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== Events ==
* MGM and CBS split their home video ties, with CBS Video Enterprises going alone, and MGM forming its own home video division, MGM/UA Home Video.
* '''January''':
** Andre Blay formed his own home video corporation, Andre Blay Corporation.
** Magnetic Video Corporation was renamed to 20th Century-Fox Video.
* '''June''':
** CBS Video Enterprises merges with 20th Century-Fox Video, forming CBS/Fox Video.
** RCA Records joins forces with Columbia Pictures, renames the existing Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment division to RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, after the prior international joint venture it started a year earlier.
* '''August''': Andre Blay Corporation was sold to Embassy Communications, becoming '''Embassy Home Entertainment'''.
* '''November 26''': RCA SelectaVision announces an agreement with MCA Videodisc for 20 Universal titles, to be released on the CED format beginning next year.
* '''December''': MGM/UA Home Video enters into a trial arrangement with Polygram Records for distribution of its catalog in select territories across the United States late in the month.
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! Title !! Label !! Distributor !! Released !! class="unsortable" | Note(s)
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| ''Abbott and Costello Cartoon Carnival #1'' || Video Communications, Inc. || United Entertainment || July 22, 1982 ||
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| ''Beyond the Fringe'' || Wizard Video || Family Home Entertainment || July 8, 1982 ||
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| ''Master Mind'' || Unicorn Video || Unicorn Video || July 29, 1982 ||
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| ''Music Box'' || Vanguard Video || United Entertainment || July 22, 1982 ||
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| ''The Music of Melissa Manchester'' || Warner Home Video || Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation || July 22, 1982 ||
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| ''Shoot the Moon'' || MGM/UA Home Video || MGM/UA Home Video || July 1, 1982 ||
* For rental only.
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| ''Sisters of Death'' || Video Communications, Inc. || United Entertainment || July 22, 1982 ||
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| ''Starvengers'' || Family Home Entertainment || Family Home Entertainment || July 22, 1982 ||
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| ''A Stranger Is Watching'' || MGM/UA Home Video || MGM/UA Home Video || July 1, 1982 ||
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| ''Superchick'' || Video Communications, Inc. || United Entertainment || July 22, 1982 ||
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| ''They All Laughed'' || Vestron Video || Vestron Video || July 22, 1982 ||
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