Universal Pictures Home Entertainment LLC,[1][2] often shortened to UPHE, is the home video distribution division of Universal Pictures, an American film studio owned by NBCUniversal, the entertainment unit of Comcast.

[8] Also in 1986, the company made agreements with Motown Productions[9] and with children's book publisher Price Stern Sloan.

These early, bare-bones editions quickly fell out-of-print when Universal started making their own DVDs.

[15][16][17] Universal was also the worldwide video distributor for DreamWorks titles (throughDreamWorks Home Entertainment) until 2006, when DreamWorks was sold to Paramount Pictures' parent company, Viacom, and as a result, Paramount Home Entertainment took over distribution.

In 2015, Funimation (now known as Crunchyroll, LLC), formed a multi-year home video distribution deal with UPHE.

In South Africa, UPHE distributes films on DVD and VHS through CIC Video in the 1980s and 1990s.

[24] UPHE's international operations are a carryover from the PolyGram Video days,[25] but UPHE operates a joint venture in Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment called Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Geneon USA shut down in late 2007, and Universal has licensed all of NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan's catalog to other companies rather than directly distributing them themselves.

[26][27] On October 3, 2014, Universal established global headquarters for its home video division in Los Angeles.

[29] Along with the announcement of the Universal/Warner Bros. NA physical home media joint-venture, Universal announced that they would begin distributing Warner Bros. titles in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan in the third quarter of 2020 through home video, while Warner Bros. announced that they would begin distributing Universal titles in the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in the first quarter of 2021 through home video.

[30] In 2020, SF Studios had signed a distribution deal with Universal to handle titles across the Nordic region.

[31] In early 2023 and late 2024, Plaion Pictures and Spirit Entertainment signed a distribution deal with Universal to handle titles respectively in Italy and the United Kingdom, which caused Universal's deal with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to expire in those countries.

Since early 2024, ESC Distribution now handles Universal's titles on home media in France.