Distributors
These are the most visible faces in the home video industry, who release the video programs.
Major studios (The Big Five)
Disney
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (also includes content from Touchstone Home Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures Home Video, Miramax Home Entertainment, Dimension Home Video, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
- 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment
- Magnetic Video Corporation
- The CBS/Fox Company (includes content from 20th Century-Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video, FoxVideo, Key Video, and Playhouse Video)
- ABC Video Enterprises
Paramount
- Paramount Home Media Distribution
- CBS Home Entertainment
- CIC Video (a joint venture between Paramount and Universal for distribution of product outside North America)
- Republic Pictures Home Video (also includes content from Spotlite Video)
Sony
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (also includes content from MusicVision, Magic Window, and SVS/Triumph Home Video)
- RCA SelectaVision
- Sony Video Software
- Sony Music Entertainment (also includes content from Sony Wonder)
- FUNimation Entertainment
- Madman Entertainment (anime and manga)
Warner Bros.
- Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
- HBO Home Entertainment (also includes content from Thorn EMI Video, Thorn EMI/HBO Video, and HBO/Cannon Video)
- Lorimar Home Video (also includes content from Karl Home Video)
- Turner Home Entertainment (also includes Turner-era PBS Home Video content)
- Warner Music Entertainment
Universal
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- MCA DiscoVision (also includes content from MCA Videodisc)
- Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment
- PolyGram Video
- DreamWorks Home Entertainment (also includes content from DreamWorks Animation)
- Geneon Entertainment
Minor studios
- Hasbro
- Entertainment One (Canada)
- Alliance Releasing Home Video (Canada)
- Entertainment One (Canada)
- Lions Gate Home Entertainment (also includes content from Vidmark Entertainment and Trimark Home Video)
- Artisan Entertainment (also includes content from U.S.A. Home Video, Caballero-era Monterey Home Video, U.S.A. Sports Video, Sybil Danning's Adventure Video, International Video Entertainment, Radio Vision Video, Carolco Home Video, and Live Entertainment)
- Anchor Bay Entertainment
- MGM Home Entertainment
- Cannon Video
- Orion Home Video (also includes content from Filmways Video)
Foreign companies
Argentina
Australia
- The Magnificent Seven
- CBS/Fox Video (South Pacific) (also includes content from 20th Century-Fox Video (South Pacific))
- CEL Home Video
- Playaround Video
- Star Video (contains content from Australian Video, Film World Festival, and Storytime Collection)
- CIC Video Australia (also includes content from CIC-Taft Video, Rigby-CIC Video, and Merlin Video)
- Roadshow Home Video (also includes content from Applause Home Video, Palace Video, and Premiere Home Entertainment)
- Thorn EMI Video Australia
- Video Classics
- Warner Home Video
- ABC Video Australia
- Madman Entertainment
- Seven Keys Video
- Syme Home Video
- Sundowner Home Video
- Videoscope
Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands)
Brazil
Canada
France
Germany
Greece
- Audio Visual Enterprises
- Kino Video
- Hellas Kosmos Home Video
- Home Video Center
- Home Video Hellas
- MTC Video
- Nea Kinisi Video
- Videosonic
Italy
Japan
- Columbia Music Video
- Daiei Video
- Eion
- Funai
- Nikkatsu
- Pack-in-Video
- Pony Canyon
- Shochiku Home Video
- TDK Super Video
- Toei Video
- Toho Video
- Tohokushinsha Home Video
- Tokuma Japan Communications
- Toshiba
- Towa Video
- VAP Video
- Victor
- Video Box
Mexico
UK
- Astra Video
- BBC Video
- Brent Walker Video
- Derann Video
- Entertainment in Video
- GO Video
- Guild Home Video
- Hokushin
- Intervision Video (also includes content from Alpha Video and Inter-Light Video)
- Iver Film Services
- Medusa Communications
- Mountain Video
- Odyssey
- Palace Video UK
- Precision Video
- Rank Video Library
- Video Collection International
- Strand Home Video (USA)
- Thorn EMI Video UK
- Video Gems UK
- Video Unlimited
- Virgin Video
- Vipco
- Walton Video
- World of Video 2000
Venezuela
Anime companies
- AnimEigo
- Bandai Visual
- Central Park Media (also includes content from Anime 18, Software Sculptors, and US Manga Corps)
- Funimation
- Geneon
- Manga Entertainment
- L.A. Hero (also includes content from U.S. Renditions and Dark Image Entertainment)
- Media Blasters
- Sentai Fireworks
- Streamline Pictures
- Viz Media
Other companies
- Amvest Video
- BCI Home Entertainment
- Cinedigm
- Vivendi Entertainment
- GoodTimes Entertainment
- HGV Video Productions (Canada)
- Sterling Entertainment Group (also includes content from United American Video)
- Celebrity Home Entertainment (also includes content from Just For Kids)
- Video Corporation of America
- Vivendi Entertainment
- Congress Video Group
- Continental Video
- The Criterion Collection
- Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
- Edde Entertainment (also includes content from T-Z Video, Ace Video, and High Desert Films)
- Fotomat Video
- Full Moon Features
- Wizard Video (also includes content from CultVideo and Force Video)
- Hallmark Home Entertainment (also includes content from Evergreen Entertainment)
- Harmony Vision
- Heron
- Media Home Entertainment (also includes content from Fox Hills Video and Hi-Tops Video)
- Video Form Pictures (UK)
- Image Entertainment
- Independent United Distributors
- Kartes Video Communications
- Kino Lorber
- Kultur Video
- Magnum Entertainment
- Mill Creek Entertainment
- Mogul Video
- Monterey Home Video
- MPI Home Video
- New World Video
- The Nostalgia Merchant
- Olive Films
- Pacific Arts Video (also includes Pacific Arts-era PBS Home Video content)
- Paragon Video Productions (also includes content from King of Video)
- PBS Distribution
- Prism Entertainment
- Raedon Home Video
- Random House Home Video
- Shout! Factory
- Super Video
- Trans World Entertainment
- Twilight Time
- Unicorn Video
- VCI Home Video (also includes content from United Home Video)
- VCII
- VCL
- Video Gems
- Video Yesteryear
- Well Go USA
- Wood Knapp Video
- WHAM! USA