To be frank there is a dearth of very good Blu Ray Players ... The high water mark of the Denon DVD A1 and the Marantz UD9400 has not been achieved by the newer products. Rather the market place peaks out at about $1000 with very few to choose from above that...

So yesterday along with apparently a good portion of the rest of the Australian disc viewing population I dutifully obtained my Blu Ray copy of Avatar. I am not disappointed in this movie ...

I'm peeking out from under my aluminium foil hat here, but there are folks trying to take over my TV...

But not for the likes of us antipodeans just yet ... this is the Blu Ray Player that matches the AVPA1 Pre and Power and is the multiformat device that will properly supercede the DVDA1 DVD Player.

So while the marketplace struggles to get to grips with 50 Giga Byte Blu Ray discs a couple of bright chaps from our local Swinburne University are receiving substantial international accolades for their Optical disc technology that offers up to 7.2 Terabytes of storage.