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{{Infobox company
| name = Ocean Shores Video Limited
| native_name = 海岸錄影有限公司<br />海岸貢獻
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| industry = [[Cinema of Hong Kong]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1970}}
| defunct = {{End date and age|2010}}
| founder = [[Charles Heung]]
| location_city = 1711 Hang Lung Centre, Paterson St. Causeway Bay
| area_served = [[Central, Hong Kong|Central]]<br />[[Des Voeux Road]]<br />[[Victoria Harbour]]
| key_people = [[Charles Heung]]<br />[[Jimmy Heung]]
| products = [[Home video|Home Video]]s
| owner = [[Win's Entertainment|Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.]]
| parent = Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.
| divisions = Ocean Shores Video (USA) Inc.
| subsid = Omni Video Cassette
| location_country = [[Hong Kong]]
}}
'''Ocean Shores Video Limited''' ({{Zh|t=海岸錄影有限公司}} or {{Zh|t=海岸貢獻}}) is the home video division of [[Win's Entertainment|Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd]]. The company is owned by [[Television Broadcasts Limited]], the entertainment division of [[Panasonic Corporation|Panasonic]], [[Pioneer Corporation|Pioneer]], and [[Philips]] was a [[Hong Kong]]–based distributor of [[Hong Kong action cinema|martial arts films]] in the 1980s.

Ocean Shores was a video company that ran major distribution rights to many of the biggest indie and later [[Shaw Brothers]] and [[Orange Sky Golden Harvest|Golden Harvest]] movies. They concealed the rights to American releases of many classic [[chopsocky]] titles and even had videos released in Europe under the inter-ocean label. They were never a film production company, just a video distributor. All their titles were released in full screen format, suffering from bad cropping, like many of the videos released in the earlier era of video. Many feature dubbed soundtracks. These videos have become collector's items. They also had a short run of now very hard to get [[LaserDisc|laserdiscs]].

Ocean Shores Video was purchased by [[Win's Entertainment]] (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. in 1990.

The company was founded in 1970 as Hong Kong Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd with the [[Betamax|Beta]] and [[VHS]] label Diamond Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd in 1979 with the release of films on Beta and VHS, including [[Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur]]. In late 1980, both the [[Laserdisc]] sister label U Best Laser World and the VHS/Beta label U Best Corporation (Hong Kong) Co Ltd were consolidated into a single entity Fitto Production (Hong Kong) Co Ltd, alternating with the Charles Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd name until 1984. In 1990, with the 20th anniversary of Ocean Shores, it became Ocean Shores Video (Hong Kong) Co Ltd, alternating company ventures created and added on new various company names, including Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd, which was launched since 1990.

This company was the video distributor for [[Celestial Pictures]] titles until [[BoB and Partners Co. Ltd.|BoB and Partners (Hong Kong) Co Ltd]] was sold to Shaw Brothers Vision Enterprise (Hong Kong) Co Ltd/Golden Harvest Pictures (Hong Kong) Co Ltd in 2008, at which point Shaw Brothers took over distribution. After Golden Harvest sold BoB and Partners to [[Dentsu]] on 1 January 2008, Ocean Shores Video started distributing BoB and Partners films on video since 1 January 2008.

In addition to DVDs, Ocean Shores was a major supporter of the [[HD DVD]] format until 1 January 2008 when Pioneer discontinued manufacturing of HD DVD players. Since 1 January 2008, Ocean Shores released [[Blu-ray]]s; it was the last major [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood movie]] studio to do so. The label's first Blu-ray releases were [[w:id:Indosiar|Arti Sahabat]] films starting with [[w:id:Indosiar|Arti Sahabat The Movie]] in anaglyphic format on [[Videotape format war|Beta]] and Video Home System (VHS) at [[Videocassette recorder|Video Cassette Recorder]] (VCR) under on [[Betamax|Sony Betamax]].

On 30 December 2010, Ocean Shores Video acquired exclusive [[Indonesia]]n rights to [[w:id:Indosiar|Arti Sahabat]] films starting with ''[[w:id:Indosiar|Arti Sahabat The Movie]]'' (co-production with Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd).

Win's is the Hong Kong video distributor for [[STAR TV (Asia)|STAR TV Filmed Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd]] releases and [[Media Asia Entertainment Group|Media Asia Entertainment Group (Hong Kong) Co Ltd]] releases.

==Internationally==
Ocean Shores distributes most [[DVD]]s of films released theatrically through [[w:id:SCTV|Formatara Prima Sejati]] in Indonesia, although this is now limited to catalog releases as more recent films are now released through [[w:id:SCTV|Vision Home Entertainment]].

It also distributes [[TV3 (Malaysia)|Spectrum Musical Publishing (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd]] DVD titles in [[Malaysia]], most of the Gold Best (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd theatrical library in Malaysia, and most of the [[MediaCorp|Kawah Films Production (Singapore) Pte Ltd]] library in [[Singapore]]. In the 1980s until the late 1990s, they also distributed tapes released by [[Taiwan Television|UFO Record (Taiwan) Co Ltd]] in [[Taiwan]].

Ocean Shores previously distributed its films on video internationally through [[BBC World Service Television]] (a division of [[Australia Network|Australia Television International]]) alongside [[Television Corporation of Singapore]]. Following Ocean Shores’ acquisition of Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd in 1990, Ocean Shores Video (which had international operations) was folded into Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd.

The international operations are a [[joint venture]] with [[Sony Pictures Television International]], a carry-over from the [[MGM Worldwide Television|MGM International Television Distribution]].

==Films==
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*''{{Interlanguage link|Arti Sahabat: The Movie|id|3=Indosiar}}'' (Co-produced with Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd)

==See also==
*[[Cinema of Hong Kong]]
*[[Hong Kong action cinema]]

{{Cinema of Hong Kong}}
{{Region 3 home video}}

[[Category:Film production companies of Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Mass media companies established in 1970]]
[[Category:1970 establishments in Hong Kong]]
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