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** The merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications has been completed. As a result, HBO Video was picked up by Warner Home Video, merging HBO's marketing and distribution services.
** [[Media Home Entertainment]] sold its duplication division to [[MediaCopy|West Coast Video Duplicating, Inc.]]
** New World Entertainment sold many of its video assets to Trans Atlantic Entertainment, whowhich later licensed itthe assets to R&G Video, andwhich in turn secured a distribution deal with Starmaker Entertainment.
* '''February''': Strand VCI Entertainment was launched by Strand VCI plc. to market tapes for the American market.
* '''March''':
** The CBS/Fox Company switched overmoves to [[Deluxe Digital Studios|Rank Video Services America]] from [[Vantiva Supply Chain Services|Technicolor Videocassette]].
** In a move to strengthen The Walt Disney Company's position in the children's market, the company's children's music division label, Walt Disney Records, itself a division of the company's Disney Consumer Products unit, was split into two. One retains the current name and would be responsible for soundtrack and studio albums, while the other is called Disney Audio Entertainment, which would be responsible for the read-along album series.
** MCA Home Video establishes a new domestic marketing unit, MCA/Universal Home Video. It would adopt the name itself altogether within the next few months.
* '''May 14''': Private Screenings, Media Home Entertainment's erotic label, was renamed to Luna Video.
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** Barr Films had acquired KVC Home Video.
** Trylon Video went out of business.
* '''October 1''': RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video and GoodTimes Home Video mutually end their distribution agreement, after which ''Peter Pan'' is the last remaining GoodTimes title to be available through RCA/Columbia.
* '''October''':
** Warner Home Video begins marketing releases from MGM/UA Home Video.
** CBS Records announces that it will be renamed to Sony Music Entertainment after its parentcorporate organizationparent Sony Corporation loses the license to the CBS branding in January 1991.
* '''November''': New Line Cinema forms its own home video division, New Line Home Video.
* '''November 13''': MCA Distributing Corporation was renamed to Uni Distribution Corporation.
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| ''Priest... Live!'' || CBS/Fox Video Music || The CBS/Fox Company || February 15, 1990 ||
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| ''Sandi Patti: The "Make His Praise Glorious" Live Concert'' || Word Entertainment || PolyGram Distribution || February 27, 1990 ||
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| ''The Velveteen Rabbit'' || Family Home Entertainment || MCA Distributing Corporation || February 8, 1990 ||
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| ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: April Foolish'' || Family Home Entertainment || MCA Distributing Corporation || March 29, 1990 ||
* Sponsored by Burger King.
* Tapes with the standard labels were duplicated at WCVD in Brisbane and Mirror Image Duplication Services in Charlotte, while tapes with the Vestron-sized labels were duplicated at Technicolor Videocassette in Livonia.
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| ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga, Shredhead'' || Family Home Entertainment || MCA Distributing Corporation || March 15, 1990 ||
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| ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers'' || Family Home Entertainment || MCA Distributing Corporation || April 12, 1990 ||
* Sponsored by Burger King.
* Tapes with the standard labels were duplicated at WCVD in Brisbane and Mirror Image Duplication Services in Charlotte, while tapes with the Vestron-sized labels were duplicated at Technicolor Videocassette in Livonia.
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| ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Sky Turtles'' || Family Home Entertainment || MCA Distributing Corporation || April 19, 1990 ||
* Sponsored by Burger King.
* Tapes with the standard labels were duplicated at WCVD in Brisbane and Mirror Image Duplication Services in Charlotte, while tapes with the Vestron-sized labels were duplicated at Technicolor Videocassette in Livonia.
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| ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Great Boldini'' || Family Home Entertainment || MCA Distributing Corporation || April 5, 1990 ||
* Sponsored by Burger King.
* Tapes with the standard labels were duplicated at WCVD in Brisbane and Mirror Image Duplication Services in Charlotte, while tapes with the Vestron-sized labels were duplicated at Technicolor Videocassette in Livonia.
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| ''Try and Get Me'' || Republic Pictures Home Video || Republic Pictures Home Video || April 12, 1990 ||
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| ''Q&A'' || HBO Video || Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation || October 4, 1990 ||
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| ''Rear Window'' || MCA/Universal Home Video || Time-Life Video || October 11, 1990 ||
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| ''The Return of the Jedi'' || CBS/Fox Video || The CBS/Fox Company || October 11, 1990 ||
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| ''Total Recall'' || Carolco Home Video || MCA Distributing Corporation || November 1, 1990 ||
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| ''Vertigo'' || MCA/Universal Home Video || Time-Life Video || November 22, 1990 ||
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| ''The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone'' || Random House Home Video || Random House || Random House || 1990 ||
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| ''The Berenstain Bears: Play Ball'' || Kids Klassics Home Video || GoodTimes Home Video Corporation || GoodTimesRCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video Corporation || 1990 ||
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| ''Best Evidence: The Research Video'' || Rhino Home Video || Rhino Records || MCA Distributing Corporation || 1990 ||
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| ''The Heist'' || HBO Video || Warner Home Video || Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation || 1990 ||
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| ''History of the 20th Century'' || ABC Video Enterprises || MPI Home Video || Maljack Productions || 1990 ||
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| ''Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles'' || Rhino Home Video || Rhino Records || MCA Distributing Corporation || 1990 ||