Columbia House: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Created page with "'''Columbia House''' was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the '''Columbia Record Club''', established in 1955. The brand was introduced in the early 1970s and had a significant market presence during then, as well as the 1980s and early 1990s. == History == In 1981, Columbia Records' parent company, CBS Inc., formed the CBS Video Library, which not only released content from CBS Productions, CBS Inc.'s te..." |
→Trivia: As confirmed by my copy of "Blue's Clues: ABC's & 123's" (which I got in the mail today) which was distributed by Columbia House but still preserves the opening trailer reel anyway. |
||
(101 intermediate revisions by 14 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
'''The Columbia House Company''', simply known as '''Columbia House''' and formerly known as '''CBS Direct Marketing Services''', was an umbrella brand for CBS Records' mail-order services. The brand had a significant market presence during the mid-to-late 1970s, as well as the 1980s and early 1990s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Columbia House operated a joint venture with Disneyland/Vista Records (an umbrella music company formed in Q1 1971 from a merger between the labels Disneyland Records and Buena Vista Records; later known as Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes and Walt Disney Records), called Vista Marketing, Inc., which sold albums from both Disneyland and Buena Vista.
== History ==
In 1981,
In
== List of
* Columbia Record Club/Columbia House Record Club/Columbia House Music Club (1955-20??)
* Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (1988-2002)▼
* Columbia House Video Club (198?-2006)
* Paramount Home Entertainment (1988-2002)▼
* Columbia House Laserdisc Club (19??-200?)
* MGM/UA Home Video (1993-1999)▼
*
** Turner Home Entertainment (1988-1997)▼
== List of Divisions ==
** New Line Home Video (1992-2002)▼
* CBS Video Library/Columbia House Video Library (1981-2005)
* Columbia House TV on DVD (????-????)
== Known duplicators for the Columbia House Video Library ==
* [[Deluxe Video Services|Deluxe Media Services]] (19??-2005)
* [[MediaCopy]] (19??-2005)
* [[Premiere Video]] (19??-200?)
* [[Technicolor Video Services|Technicolor Home Entertainment Services]] (1987-2005)
** [[The CBS/Fox Company (Duplicator)|The CBS/Fox Company]] (198?-1987)
== List of Columbia House Video Club Customers ==
** Walt Disney Home Entertainment (19??-20??)
* Columbia TriStar Home Video/Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (198?-2005)
* CBS/Fox Video/FoxVideo/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (198?-2005)
* Family Home Entertainment (some copies of ''Speed Racer: The Movie'')
* Paramount Home Video/Paramount Home Entertainment (198?-2005)
** Nickelodeon Video/Nickelodeon Home Entertainment (1996-2005) (some copies of ''Blue's Clues'', ''Little Bear'' and ''Rugrats'' tapes, perhaps among others)
* MCA/Universal Home Video/Universal Studios Home Video (19??-2005)
* MGM/UA Home Video/MGM Home Entertainment (19??-2005)
** Orion Home Video (1990s)
=== Known duplicators ===
* [[Allied Vaughn]] (19??-200?)
* [[Deluxe Video Services|Deluxe Media Services]] (1992-2005)
* [[MediaCopy]] (19??-2005)
* [[Premiere Video]] (19??-200?)
* [[Technicolor Video Services|Technicolor Home Entertainment Services]] (19??-2005)
== List of Columbia House Record Club Customers ==
* Disneyland/Vista Records/Disneyland/Vista Records & Tapes/Walt Disney Records (197?-1995)
** Disneyland Records
** Buena Vista Records
* Distinguished Productions (197?-198?)
** Sesame Street Records
* I.R.S. Records (1980s) (some copies of ''The Go-Go's: Vacation'', perhaps among others)
=== Known duplicators ===
* [[Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation]] (19??-????)
** CBS Manufacturing Company (1955-????)
== Trivia ==
* Some copies of the 1996 release of ''Heavy Metal'' from Columbia TriStar Home Video and the 2001 re-releases of ''A Rugrats Chanukah'' and ''Blue's Clues: ABC's & 123's'' from Paramount Home Entertainment that were sold through the Columbia House Video Club reuse video masters that preserve previews.
* Some copies of certain releases from Orion Home Video that were sold through the Columbia House Video Club may use the Orion Home Video logo watermarks on the plastic wrap.
* Some copies of certain releases from Paramount Home Entertainment that were sold through the Columbia House Video Club, such as ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'' and ''Harriet the Spy'', may use the generic face label (compared to retail copies which normally may use a customized face label); ''The Rugrats Movie'' is one exception to this note, as Columbia House Video Club copies of that title use the customized face label (the same one that retail copies used).
* Pre-2001 MediaCopy pressings of releases from Paramount Home Entertainment branded under the Nickelodeon Video label that were sold through the Columbia House Video Club normally use generic dark orange cassette shells, compared to Deluxe Media Services and Cinram pressings sold through the Columbia House Video Club and/or retail which normally use bright orange cassettes.
** Compared to pre-2001 Deluxe Media Services and Cinram pressings of ''Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie'' that were sold through retail which use blue cassettes, MediaCopy pressings of the title sold through the Columbia House Video Club used generic dark orange cassette shells.
== Locations ==
|