After auditioning quite a few, bought an LX71 last Christmas, and really pleased with the picture quality. I think it'll be a long, long time before the broadband infrastructure in the UK will support downloads at Blu-ray quality, so the format will likely be around for a while.
The only obstacle, now that player prices have come down, is the price and quality of the disks. The prices charged in high street stores are totally unrealistic, and are often £20 or £25. That's a lot of money to spend unless you're sure of the movie, so most of my purchases have been films I already know I love.
And the quality of the disc (and whole experience) can be very poor. Quite apart from dodgy or lazy transfers, the packaging usually consists of the disc and nothing else, and a few recent disks have made you sit through a load of trailers that you can't skip. That is not the best way for studios to address piracy or hasten uptake of the format. It just alienates customers in a way that the music and movie industries seem incapable of not doing!