Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video (formerly "WCI Home Video"; the word "WCI" stood for "Warner Communications, Inc.", and also known as "Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc.") is the home entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner, founded in 1978 to distribute on video the film and television library of Warner Bros. Studios, and when Time Warner acquired them, programs from other Time Warner companies. Currently, they also serve distribution for television and/or movie products released by BBC (w/ 2 Entertain), Lifetime, Cartoon Network, Turner Entertainment Co., Viz Media, TruTV, TNT, National Geographic Society in the U.S., and products from the NBA, NFL, and NHL.

Cheesy Factor
Relatively primitive CGI (looking like it was designed on an Amiga computer, which it probably was), along with the "time-lapse" animation and cheap (and bombastic) synth theme (which is the remake of the Warner Bros. Pictures 1939 logo). The freeze frame on the still version looks cheap, too. This logo is cheesy for a Warner Bros. logo.

Video of the Warner (Bros.) Home Video logo (1986-1998)
Scare Factor:

• Original variant: Medium. The in-your-face animation, along with the time-lapse background and (mostly) the bombastic and loud fanfare could scare some of the viewers, specially when they was kids.

• Abnormal variants:

1st variant: Medium, bordering on high. The animation and the music was bad enough, but the shield "falling" towards you could make you run for the bathroom.

2nd variant: The shield goes up and then zooms out. Low, depends of what you think of the shield zooming out.

• For those who dare: Minimal.