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On January 14, 2020, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment announced that they would partner on a 10-year multinational joint-venture. In North America, their physical distribution operations were merged into a company named Studio Distribution Services, LLC.[1] Internationally, Universal distributes Warner Bros.' titles in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan; while Warner distributes Universal's titles in the United Kingdom (until 2025), Italy (until 2024) and Benelux.[2] On April 7, 2020, the European Commission approved the merger.[3] Since June 1, 2021,[4][5][6] SDS' logo took the WBHE logo's place on the back covers of the home releases; while there have been several exceptions, mainly manufactured on demand titles including 4K[7][8] (also steelbooks)[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and Blu-ray releases.[16][17][18][19][20]
On June 24, 2024, it was reported that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment had entered into a distribution deal with SDS to handle the physical distribution of their titles.[21]
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- Via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment pre-SDS merger.
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