Slim pickings this week in the new HD DVD releases. All of those re-issued non-combo discs must have kept Warner so busy, they only scheduled one release.

Universal’s sole release is Evan Almighty, a sequel to Bruce Almighty, and it brings the debut of new features at the UniversalHiDef.com site, where viewers can take their HD DVD player online to look into making movie-related purchases of green-friendly items. Perhaps they were too busy at Universal working on these HDi features to put out at least a second or third disc.

All eyes in the HD DVD world are set on next week’s release slate which includes the long-awaited Transformers, a title that has topped the HD DVD best-sellers list on Amazon almost consistently for over a month.

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Evan Almighty (2007) Steve Carell, Lauren Graham, Morgan Freeman Directed by Tom Shadyac Rated PG

Twilight Zone (1983) Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Kathleen Quinlan, John Lithgow Directed by John Landis, Joe Dante, George Miller, Steven Spielberg Rated PG

It’s not one of those R-rated horror flicks, but Twilight Zone is still a pretty good October movie, right on time for an HD Halloween party. It would be great to have the original series box set on HD, but this 1983 movie provided a pretty good sampling of the quirkiness that made the show such a classic hit.