List of years in home video

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This page indexes the individual year in home video pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.

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[edit] 20th century

[edit] 1970s

  • 1970 -
  • 1971 - Year U-matic launched
  • 1972 - Year Cartrivision launched
  • 1973 -
  • 1974 -
  • 1975 - Year Beta launched
  • 1976 - Year VHS launched
  • 1977 - Magnetic Video, the first home video company to release theatrical films to tape, licenses 50 films from 20th Century Fox for VHS and Betamax release.
  • 1978 - Year laserdisc launched. MCA issues Universal Studios film library onto laserdisc, and later adds Warner Bros. and Disney product as well.
  • 1979 - Paramount and Columbia Pictures form Home Entertainment Divisions.

[edit] 1980s

  • 1980 - Walt Disney Productions enters home video market. MCA establishes MCA Videocassette, Inc. for VHS and Betamax releases of the Universal Studios product.
  • 1981 - Year CED and Wizard Video launched. Magnetic Video reorganized into Twentieth Century Fox Video.
  • 1982 - PBV Distribution (Publishing & Broadcasting Video) becomes one of the biggest selling Australian video companies. In the mid-80s, it would later become Communications and Entertainment Limited. Star Wars is released on home videocassette, becoming one of the most demanded videos of all time.
  • 1983 - JVC launches VHD format in Japan. Following a merger in 1982 between Twentieth Century Fox Video and CBS Video Enterprises, CBS/Fox Video is launched to the home video market, with divisions Key Video and Playhouse Video. In Japan, the Bandai-Emotion label is launched on VHS, and becomes one of the biggest selling Japanese home video labels ever.
  • 1984 - The Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. decision (aka Betamax case)
  • 1985 - Heron Communications launches the Hi-Tops Video label.
  • 1986 - Video Gems is launched, and becomes a top seller in the UK home video market.
  • 1987 -
  • 1988 -
  • 1989 -

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 21st century

[edit] 2000s