Customers will come out in droves to adopt the high-def formats when there are a ton of neat movies to watch on them.

The releases for this week help towards increasing the total count of available movies, but the low number sends a mixed message from the big studios about how much they’re really into all of this. The release slate is short this week, even for the other guys though they’re supposedly better supported. It was like this many times last year as well.

We’ll never know what goes on in those studio boardrooms and how they decide to put certain movies out before others. Oh well. (By the way, some HD DVD supporters are trying to see if they can get Warner’s attention through an online petition. I’m not necessarily convinced that the goal will be accomplished, but don’t let my jaded ways obstruct your enthusiasm - visit the petition here.)

On tap for this week are two music related discs, one is a concert by Wu-Tang Clan’s emcee, Method Man, and the other is a 3D audio experience disc — the latest in that series which has also included jazz and classical music. The third HD DVD disc is a good old movie. All of these titles are, just as with last week, from smaller studios that support the HD DVD format, but don’t count in the bigger picture when people make lists of major studio support. In fact, it’s going to be more of these smaller players filling up the release slate for at least the next few weeks.

Since I’m mentioning movies, don’t forget that Amazon’s got a little sale on about two dozen catalog titles, like A Scanner Darkly, at around $16 each.

Mysterious Aqua - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality Composed and produced by Alexander Jero (disc will be released later in the week) Unrated

Method Man: Live from the Sunset Strip (2007) Directed by Devinn DeHaven Unrated

Channels (2008) Ed Asner, Kimberly Oja, Nat Christian, Taylor Negron, Joan Van Ark Directed by Nat Christian Rated R