I get a feeling that the UK may get "shafted again" come next year when we'll only get the 20gig system and the 60 gig model will follow later on the back end off the summer

Going through some of the newsgroups it also may look like when you buy the 20gig system you just get the bare bones of the PS3 and will be up to the re-sellers/retailers to bundle games & movies, uping that systems price. But with the 60gig model it may be bundled with a demo disc, game (choice of 3) and a BR movie (choice of 3) before the re-sellers/retailers get it.

As for the regional free thing, I'm a bit concern on that as the whole idea of the regional blocking was to keep content & classification of material in control for different countries. e.g. a film like The Devil's Rejects would be released in the USA, UK, Japan and the main parts of Europe as a Rated & Unrated film. But in places like Austraila, New Zeland, India & Mexico they would only have a Rated version due to there strict control of "portrait violence" and "religious content"