Editing Platoon (film) (section)

===Home media===
Due to a legal dispute between [[HBO Home Video]] and [[Vestron Video]] over home video rights, the film was delayed from its planned October 1987 release.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Dispute Delays Video Release Of 'Platoon' |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/04/10/dispute-delays-video-release-of-platoon/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903045707/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-04-10/entertainment/8701270620_1_vestron-video-platoon-and-hoosiers-video-release |archive-date=September 3, 2018 |access-date=September 2, 2018 |work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune |language=en}}</ref> After a settlement was reached, it was finally released on tape on January 22, 1988, through HBO, and then reissued on September 1, 1988, by Vestron.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MpQcAAAAIBAJ&q=hemdale+film+corporation&pg=PA20 |title='Platoon' video war ends; video due out on Friday |publisher=The Pittsburgh Press |language=en |access-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504025105/https://books.google.com/books?id=MpQcAAAAIBAJ&q=hemdale+film+corporation&pg=PA20 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> Vestron reissued the film twice, in 1991 and 1994. It made its DVD debut in 1997 through [[Artisan Entertainment|Live Entertainment]]. It was released again on VHS in 1999 by [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment|PolyGram Video]] (who briefly held the rights to the film through its purchase of the Epic library). The film was rereleased on DVD and again on VHS in 2001 by [[MGM Home Entertainment]] (who now owns the rights to the film through their purchase of the pre-1996 PolyGram Filmed Entertainment library).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Peers |first=Benedict Carver,Martin |date=October 22, 1998 |title=MGM closes in, again |url=https://variety.com/1998/biz/news/mgm-closes-in-again-1117481706/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903013526/https://variety.com/1998/biz/news/mgm-closes-in-again-1117481706/ |archive-date=September 3, 2018 |access-date=September 2, 2018 |work=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> MGM released the 20th anniversary DVD through [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]] in 2006 while [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]] released the Blu-ray version on May 25, 2011. [[Shout! Factory]] released the 4K remastered Blu-Ray on September 18, 2018, and released a 4K Ultra-HD/Blu-ray combo pack on September 13, 2022.<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1543991698543353858 |user=ShoutFactory |title=Bring home the Oscar-winning PLATOON on 4K UHD 9/13. Oliver Stone's anti-war epic tells the tale of a young Army recruit sent to Vietnam who witnesses the atrocities of war – many of which are carried out by supposed "comrades." |access-date=July 4, 2022}}</ref>