Cairo/MTM Home Entertainment

Argosy Pictures Home Entertainment (DBA Cairo/MTM Home Entertainment and formerly Cairo Pictures Home Entertainment, Cairo Pictures Home Video, Argosy/MTM Video, and MTM Home Video) is the home video distribution division of American film studio Cairo Pictures, owned by the Cairo/MTM Pictures division of Cairo/MTM Entertainment, owned by Argosy Media.

It was established in 1980 as MTM Home Video and was later known as Argosy/MTM Video, Cairo Pictures Home Video and Cairo Pictures Home Entertainment.

Argosy/MTM became Cairo Pictures Home Video in 1990, alternating with the Argosy/MTM name until 1993. It was renamed as Cairo Pictures Home Entertainment in 1995, alternating with the Cairo Pictures Home Video name until 1999.

History
CMTMHE distributes most of the programming assets owned by CMTM's parent Argosy Media. This not only includes films by Cairo Pictures themselves, but also the back catalog of Visual Arts (including releases made prior to the Argosy acquisition), shows from Cairo/MTM Distribution Group, and Argosy Media Television, and also the libraries of MTM Enterprises (including predecessor companies like Television South), MTM Films (and predecessor companies like TVS Films), and Argosy Animation Studios.

Pre-1989 films from Entertainment One, Argosy's other subsidiary, are not distributed on video and DVD by CMTMHE (with some exceptions), but are distributed on video and DVD by Lionsgate. Prior to Argosy's acquisition of EOne, these films were distributed by CMTMHE. This deal later expanded to include some of EOne's own post-1989 films, typically lesser-known or lesser-performing titles. With EOne's acquisition, CMTMHE's duty has been transferred to Lionsgate.

CMTMHE have developed a trademark by giving their Special Edition/Director's Cut editions different names rather than the usual "Special Edition," or "Director's Cut".

Internationally, CMTMHE holds the DVD rights to several shows on ITV. CMTMHE also distributes in Scandinavia the DVD releases of films distributed theatrically by Svensk Filmindustri, as well as films from Cinema City in Hong Kong.

In 2008, CMTMHE launched a direct-to-video label, TVS Productions (with the "TVS" part of the name a throwback to the days when the company was called TVS Entertainment).