I just cloned myself and it's not perfect but I did it. Anyone mess with it or very good at it? I'm demo-ing it right now. Don't think I wanna pay 500 bucks for it though.
Come to think of it, my car stereo is a Sony and the stereo in my bedroom is a Sony too and I like them both. Remind me again why you hate Sony so much.
Oh and my video camera is a Sony. I probably would have liked a Canon better, but the Sony was cheaper.
If any of those sony products carries the "made in" badge in Malasian or China - then you can safely bet that they will fail you well before their proposed expiration date. The only exception being, of course, (and this is recent - the last few years, that is) items made in China. As we're well aware of, we can't go half an hour without coming into contact with something made in China, and honestly - as far as I'm concerned, half the country belongs to China already. So - with regards to electronics, a decade and two ago, Sony pissed me off by selling 'name brand' items under their logo, but with a high failure rate. Granted - there were some things that didn't fuck up on me, but the majority of things Sony during that era DID. Including my $300 fucking PlayStation. Including my first all-in-one, $600 single-disc CD component system. Several Discmans. And, every damned Sony wire I've ever used (be it the AC/DC power cable plug that goes into the unit, a headphone plug, whatever) - Sony doesn't seem to know how to make a right turn in an electrical conduit *read - TWO FUCKING WIRES* insulated with plastic last more than a year or so. So, yeah... Fuck Sony.
Not all things from China are bad. Consider formulas and ideas. Gunpowder came from China. Maybe China ain't so bad after all.
Hehehe... Now we've got something for the swine, too! It jus' don' get no betta dan' dis! **Seriously, though. Look at the population. Any time a population exceeds the carrying capacity of it's environment, Mother Nature steps in and controls the burden of consumption by systematically killing off the weakest members in any society. Is it any fucking surprise? Really?