Editing RoboCop (section)

=== Home media ===
{{Anchor|Home release|DVD}}
[[File:Nixon shaking hands with RoboCop 1987.png|thumb|alt=Newspaper photo of former US president Richard Nixon shaking hands with someone dressed as RoboCop|[[Richard Nixon]] shaking hands with a costumed actor as part of a paid effort to promote the film{{sfn|Billboard|1987|p=58}}]]

''RoboCop'' was released on [[VHS]] on January 28, 1988, priced at $89.98;<ref name="LATimesVHS"/><ref name="LATimesVHS5"/><ref name="NYTimesVHS"/> and had an estimated $24{{nbsp}}million in sales.<ref name="UproxxRetro"/>{{efn-lr|The 1988 [[VHS]] cost of $89.98 is equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|90|1988}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}. The VHS sales generated an estimated $24{{nbsp}}million, equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|24000000|1988}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}.}} Orion promoted the film by having former United States president [[Richard Nixon]] shake hands with a RoboCop-costumed actor. Nixon was paid $25,000, which he donated to the [[Boys & Girls Clubs of America|Boys Club of America]].<ref name="IndieWireCast"/>{{sfn|Billboard|1987|p=58}} ''RoboCop'' was a popular rental, peaking at number one in mid-March 1988.<ref name="LATimesVHS2"/><ref name="LATimesVHS3"/> Rental demand outstripped supply; estimates suggested that there was one VHS copy of a film per 100 households, making it difficult to find new releases such as ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'', ''Predator'' and ''Platoon''. The longest waiting list was for ''RoboCop''.<ref name="LATimesVHS4"/> The film was released in [[S-VHS]] in 1988, one of the earliest films to adopt the format, and was offered free of charge when buying branded S-[[VCR]] players.<ref name="LATimesVHS"/>

The extended violent content removed from the U.S. theatrical release was restored on a [[Criterion Collection]] [[LaserDisc]], which included [[audio commentary]] by Verhoeven, Neumeier and Davison.<ref name="UproxxRetro"/><ref name="IndieWireLaserdisc"/> The uncut version of the film has been made available on other home-media releases.<ref name="UproxxRetro"/> It was released on [[DVD-Video|DVD]] by Criterion in September 1998.<ref name="IGNHomeMedia2007"/><ref name="IGNHomeMedia2008"/> In June 2004, the DVD version was released in a trilogy box set with ''[[RoboCop 2]]'' (1990) and ''[[RoboCop 3]]'' (1993). This edition included featurettes about the making of the film and the RoboCop design.<ref name="IGNHomeMedia2007"/> A 20th-anniversary edition was released in August 2007 which included the film's theatrical and uncut versions, previous extras, and new featurettes on the special effects and villains.<ref name="IGNHomeMedia2007"/>

Its scheduled [[Blu-ray]] debut in 2006 by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]] was canceled days before release, with reviews indicating poor video quality. A new version was released in 2007 by [[20th Century Studios Home Entertainment|Fox Home Entertainment]] without extra features.<ref name="EngagetBluRay"/><ref name="HiDefDigestBluRay1"/><ref name="HiDefDigestBluRay2"/> Reviews indicated that the film's visual quality had improved, but images were still perceived as grainy or too dark.<ref name="HiDefDigestBluRay2"/><ref name="BluRay2007BReview2"/> The trilogy was released as a Blu-ray Disc box set in October 2010.<ref name="IGNHomeMediaBluRay"/><ref name="IGNHomeMediaBluRay2"/>

The film was [[film preservation|restored]] in [[4K resolution]] from the [[original camera negative]] in 2013.<ref name="2013Restoration"/> A two-disc [[Special edition|limited-edition]] Blu-ray set was released in 2019 by [[Arrow Video]] which included collectible items (a poster and cards), new commentaries by film historians and fans, deleted scenes, new featurettes with Allen and casting director Julie Selzer, and the theatrical, extended and television cuts of the film.<ref name="BloodyDisgustingBluRay"/><ref name="SlantBluRay"/> Arrow re-released the set on [[Ultra HD Blu-ray]] in 2022, which included the uncut scenes re-scanned from the negative to match the quality of the theatrical-cut scans.<ref name="BluRay2022Slate"/><ref name="BluRay2022Dread"/>