The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 140

QUICK NOTES Here's a date to mark down on the video calendar: Touchstone Home Video has announced that Good Morning, Vietnam is already video bound. The blockbuster comedy hit, starring Robin Williams, is slated to arrive in stores on Aug. 2. MGMUA Home Video, meanwhile, has picked July 19 for the video debut of a screon classic The Manchurian Candidate HBO Video has just unveiled the latest edition of its Sports Illustrated video magazine. Get The Feeling: Power gives viewers an athlete's eye view of sports.

And Paramount Home Video has teamed up with JVC to introduce the first two major Super-VHS movie titles in Japan. On deck: The Untouchables and Beverly Hills Cop II. TQENnC I lCl IUJ With 1988 now half over, it's time to step back and check out what's in store for video buffs in the months ahead. Close to 100,000 people converged on Chicago at the beginning of June to catch the annual International Summer Consumer Electronics Show. And the treasure trove of video hardware that consumers can expect to see this fall runs the gamut from enhanced technology to quirky novelties.

Like the Panasonic PV-4826 VCR. It's much like any other four-head unit with one exception: It can be programmed by telephone perfect for anyone who forgot to set their VCR to tape Dallas before they left home. Panasonic wins the prize for innovative achievements in video camera-recorders, too. That honor goes to its model PV-460 camcorder. Its chief attraction is called Electronic Image Stabilization a special lens assembly that "floats" and compensates for all those jerky movements that come with hand-held camerawork.

You like 3-D movies? Try Toshiba's SK-3D7: It's the world's first 3-D camcorder. With the help of an electronic adapter, homemade 3-D videos can be played back on conventional VCRs and TVs although a pair of special 3-D glasses are needed to watch them. Quirky items aside, consumers can expect a growing number of Super-VHS VCRs and camcorders this fall. Almost all hardware manufacturers have Super-VHS camcorders up for grabs this year, and a significant number have unveiled tabletop S-VHS video decks. The enhanced video format offers a significantly sharper picture than regular VHS units.

Technicians insist that about 90 per cent of the improved picture benefits are available through standard video jacks located on conventional TV monitorreceivers. Combined with the added benefits of digital special effects, VCRs and camcorders are making a bold jump to a new level of high resolution. And that paves the way for Improved Definition Television, a new-and-im-proved version of today's TV system that manufacturers such as Toshiba and NEC hope to introduce this fall. Using double-scanning non-inter-lace technology, IDTV is sort of a half-way step toward High Definition Television. IDTV uses digital technology to double the number of horizontal scanning lines and come up with a significant enhancement in picture quality.

THE TOP 10 VIDEO REHTRLS 1. 2. Fatal Attraction (Paramount Home Video) Full Metal Jacket (Warner Home Video) Throw Momma From The Train (Orion Home Video) Ironweed Vestron Video) Helb Again (Touchstone Home Video) Like Father, Like Son (RCAColumbia Pictures Home Video) Nuts (Warner Home Video) Overboard (CBSFox Video) The Untouchables (Paramount Home Video) Teen Wolf Too (Paramount Home Video) 7. 8. 9.

10. (Ratings basedmiaMirwy ol 'videnstores across Canada.).