Sony has always been an enigma to me. They release devices that appear midrange or yesteryear, and I get excited because I generally test devices in that range. Then I see the price and wonder how they're even in the business anymore.

A friend once put it really well: "Sony is a company with brilliant engineers and amazing consumer feature ideas. Then all the good ones get crippled by their lawyers and the media industry sycophants."

I think Sony is still a powerful brand for old people?

They lost me with the music CD root kits... IT's nearly impossible to avoid stuff that uses sony components, but haven't bought anything labelled sony since.