Damn I love this band.

Who else can pull off blending Abba, Pink Floyd, throw in a guest appearance by the world's 2 biggest guitar living heroes, some of Prog's best musicians, and even Chris freakin' Jericho?

I was hoping they'd give us for a more multi-faceted, super rock-out album that built on ToT but went further with it. This delivers and then some. With the exception of 2 mediocre filler tracks this album exceeded all expectations. Album of the year so far by a country mile...

Comment on the Special Edition 5.1 DVD.
I think it only has Dolby Digital on it - that's all I listened to so far - I'll give it a lot of credit though, I've got a several DTS DVD's that would do well to match this sound quality, proof positive that compression is definitely not the end all be all of determining sound quality for rock mixes. It's done pretty well. I'm impressed...
Next time, give us DVD-A or DTS though.