New album release.

I have long observed that Blu Ray music offerings have been limited to live "concert" recordings which I find are usually inferior to studio based releases in both audio and performance quality. The only consolation was added audience noise. Petty's release appears to be a change from the status quo in that this is an audio only studio based multi-channel album. It will be interesting to find how many other artists follow this trend. I would be happy to embrace the format for audio purposes if there was a reasonable quorum of artists who released their content this way.

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