EXCLUSIVE – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Home Video release

February 18, 2014 at 12:20 pm by greendragon -


Read about it here at TORn before this information is available anywhere else! Thanks to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, we can now bring you all the official information about when you will be able to take home The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. These are the release dates worldwide:

UK APRIL 7

USA APRIL 8

SPAIN APRIL 8

MEXICO APRIL 8

CANADA APRIL 8

ITALY APRIL 9

GERMANY APRIL 11

FRANCE APRIL 16

NETHERLANDS APRIL 16

BELGIUM APRIL 16

AUSTRALIA APRIL 16

BRAZIL APRIL 17

As ever, there are various options to choose from in your quest to own the Precious. Here’s what the WB press release tells us will be available in the US:



”The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be available on Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack for $105.43, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack for $44.95, on Blu-ray Combo Pack for $35.99 and on 2-disc DVD Special Edition for $28.98. The Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack includes two Gates of Erebor replica bookends from the Noble Collection and features the theatrical version of the film in 3D hi-definition, hi-definition and standard definition; only 25,000 will be available in the U.S. The Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack features the theatrical version of the film in 3D hi-definition, hi-definition and standard definition; the Blu-ray Combo Pack features the theatrical version of the film in hi-definition on Blu-ray; and the DVD features the theatrical version in standard definition. All versions include a digital version of the movie on Digital HD with UltraViolet.* Fans can also own The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in Digital HD on April 8th via purchase from digital retailers.”

And what exactly will be on these DVDs and Blu-rays? Read on – more from the press release:

“BLU-RAY AND DVD ELEMENTS

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack and 2-Disc Standard Definition DVD Special Edition contain the following special features:
Peter Jackson Invites You to the Set: In the Company of the Hobbit and Peter Jackson Invites You to the Set: All in a Day’s Work – Experience the film’s challenges and demands, and journey alongside the director into Mirkwood, Lake-town and Dale as the movie’s most intense, pivotal scenes are created
Production Videos – Watch production come to life as Peter Jackson gives you an inside look at the making of the film
New Zealand: Home of Middle-earth, Part 2 – Travel with Peter Jackson and his team across the stunning locations of New Zealand transformed by the filmmakers into Middle-earth
“I See Fire” Music Video – Ed Sheeran’s beautiful theme song from the film is illuminated with this intimate music video

DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION ELEMENTS

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be available for streaming and download to watch anywhere in high definition and standard definition on their favorite devices from select digital retailers including Amazon, CinemaNow, Flixster, iTunes, PlayStation, Target Ticket, Vudu, Xbox and others. Starting April 8th, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will also be available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellite providers, and on select gaming consoles.”

As soon as we have further information about what packages and formats will be available worldwide, we’ll bring you those details. Meanwhile, here’s a basic summary of what will be on sale in the US:

Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack $105.43

Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack $44.95

Blu-ray Combo Pack $35.99

2-disc DVD Amaray (WS) $28.98

Get ready to bring home a dragon! Don’t forget, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is still showing in quite a number of theatres, so you may be able to get your big screen Middle-earth fix whilst you wait the remaining weeks to get your hands on your own, personal copy.



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I missed this in theaters, so I will definitely pick this up and probably the extended cut as well whenever that is released.

so these are the theatrical releases?

Love of hate these films, they continue to have top-notch home video releases. As tempting as that big-ass boxed set looks, I'm thinking I'll wait for the inevitable six-film set, and even if I wasn't going to, the extended version of this one will be out shortly anyway. That means that it'll probably be December of 2015 before the big boxed set, damn I hate waiting, but it'll be worth it.

Yes, same as the first part and same as the LOTR trilogy. Theatrical then extended.

I'm picking up the theatricals as they come and waiting for a box of the extended after part 3 comes out.

Nice collector's set considering it's not even the EE version. I'm still going to wait for the EE, though.

This was the first LOTR/Hobbit film that I didn't see in theaters so I'm looking forward to picking up the Blu-ray. I bought the first Hobbit in a digibook at Walmart. Hopefully part two will have a similar exclusive. And like Milo Bloom, I'll buy the theatrical releases first and then pick up the extended box set when it's released.

I've been buying the 3D theatrical versions now and will pick up the EEs when they're in a combo set later on.

Just an FYI if this release follows the first Hobbit release schedule the EE should be available in mid November
The first EE followed 7 1/2 months after the theatrical version
But hopefully the EE comes out sooner

^ yes, it'd be nice if the EE would come out sooner - I am not interested in buying the theatrical cut as I thought it had some truly bad editing.

I missed it in theaters and will buy the 3D release. But I'm afraid that my days of buying oversized boxsets with pretty statues are over.

Running out of places to put them?

Wish they'd at least put these out in 30 frames per second instead of 24. I won't watch these until they put them out in something close to the original frame rate (tried to see both in theaters but just didn't have the time!)

Missed this in theaters after watching part 1 in theaters. Have a stockpile of unwatched discs (including LOTR extended trilogy) to get through first, but once they come with a set with the extended cuts I'm in for a good price

I wished they saved this artwork for the extended edition

I will more than likely buy this and then the extended edition down the road. Much like I did with the first one.

Can Blu handle that, especially with a film this long? And it was only to change the look of the 3-D version anyway, I don't think there was an HFR 2-D version. I saw it in 24 FPS 2-D and it looked fine to me.

That is my buying pattern also.

Given they choose to split these movies into two discs, the BD capacity is technically irrelevant. The issue however is that BD currently only does 30fps 3D at 720p.

Is it? Even spit across two discs, wouldn't the framerate still have a space issue? And even if it didn't, there'd still be the matter of which TVs could plays it back anyway. And if it'll only do 30 at 720, is it even capable of doing 48? In any even, I'm assuming the EE will be out in December to coincide with the third movie, the EE of #3 will the. Be out the following December to get one last year out of the franchise, and I wonder how long after that it'll be until the Ultimate Edition boxed set?

No, BD is not currently capable of 48Hz. HDMI 2.0 is capable, however. So hopefully the next format will take advantage of that.

Wouldn't be surprised if the movie initially had a longer running time, then was cut for theatrical length.

You referring to 48fps, right? Talk about a format that was more short-sighted than a blind man.

Peter Jackson, the only man on Earth who can make a three-hour film and still have material on the cutting floor. I'm sure there's more material for the EE of this, and hopefully it'll be an improvement. I'll certainly catch it, flaws and all, I eat up Jackson's Middle Earth.

24 or 48?

I was wrong. HDMI 2.0 does not support 48fps video.

They could change the frame rate to 50fps and it would technically be within the boundaries of HDMI 2.

HDMI 1.4 can support 3D at 50fps at a max resolution of 720p. HDMI 2, with the increased bandwidth, should support 3D at 50fps at 1080p.