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The print SPHE logo goes back to November 30, 2004 (first appearing on the DVD of Spider-Man 2), and these early SPHE releases (including reprints) still have either the 1993 CTHV logo, the 2000 CTHV logo, or the 2001 CTHE logo.
- Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment
- RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
- Columbia Tristar Home Video
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
1971, 1975–1977
This logo is simply a television-shaped tube with stripes and a white, simplistically stylized/abstract Torch Lady inside. However, it is unknown whether this showed up on covers for early Super 8mm, U-Matic, Cartrivision, Betamax or VHS releases of Columbia Pictures product or not, or whether this was ever a on-screen logo.
1982–1983
Again, the on-screen counterpart to this logo was only the 1981 Columbia Pictureslogo with no video indicator whatsoever.
1992–2001
This print logo debuted in 1992 on tape and disc covers of movies and TV shows on VHS and Laserdisc, In 1993, this replaced the previous print logo.
2004–present
The SPHE logo was first used as a print logo on November 30, 2004,although the onscreen variant was not introduced on any UMD, DVD or VHS releases until April 5, 2005. The previous CTHE logo was still used on British, Irish and French-Canadian VHS releases, however, until April 2006.
The logo resembles its 1976 movie counterpart. From 1982 to December 1991, Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment was known domestically as RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video and internationally as RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video.
It was first established in November 1979 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. as "Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment", to distribute films from Columbia Pictures on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, and Super 8mm, with Warner Bros. titles being released by them in the latter format.
- (December 25, 1991-September 9, 1992 (1993 in select international countries)) Nicknames: "CT Boxes", "The Boxes Cometh", "The First Box Logo", "Split Rectangle", "Prototype CT Boxes", "Columbia Tristar", "Rectangular Boxes", "80s CT Boxes"
- (August 26, 1992-April 14, 1993) Nicknames: "CT Boxes II", "The Boxes Take Form", "Dawn of the Boxes" Logo: On a white background, we see two boxes outlined with a black border.
- (May 19, 1993-March 27, 2001) Nicknames: "CT Boxes III", "Part III: Will This Logo Ever Die?!" , "Sliding Boxes", "Blue BG Boxes", "Day of the Boxes", "Cloudy Boxes", "Columbia Tristar III"
- (1995-1996) Nicknames: "CT Boxes IV", "Part IV: Take Hollywood Home!" , "Sliding Boxes II", "Land of the Boxes", "The Bedsheets", "The Boxes of Boredom Prototype", "Columbia Tristar IV"
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Distribution UK Ltd. – A British home video label that distributes Fox Pathé Home Entertainment (including MGM Home Entertainment releases) and Universal Studios Home Entertainment (including DreamWorks Home Entertainment and PolyGram Video releases).
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It was first established in November 1979 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. as "Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment", to distribute films from Columbia Pictures on VHS...
