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[[File:Warner Bros. Home Entertainment logo 2019.svg|thumb|150px|Warner Bros. Home Entertainment print logo used from 2020 until 2024.]]
On January 14, 2020, [[Universal Pictures Home Entertainment]] and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced that they would partner on a 10-year multinational joint-venture, merging their physical operations in North America.<ref name="Venture">{{cite web |last1=D'Alessandro |first1=Anthony |title=Universal & Warner Bros. Form Home Entertainment Joint Venture |url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/universal-warner-bros-form-home-entertainment-joint-venture-1202831261/ |website=Deadline |access-date=15 January 2020 |language=en |date=15 January 2020}}</ref> On April 7, 2020, the European Commission approved the merger and a year later, WBHE started distributing Universal's home media releases in the UK, Italy (until 2024) and Benelux.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediaplaynews.com/european-commission-approves-warner-universal-home-entertainment-joint-venture/|title = European Commission Approves Warner, Universal Home Entertainment Joint Venture – Media Play News}}</ref> The company was later named [[Studio Distribution Services]], LLC.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hunt|first=Bill|date=April 23, 2021|title=BILL'S ON THE LATEST HOME THEATER UNITED PODCAST, PLUS AN APPLE DIGITAL PURCHASE LAWSUIT & WARNER AND UNIVERSAL COMBINE THEIR PHYSICAL MEDIA OPERATIONS|url=https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/042321-1400|access-date=May 6, 2021|website=thedigitalbits.com}}</ref> SDS does not use an on-screen logo
Starting in 2022, due to the finalization of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, WBHE will distribute the television libraries of Discovery-owned networks including the flagship [[Discovery Channel]] and [[Animal Planet]].
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