Anchor Bay offered another budget reissue (10138) of the Video Treasures tape in July 1997. In October 1998 a new edition was released to VHS with a faux widescreen transfer, a teaser (wrongly called a ‘trailer’ on the keepcase) and a 12-min. featurette culled from excerpts of an unreleased 16mm documentary (see Bibl.). Liner notes taken from the press kit were printed on the inside sleeve. 

On their extremely scant DVD, the print was not much better in quality, and no booklet included (just a card listing the twelve chapter stops). For its price of $24 one would expect a little more from such a long-awaited DVD. Elite Entertainment was widely thought to own the rights to its DVD release, but their rights were only to produce the laserdisc. Compared to the discs they produced for Night and Dawn, done with Don May Jr. before he left the company to form Synapse Films, the Day "collector’s" laserdisc was disappointing and lacking anything special. It simply used the same art Media did (without the original Day logo), the same featurette and teaser Anchor Bay did, with about 30 mins. of behind the scenes effects footage borrowed from Tom Savini’s video journal on the set of the film. 

The special edition DVD (DV12090), released August 19, 2003, was the spectacular two disc edition fans were waiting for. Disc one had the 1.85:1 presentation with  Dolby surround or DTS-ES audio tracks. The audio commentary has Romero, Savini, Cletus Anderson and Lori Cardille. The alternate commentary is by Day fan and filmmaker Roger Avary, who provides another insight into the brilliance of everything Day. Disc two is packed with bonus materials. There's a 39 min. 'all new' documentary with on screen interviews with Mr. and Mrs. Romero, Savini, Cardille, Joe Pilato and Howard Sherman and co-producer David Ball. The next half hour is spent revisiting Savini's on-set video footage of the effects.  The last interview conducted with Richard Liberty is included, a Wampum Industrial Facility promo, hundreds and hundreds of production stills, poster, memorabilia and ad gallery, continuity stills supplied by Cletus Anderson. A DVD ROM feature allows fans to read PDF files of the original screenplays and Greg Nicotero's production memos. Originally he was going to write a book but producer Rubinstein wouldn't permit it. There are some mysterious dialogue changes such as one of John's lines where he says "shit I could do that even if all this wasn't going on", where shit is replaced by "right". The UFDC leader was restored but the Saturn soundtrack graphic removed at the end. In 2004 a single disc version (DV12635) with just the commentaries was issued with the same cover only with a blue-ish title.

The Japanese company Tohokushinsha managed to release it (TS-4637) on the same day as the Media version with a cover based on the Japanese style B poster. It had the poorer picture without question, but came with a rarely seen Japanese trailer and beat Anchor Bay to the teaser they used (the "wall of arms") by at least 12 years. The ultimate feature was the fact that it was the only version released in true stereophonic sound. The characters talking in the cave, you heard the echoes and turned up loud to simulate a theatrical experience can capture some of the tension and claustrophobia Romero intended. An instrumental version of "The World Inside Your Eyes" ends the film, with a graphic about the availability of the soundtrack at the end.

Only one scene was cut – for no conceivable reason: the one quick shot of Sarah first chopping Miguel’s arm. The laserdisc counterpart and VHD version (TFCD-1011) arrived in stores the same day (TS-S001). Another laserdisc arrived for the Japanese market May 29, 1997 from Japan Video Distribution (58JL-21), dubbed the "producer’s version." This actually was Taurus Entertainment’s TV version they were unable to license for broadcast in the States.

This version opens with the UFDC leader minus the ominous "stinger" audio. All profanity has been dubbed over with TV-friendly language: "shit" becomes "junk" or "hogwash", "dumb fucks" becomes "dirt bags", "fuck" becomes "freak", etc. Some of the dialogue is completely redubbed to comedic effect, like when at the meeting Rickles jokes "She don’t have to Captain. She’s got all kinds of needles to get off on. Hey baby, stick me and I’ll start to sing!" In the scene when Rhodes realizes Miguel’s escaped to the surface, he mutters "So he’s alive because of her".

Close-ups of the dissected corpse, of the brains, viscera, bitings, eatings, hackings, drilling and shooting are all cut out. Logan’s and Fisher’s deaths are intact for some reason while all shots to the heads of zombies have been cut, at some points, causing inconsistencies in the background music. The soldier deaths are heavily cut – you don’t even see what becomes of them, the scenes change after zombies grab them and pull them away. Both silo zombies are missing as well as the entire shovel gag scene.

France (Pioneer 100733) 12-13-99
Subtitled, 92 mins.

On PAL format, Great Britain saw various re-packagings of the Media (with the masks artwork on the EIV label (EVS-1026) in 1987, 4 Front Video/PolyGram (0868783 in 1993) and Anchor Bay videos (on the Arrow FC062 in 1997 and 4 Front label in June 1998) each with minor violence edits. Arrow issued a DVD (FCD062) on Oct. 4, 1999 of this edition as well.

4 Front Video/PolyGram (0610693) packaged Night of the Living Dead/Day of the Dead for Oct. 1999 together with a red-tinted cover of Red tinted Bub shaving.
Using its native art for a jacket, the German version from IMV (15-133) is heavily cut down to 92 minutes and the back cover erroneously reads (co-prod.) David Ball as producer and Miami Beach as the story’s locale. The Dutch saw an uncut version from BDM Video (004) with a well-composed collage cover depicting the three heroes with a larger than life Beef Treats zombie behind.