Sony produces crap hardware any more. Their glory days are long past. My Sony camera has issues within a year of purchase. Sony's Customer NON-support was worthless in getting it fixed. Outside the gaming world, all of their products are overpriced and their quality has gone WAY downhill. Of course, with the ps3 they have about ended their gaming supremacy. IMO the PS3 is a POS and I hope it crashes and burns.