertainment Events, which plans a number of trade shows and conventions throughout the year, including various DVD conferences, the annual Entertainment Merchants Association convention held each July in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the annual AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, also in Las Vegas.
As a result of this association, HM publishes a number of ancilliary guides for many of these conventions, which it co-sponsors. A notable exception is the AVN show, for which HEE produces the program independently. HM does not cover the porn industry.
In July 2006, HM launched a consumer magazine called Agent DVD, which is intended as a semi-regular periodical focusing on home entertainment news. The first issue debuted at the 2006 Comic Con International in San Diego, California, and focused on titles and news that would appeal to convention-goers. Co-sponsors of the first issue included Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Tower Records and Video.
Home Media Magazine retains a professional alliance with The Hollywood Reporter, which includes an exchange of stories and information, though they are owned by different entities.
