Watching this on DVD was a very upsetting experience for me as it's missing so many of the sound effects I vividly remembered from my youth (like when the Goblin king gets hit by the sword, etc.).
A) What happened? Did they forget to process a track on the stereo mixdown?
B) Is there a DVD that has everything audio-wise as it was on the ol VHS version?
A while back someone mixed the VHS audio with the DVD video. The result is named "The Hi-Fi Hobbit", which can be found online wherever movies aren't sold. As for an official retail version, we might have to keep waiting.
I'm shocked that there hasn't been a petition, especially with the total disaster I saw in the theater a few weeks ago calling itself "The Hobbit". You would think some purists would start to surface energized about seeing the definitive version of The Hobbit in its full glory?
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We don't need that. You can get the definitive version of "The Hobbit" almost anywhere... where books are sold.
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It's funny though. I bought the first edition DVD, and it seemed to have everything in it, but when I streamed it from Amazon last month, not only was the aspect ratio wrong, but there were Sound Effects and musical cues missing.
I wonder why they did that.