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Logo descriptions by codyfinfe
Logo captures by Eric S., JohnnyL80, snelfu, and Dean Stewart Rumsey
Editions by codyfinke, mr3urious, V of Doom, Wisp2007, bmasters9, and Donny Pearson
Video captures courtesy of idolejeunes and JohnnyL80
Background: The CBS Television Network opened its own home entertainment division as CBS Video Enterprises, Inc. in 1978 to distribute all CBS releases on video, joining forces first with MGM one year later to form MGM/CBS Home Video, dissolving this venture in 1982 after MGM acquired UA one year ago, but shortly after this, CBS merged with 20th Century Fox to form CBS/Fox Video. Under this new label, two sub labels were created: Key Video (later reactivated as Key DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment), and Playhouse Video, but both became inactive in 1991, and CBS/Fox Video was reincorporated as Fox Video the same year, alternating with the CBS/Fox name until 1998 when Fox Entertainment Group acquired CBS's interest in CBS/Fox, and mainly for the merger of CBS with Viacom. After the merger was completed in 1999, CBS Video created CBS DVD for DVD releases of CBS shows in tandem with Paramount Home Entertainment, but both parent companies were split again at the end of 2005, with the "old" Viacom reincorporated as CBS Corporation, and the other retaining the Viacom name. On September 26, 2006, CBS Corporation merged this label with King World, CBS Paramount International Television (now CBS Studios International), and CBS Paramount Domestic Television to form CBS Television Distribution, relaunching this label as under its current name as CBS Home Entertainment one year later. However, PHE continues to distribute CBS DVDs as of 2008.
MGM/CBS Home Video
See MGM Home Entertainment for description.
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CBS/Fox Video
See 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for description.
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CBS Home Entertainment
1st Logo
(1993-1999)
Nicknames: "The Flipping CBS Eye", "CBS Box I"
Logo: On a black background, we see a box, with the CBS Eye insi
de the box, outlined with white, and a white rectangle with "CBS VIDEO" in the font seen here, at the bottomof the box, flipping diagonally. Then a "shine" reflects on the sides of the box as it stops flipping, as is becoming straight.
FX/SFX: The box flipping diagonally, the "shine" reflection.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Can be seen on tapes of On The Road with Charles Kuralt, as well as tapes of 1970s Dr. Seuss TV specials, such as the 1971 The Cat in the Hat TV special.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
2nd Logo
(1999- )
Nicknames: "The Globe", "CBS Box II"
Logo: On a gray/silver wall background, we see many colorful streaks (these are the same colors as the lights in CBS's 1992 ident), and a globe with the continents silver, are shown, then the CBS Eye comes to us, and a box with black inside it is where the CBS Eye would be, while the globe is covered in silver, and as we finish off, "CBS VIDEO" (or "CBS DVD" on DVD releases) is on the bottom of the box. The box is like the 1st logo.
FX/SFX: The animation in the logo.
Music/Sounds: A synthesized jingle with "air" that segues into the CBS Broadcast International/CBS Enterprises/Eyemark Entertainment jingle. Sometimes, it's silent.
Availability: Current. Seen on all I Love Lucy DVD box sets, all 3 volumes of The Wild Wild West on VHS, all six of the DVD releases of Hawaii Five-O, etc.
Scare Factor: Low, the effects may catch you off guard.
3rd Logo
(2009- )
Nickname: "CBS Vortex"
Logo: On a background full of spirals, we see five crescent-like shapes moving from the center to the right of us, unveiling a circle, and, at the same time two remaining crescent-like shapes flying in different directions. The two crescent-like shapes and the circle form the CBS Eye, which loops and zooms out to its position while "CBS" (in the same font used for the logos to Eyemark Entertainment and CBS Enterprises, both currently known as CBS Television Distribution, and CBS Broadcast International, now known as CBS Studios International) zooms out to the right of the CBS Eye and the words "Home Entertainment" appear below "CBS."
FX/SFX: The two crescent-like shapes and circle that forms the CBS Eye on a vortex-like background.
Music/Sounds: Same as the 2nd Logo
Availability: Currently seen on The Lucy Show season 1 DVDs, on the recent DVD release of the first season's worth of Hotel (also known as Arthur Hailey's Hotel), and the #7 (1974-75) DVD release of Hawaii Five-O.
Scare Factor: None to low. Overall it's a great logo.
Logo captures by Eric S., JohnnyL80, snelfu, and Dean Stewart Rumsey
Editions by codyfinke, mr3urious, V of Doom, Wisp2007, bmasters9, and Donny Pearson
Video captures courtesy of idolejeunes and JohnnyL80
Background: The CBS Television Network opened its own home entertainment division as CBS Video Enterprises, Inc. in 1978 to distribute all CBS releases on video, joining forces first with MGM one year later to form MGM/CBS Home Video, dissolving this venture in 1982 after MGM acquired UA one year ago, but shortly after this, CBS merged with 20th Century Fox to form CBS/Fox Video. Under this new label, two sub labels were created: Key Video (later reactivated as Key DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment), and Playhouse Video, but both became inactive in 1991, and CBS/Fox Video was reincorporated as Fox Video the same year, alternating with the CBS/Fox name until 1998 when Fox Entertainment Group acquired CBS's interest in CBS/Fox, and mainly for the merger of CBS with Viacom. After the merger was completed in 1999, CBS Video created CBS DVD for DVD releases of CBS shows in tandem with Paramount Home Entertainment, but both parent companies were split again at the end of 2005, with the "old" Viacom reincorporated as CBS Corporation, and the other retaining the Viacom name. On September 26, 2006, CBS Corporation merged this label with King World, CBS Paramount International Television (now CBS Studios International), and CBS Paramount Domestic Television to form CBS Television Distribution, relaunching this label as under its current name as CBS Home Entertainment one year later. However, PHE continues to distribute CBS DVDs as of 2008.
MGM/CBS Home Video
See MGM Home Entertainment for description.
_______________________________________________________________
CBS/Fox Video
See 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for description.
_______________________________________________________________
CBS Home Entertainment
1st Logo
(1993-1999)
Nicknames: "The Flipping CBS Eye", "CBS Box I"
Logo: On a black background, we see a box, with the CBS Eye insi
de the box, outlined with white, and a white rectangle with "CBS VIDEO" in the font seen here, at the bottomof the box, flipping diagonally. Then a "shine" reflects on the sides of the box as it stops flipping, as is becoming straight.FX/SFX: The box flipping diagonally, the "shine" reflection.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Can be seen on tapes of On The Road with Charles Kuralt, as well as tapes of 1970s Dr. Seuss TV specials, such as the 1971 The Cat in the Hat TV special.
Scare Factor: Minimal.
2nd Logo
(1999- )
Nicknames: "The Globe", "CBS Box II"
Logo: On a gray/silver wall background, we see many colorful streaks (these are the same colors as the lights in CBS's 1992 ident), and a globe with the continents silver, are shown, then the CBS Eye comes to us, and a box with black inside it is where the CBS Eye would be, while the globe is covered in silver, and as we finish off, "CBS VIDEO" (or "CBS DVD" on DVD releases) is on the bottom of the box. The box is like the 1st logo.
FX/SFX: The animation in the logo.
Music/Sounds: A synthesized jingle with "air" that segues into the CBS Broadcast International/CBS Enterprises/Eyemark Entertainment jingle. Sometimes, it's silent.
Availability: Current. Seen on all I Love Lucy DVD box sets, all 3 volumes of The Wild Wild West on VHS, all six of the DVD releases of Hawaii Five-O, etc.
Scare Factor: Low, the effects may catch you off guard.
3rd Logo
(2009- )
Nickname: "CBS Vortex"
Logo: On a background full of spirals, we see five crescent-like shapes moving from the center to the right of us, unveiling a circle, and, at the same time two remaining crescent-like shapes flying in different directions. The two crescent-like shapes and the circle form the CBS Eye, which loops and zooms out to its position while "CBS" (in the same font used for the logos to Eyemark Entertainment and CBS Enterprises, both currently known as CBS Television Distribution, and CBS Broadcast International, now known as CBS Studios International) zooms out to the right of the CBS Eye and the words "Home Entertainment" appear below "CBS."
FX/SFX: The two crescent-like shapes and circle that forms the CBS Eye on a vortex-like background.
Music/Sounds: Same as the 2nd Logo
Availability: Currently seen on The Lucy Show season 1 DVDs, on the recent DVD release of the first season's worth of Hotel (also known as Arthur Hailey's Hotel), and the #7 (1974-75) DVD release of Hawaii Five-O.
Scare Factor: None to low. Overall it's a great logo.
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How about calling this latest logo the "CBS Vortex"? That's what it looks like to me.
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