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This page indexes the individual year in home video pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
- 1970 -
- 1971 - Year U-matic launched
- 1972 - Year Cartrivision launched
- 1973 -
- 1974 -
- 1975 - Year Beta launched
- 1976 - Year VHS launched
- 1977 - Magnetic Video, the first home video company to release theatrical films to tape, licenses 50 films from 20th Century Fox for VHS and Betamax release.
- 1978 - Year laserdisc launched. MCA issues Universal Studios film library onto laserdisc, and later adds Warner Bros. and Disney product as well.
- 1979 - Paramount and Columbia Pictures form Home Entertainment Divisions.
- 1980 - Walt Disney Productions enters home video market. MCA establishes MCA Videocasssette, Inc. for VHS and Betamax releases of the Universal Studios product.
- 1981 - Year CED and Wizard Video launched. Magnetic Video reorganized into Twentieth Century Fox Video.
- 1982 - PBV Distribution (Publishing & Broadcasting Video) becomes one of the biggest selling Australian video companies. In the mid-80s, it would later become Communications and Entertainment, Limited Star Wars is released on home videocassette, becoming one of the most demanded videos of all time.
- 1983 - JVC launches VHD format in Japan. Following a merger in 1982 between Twentieth Century Fox Video and CBS Video Enterprises, CBS/Fox Video is launched to the home video market, with divisions Key Video and Playhouse Video. In Japan, the Bandai-Emotion label is launched on VHS, and becomes one of the biggest selling Japanese home video labels ever.
- 1984 - The Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. decision (aka Betamax case)
- 1985 - Heron Communications launches the Hi-Tops Video label.
- 1986 - Video Gems is launched, and becomes a top seller in the UK home video market.
- 1987 -
- 1988 -
- 1989 -
