I do sympathise - its absolute sod there are all these formats. I bought a £25 all format player from currys and it won't have anything to do with quite a lot of my recorded discs. I saw a £45 one in sainsbury's yesterday - which made a big deal on the box that it does all formats, so I think someone must be bitching about it as well as us.

whether it will be any better than its cheapo cousin, who can say.

I record on -DVD system nowadays (that's my expensive machine and it does VHS to disc perfectly), which unfortunately won't play any of the discs I recorded when I had one of the first plus systems.