Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (former corporate name: Buena Vista Home Entertainment) is the home video distribution division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment also operates as Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Also, "Buena Vista" translated in Spanish is "Good View". Disney began distributing videos under its own label in 1978 under the name Walt Disney Home Entertainment, while Village Roadshow distributed the Disney home video titles in Australia throughout the 1980s, even in the UK, BBC Video / The Video Collection and Rank Video distributed the Walt Disney Home Video library throughout the 1980s.

Company structure

The company distributes DVDs under the labels Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment and Miramax Home Entertainment. With the advent of DVD and eventually Blu-ray, "Home Entertainment" replaced "Home Video" in label names.

MCA DiscoVision releases

Before Disney began releasing home video titles itself, it licensed some titles to MCA Discovision for their newly-developed disc format, later called Laserdisc. According to the Blam Entertainment Group website, which has extensive details of DiscoVision releases, only seven Disney titles were actually released on DiscoVision. One of these was the feature film Kidnapped. The others were compilations of Disney...
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