well., when i bought the sony blu-ray player, i was sort of worried, because i had a sony dv-rw go bad on me,,,it was fairly new too.....but they had em at the price where i could not refuse, $79, and this was 8 months ago....i have many sony products, lcd tv, blu-ray player, dvd-player, and the other player that plays the tapes,,god, i have not used it for some long i cannot remember what its callled.....you would not like it in my place...