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Warner Home Video is a Home Video company founded in 1978 as '''WCI Home Video''' (for Warner Communications, Inc. ). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980 . The company releases titles from the film and television library of Warner Bros. Studios . Some early releases were notable for being time-compressed in order to save tape time and money and to compensate for long-playing cassettes being unavailable in the early days of home video. One example was the 1979 release of '''' in which the film was released in a 127-minute format, compared to its 143-minute theatrical release. Warner Bros. began to branch out into the videodisc market, licensing titles to MCA DiscoVision and RCA's SelectaVision Videodisc formats, allowing both companies to market and distribute the films under their labels. By 1985 , Warner was releasing material under their own label in both formats. Warner also experimented with the "rental-only" market for videos, a method also used by 20th Century Fox for their first release of '' Star Wars '' in 1982 . Two known films released in this manner were '' Superman II '' and '' Excalibur ''. In 1997 , Warner Home Video was one of the first major American distributors for the new DVD format, by releasing '' Twister '' on DVD. It is a division of Time Warner company Warner Bros. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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