Sorry it's a bit OT, but, I'd be interested to hear member's views on the subject of Blu-ray Audio discs. There are a few at the moment - and it looks like an interesting development.

As someone who lives at the end of a farm track in rural Wales, the chance of any broadband connection fast enough to allow me to download movies and/or hi-res audio is pretty slim. So I'm a disc man, and blu-ray through a cheap Sony player and an M system is rather good.

Two Tom Petty discs, 'Mojo' and 'Damn the Torpedoes' are available in the USA (not in the UK of course), as is the four hour 'Runnin Down A Dream' documentary (video as well). Does anyone know if these discs are region-locked? They are on the Reprise label (part of Warner Bros.) so in the normal movie world these would be region free.

Hopefully this is an area that could grow. More and more concert discs are becoming available, but it seems that in the pop world only Mr Petty has been brave enough to put out Blu-ray Audio discs.

Should there be more?

Roy Woods
Sony BDP-S370, G98DH, G68D, (FS: 562V), DSP5000C, DSP5000, M60, Pioneer PDP507