VIDEO . . . WHAT’S NEW : ‘Roger Rabbit’ to Hop Your Way in the Fall

Fall may not be the best season for bunnies, but that’s when Roger Rabbit will come hopping down the video trail.

The related Buena Vista, Walt Disney and Touchstone home-video companies are expected to announce an exact ’89 release date and low price ($20-$30) for last year’s animation/live-action mega-hit “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” during a big media gathering June 7-10 at Walt Disney World in Florida. Details of other Christmas-season videocassette promotions will be outlined then as well--including possible reduced-price re-releases of “Robin Hood” and “Bedknobs and Broomsticks.”

That rumor reported here two weeks ago about $14.95 becoming the standard reduced price for videos by this fall is looking more solid with the announcement by Paramount Home Video this week of its “Sweet 15” promotion: On Aug. 2, the company will offer 15 titles for $14.95 each, including all four “Star Trek” movies, “Beverly Hills Cop,” “Flashdance,” “Shane,” “Witness,” “Airplane!” and “Trading Places.” Paramount has been a trend-setter in low-pricing videos before, offering “Raiders of the Lost Ark” for $39.95 back in 1983, marking 25 top titles for $25 in 1984, and marketing the initial release of “Top Gun” at $26.95 in 1987.

Like to add a videodisc player to your home-tech equipment but you’ve been scared off by the high prices? Pioneer Electronics may have the answer: It’s just announced the cheapest combination laser-CD machine yet. The CLD-1070 retails for $600, which means it should sell for perhaps $100 less when it reaches stores in the next few weeks.

MOVIES

Late last year, Shirley MacLaine returned to the screen after a five-year absence in John Schlesinger’s “Madame Sousatzka” (MCA, $89.95, PG-13). In her first role since her Oscar-winning performance in “Terms of Endearment,” MacLaine, as The Times’ Kevin Thomas wrote in his review, “triumphs as a formidable London piano teacher, alternately endearing and outrageous, who becomes overly attached to her latest pupil.” This cassette arrives just seven weeks after the release of the actress’ first-ever non-theatrical video, “Shirley MacLaine’s Inner Workout,” a stress-reduction tape that has already sold more than 100,000 copies. (More on “Inner Workout” in Sunday’s Calendar.)

There’s not much else in the new-releases bin: Ken Russell’s “Lair of the White Worm” (Vestron, $89.98, R), his typically outlandish version of a Bram Stoker (“Dracula”) novel about pagan mysticism; “The Iron Triangle” (IVE, $89.95, R), a Beau Bridges-starring Vietnam film that earned credit in some quarters for incorporating the Viet Cong point of view (“sincere but tedious,” Thomas wrote); and Chuck Vincent’s goofy “Young Nurses in Love” (Vestron, $79.98, R).

OTHER VIDEOS

Baseball fans are missing Oakland A’s star hitter Jose Canseco on the field--the young outfielder is out until about June with a wrist injury--but they can catch him in “Jose Canseco’s Baseball Camp” (IVE, $19.95), a 60-minute instructional tape for youngsters.

Five stars from daytime dramas try to get their fans off their duffs in “The Soap Star Workout” (Vestron, $19.98), which features Jacklyn Zeman and Kin Shriner from “General Hospital,” Charles Shaughnessy from “Days of Our Lives,” and Holly Gagnier and John Martin of “One Life to Live.”

Anything goes in the mock-instructional “Dirty Tennis” (MCA, $19.95), where Dick Van Patten, Bruce Jenner and Nicolette Sheridan try to do for that game what Tim Conway did for another in the super-popular “Dorf on Golf.”