this company never ceases to amaze me, your attention to detail and support is spectacular. the new version (and it may have been earlier than this one as I have been busy) now correctly reports bluray size even though mounted virtually! Summary for drive K: (AnyDVD 6.1.6.1) NERO IMAGEDRIVE2 2.26 Drive (Hardware) Region: 0 (not set!) Media is a DVD. Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 1 Total size: 11234016 sectors (21941 MBytes) Video Blu-Ray label: 76291568_A020344 Media is AACS protected! Removed AACS copy protection! Blu-Ray disc is region free! wooo hooo!! thanks again...