Unfortunately as the Pound is so crap and the Yen is so strong the price of anything made in Japan is going up. In fact because the Pound is so crap the price of all imported goods will be going up. Canon have increased the price of their goods by 5% in Europe and 10% in the UK. So you may now be able to afford the disks but you won't be able to afford the drive.
I'll wait till the next lot of disk formats to come along and get the one that Sony have had nothing to do with.