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Digiview Studios (DBA Broad Green Pictures) is a production, home video and financing company. It was founded in 2000 as Digiview Productions, home video distributor that produced various public domain DVDs of cartoons, films, and a few others.

History
Digiview was founded in May 2000 by Brent Redstone (the son of Sumner Redstone, who was Viacom's founder). They released a large amount of public-domain movies and cartoons, which were sold primarily at Wal-Mart stores, as well as dollar stores and European mass merchants. The quality of their transfers varied greatly from disc to disc - some films were transferred from VHS and showed video defects from the tapes. They also produced titles for the Cartoon Craze series with public domain cartoons from Warner Bros. to Paramount's Famous Studios.

In 2004, Digiview released Animal Farm, made by Halas and Batchelor productions in 1954. Because the film had recieved a Super 8 release in the 1970s, Digiview had assumed that it was in the public domain. In fact, Joy Halas still owned the copyright, and filed a lawsuit against Digiview. The Animal Farm DVD was taken off the market and is extremely rare. Halas won the lawsuit, and Digiview decided to make a deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment later that year but still using the Digiview name and label. Digiview's other releases are still available at Wal-Mart and various dollar stores, and used copies can be found at various thrift stores, usually for around $3.

In 2006, Digiview Productions was renamed as Digiview Entertainment, with licensed films announced. However, Dgiview faced another lawsuit in 2008, this time by Hollywood studio Warner Bros., whose claim was to relase a single language version of one movie, which was reported to be in public domain.

In 2009, Digiview decided to public domain content, and placing more on official content. The same year, Digiview decided to end their deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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On December 10, 2014, Digiview became Bought by the Hammond Brothers (Daniel and Gabriel) and is renamed as Broad Green Pictures.