imagine quite a lot has been said in Oz about the cricket!  Did the little blue LED get flashing? 

As for AV, that's what first revived my interest iin hifi - the dvd player I bought just didn't hack it for CD replay.  My AV set-up is in the same room as the hifi set-up and only linked in that the main hifi speakers do the AV rear sound when called upon - and also are capable of taking the stereo sound from the Sky+ box, as alternate source of 'radio': FM can't get it all.

well, I'm going to have to google optimod ...