Director's cut
The DVD and Blu-ray Disc of the film was released on December 1, 2009. The DVD contains the theatrical cut of the film with a featurette on the Moto-Terminators. The Blu-ray features both the theatrical cut and the R-rated Director's cut, which is three minutes longer (118 minutes), with bonus material including Maximum Movie Mode, a video commentary in which director McG talks about the film while it plays, featurettes, a video archive, and a digital comic of the first issue of the official film prequel comic. Both versions include a digital copy of the theatrical cut for portable media players. Target Stores will be the only retailer to carry the Director's Cut on DVD. On its first week of retail, "Terminator Salvation" debuted at the top spot of the Blu-ray charts, and second in the DVD charts, behind "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian". The film made $29,811,432 in domestic DVD sales bringing its total gross to $401,439,971 In 2019, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film in Ultra HD Blu-ray in Europe and Australia.