With a release date of November 7th, in time for the holiday shopping season, Warner Music Group (WMG) becomes the first of the major music companies to offer albums in the DVD-Audio format. The new format, which features Advanced Resolution(TM), multi-channel audio that dramatically enhances the listening experience, is the most significant industry format launch since the introduction of the CD nearly twenty years ago.

The first releases are: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5, conducted by Daniel Barenboim with the Staatskapelle Berlin; Core, by Stone Temple Pilots; Tigerlily, by Natalie Merchant; Johann Strauss in Berlin, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt with the Berlin Philharmonic; Brain Salad Surgery, by Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Hommage a l'Orchestre Lamoureux: Chabrier's Espana & Ravel's Bolero, with Orchestre Lamoureux conducted by Yutaka Sado; and The Bedroom Mixes, by the Jazz At The Movies Band. Regular monthly releases will follow. All of the recordings have been remixed from the original masters to take advantage of the optimal surround and stereo sound quality.

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Almost three months before Christmas, it may already be too late to get this year's hottest gift.
Stores have been taking orders since last year for Sony PlayStation 2, and now some have started waiting lists for shipments that won't arrive until 2001.

But unlike past toy crazes, retailers say, PlayStation 2 appeals to adults born in the '60s and kids born in the '90s. For about $300, people get a machine that plays DVDs as well as video games.

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Warner/Reprise Home Video is set to release OYE ESTEBAN!, a DVD compilation of greatest video hits and performance footage from Morrissey, who still holds the official record for selling out the Hollywood Bowl faster than any other artist. The seventy-minute collection is set for release on October 17th and features 18 tracks that chronicle the ever-evolving career of Morrissey, whose most successful U.S. albums are Your Arsenal (No. 21) in 1992, and Vauxhall & I (No. 19) in 1994. The OYE ESTEBAN! DVD is closed-captioned and is presented in linear PCM stereo for the finest sound quality.

Featured on OYE ESTEBAN! are five videos that have never before been available on a compilation: ``Seasick, Yet Still Docked,'' ``The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get,'' ``Boxers,'' ``Dagenham Dave,'' ``The Boy Racer'' and ``Sunny'' (which was released only as a bonus track on a 1997 maxi enhanced CD.) Also included is the previously-unreleased, ``Seasick, Yet Still Docked.'' Shot in 1992, the video for ``Seasick, Yet Still Docked'' makes its first appearance (in any form) on OYE ESTEBAN!

The complete track listing for OYE ESTEBAN! includes: ``Every Day Is Like Sunday,'' ``Suedehead,'' ``Will Never Marry'' (Live), ``November Spawned A Monster,'' ``Interesting Drug,'' ``The Last Of The Famous International Playboys,'' ``My Love Life,'' ``Sing Your Life,'' ``Seasick, Yet Still Docked,'' ``We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful,'' ``Glamorous Glue,'' ``Tomorrow,'' ``You're The One For Me, Fatty,'' ``The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get,'' ``Pregnant For The Last Time,'' ``Boxers,'' ``Dagenham Dave,'' ``The Boy Racer'' and ``Sunny.''

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The underwater thriller starring Rob Lowe (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) and Larisa Miller (Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later), ESCAPE UNDER PRESSURE, comes to video and DVD on November 14. An HBO premiere movie, ESCAPE UNDER PRESSURE was directed by Jean Pellerin and is available on DVD for $19.98 SRP. Available for rental on VHS, this release is rated R and has a running time of 91 minutes. (Order due date: October 31)

ESCAPE UNDER PRESSURE tells the story of Chloe (Larisa Miller), a Greek History Professor who becomes infatuated with a rare and valuable statue, the Icon of Artemis. When Chloe and her husband John (Rob Lowe) rescue the treasure on board a Greek Ferryboat, they become the targets of a ruthless mercenary. Hired by a wealthy collector, the mercenary sinks the ship in an effort to bring home the icon. Trapped underwater, Chloe and John struggle to survive and must risk their lives to ESCAPE UNDER PRESSURE.

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The sale and rental of digital video discs (DVDs) are exploding this year and will lead to a resurgence of growth for the overall retail movie market in the decade ahead, according to a series of reports prepared by Adams Media Research, and published in the bi-weekly Hollywood Aftermarket newsletter.

After just three years on the market, DVD players are on track to penetrate 12% of U.S. homes by the end of this year, making this the fastest roll-out of a consumer entertainment technology since black-and-white television in the 1940s. Those early adopting homes will spend a staggering $4.7 bil. renting and buying discs in 2000, up from $1.6 bil. last year, according to AMR. AMR's data appear regularly in the newsletters of its publishing partner, GRID Media.

Given the unprecedented levels of consumption the new packaged video format is inspiring among consumers, AMR projects that overall video rental spending (DVD discs & VHS tapes combined), which was $10 bil. in 1999, will jump to $13.6 bil. by 2005. Video sales, which were $9.2 bil. in 1999, will more than double to $19.2 bil. during the same time frame. By 2005, 61% of video rentals and 74% of video sales will come from DVD.

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Released This Week: The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 25th Anniversary Edition (2-Disc Set)The Rocky Ho (1975)

Was Great When It All Began…” Celebrate 25 Years Of Midnight Movie Madness! The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an “erotic nightmare beyond any measure.” Relive Richard O’Brien’s sinfully twisted salute to horror, sci-fi, B-movies and rock music – a “sensual daydream to treasure forever” – starring Tim Curry (in his classic gender-bending performance), Barry Bostwick and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon. Do the “Time Warp” and sing “Hot Patootie” with Meatloaf again…and again…and again…at home, or in a movie theater, where it will probably be playing for another 25 years!

Disc One:

·  Multi-story (U.K. or U.S. version): View the original cut or the new edition with the musical sequence “Superheroes” edited back in.

·  Commentary by Richard O’Brien and Patricia Quinn.

·  The Theatrical Experience: View Rocky Horror as you would in the theater, complete with introduction from RHPS fan club president Sal Piro. View audience reactions and performers in front of the screen at certain points throughout the film.

·  Prompter: “When do I squirt my water pistol and when do I scream?” This subtitle track will tell you.

·  DVD-ROM games, trivia and more!

Disc Two:

·  Excerpts and never-before-seen outtakes from VH1 Behind The Music: Featuring interviews with Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn and Meatloaf.

·  VH1 Pop-Up Video of “Hot Patootie!”

·  Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show