BUZZ THE NOISE, THE DEALS AND THE SCHEDULING.Byline: - Rob Lowman CONJURING MORE 'POTTER' SCENES: This might be the ultimate baby-sitter's tool for 2002. On May 28, Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. will release a two-disc DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. of ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,'' with additional never-before-scenes, self-guided tours A self-guided tour is where one navigates a route themselves as opposed to an escorted tours where a tour guide person directs the route, times, information, and places toured. Many self-guided tours come with suggestions, maps, instructions, directions, and items to see or do. , interviews and interactive features. The blockbuster film has already made $312,936,385 domestically and nearly twice that in foreign revenues. Warner did not indicate what the new scenes that were completed just for the video would be of, but some of the DVD extras also include: an interactive tour of Hogwarts, the school of magic; a visit to Diagon Alley, where magic items are purchased; a lesson in Quidditch (the flying broom game); and, of course, interviews with producer David Heyman and director Chris Columbus on ``Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,'' the next installment, which comes out Nov. 15. (Start lining up.) DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. features include games, interactive trading cards and an activity center. ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' will also be available on VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. with some of the new scenes. It will list for $26.99 on DVD and $24.99 on VHS. |
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