Blu-ray Players Added to UK Inflation Shopping Basket

The UK Office for National Statistics announced today the yearly changes to the shopping basket used to measure inflation in the country, so that price indices are representative of consumer spending patterns. Among the items added (along with small bottles of mineral water and allergy tablets) are Blu-ray players. The ONS said BD players have been introduced to "capture price changes in this new expanding technology."

Blu-ray movies were already part of the ONS basket of goods and services.