Should I go ahead and buy DVD recorder or wait for Blu-ray? Bob Bishop
Buy now. When "next generation" Blu-ray players arrive in the UK, they will be more expensive than DVD players, and recorders will be even more expensive. Also, there will be very few pre-recorded discs available. By contrast, today's DVD players and recorders are extremely cheap, and there is an abundance of cheap discs to play on them. It therefore makes sense to wait until Blu-ray hardware has been launched and debugged, and the prices of both recorders and blank media have fallen to reasonable levels.
In this case, there may also be a formats war which makes waiting even more advisable. However, you may already be able to pick up a Blu-ray recorder. For example, Babyimpressions has offered the Sony model (five available) on eBay.com for only $3,875, plus $262 for shipping from Japan to the US. See http://cgi.ebay.com, while it lasts...
