In February 2011, Criterion began switching its VOD offerings exclusively to Hulu Plus. The Criterion Collection began to provide video-on-demand (VOD) in partnership with MUBI (formerly The Auteurs) in 2008. In 2005, Image Entertainment bought HVE making it the exclusive distributor of Criterion Collection products until 2013. The latter enterprise published HVE imprint films, for which Janus Films owned the video rights, but which were unavailable from the Criterion Collection however, Criterion published the Classic Collection films. The HVE company sold, advertised, marketed and distributed Criterion Collection DVDs, and also sold its own HVE brand of DVDs (co-produced with Criterion), including The Merchant Ivory Collection and the Classic Collection, a joint venture between Home Vision Entertainment and Janus Films. (PMI), which he had previously founded in 1968. In 1986, Charles Benton founded Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), the home-video division of Public Media Inc. On November 4, 2013, it was announced that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment would handle distribution.
The remaining three partners, Aleen Stein, Becker and Turell owned the Criterion Collection company, which has a business partnership with Janus Films and had one with Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) until 2005, when Image Entertainment bought HVE. Stein sold 42 Voyager titles to LTI from his Voyager/Criterion company share. In 1997, the Voyager Company was dissolved (Aleen Stein founded the Organa LLC CD-ROM publishing company), and Holtzbrinck Publishers sold the Voyager brand name, 42 CD-ROM titles, the Voyager web site and associated assets to Learn Technologies Interactive, LLC (LTI). In March 1994, Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH bought 20% of Voyager for US$6.7 million the four founders each retained a 20% owner's share. Turell founded the Voyager Company to publish educational multimedia CD-ROMs (1989–2000), and the Criterion Collection became a subordinate division of the Voyager Company. In 1985, the Steins, William Becker and Jonathan B. The company was founded in 1984 by Robert Stein, Aleen Stein and Joe Medjuck, who later were joined by Roger Smith.
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