Have recently bought a top-end (ish) Sony HD/DVD/recorder and it is absolutely crap
The record/view/DVD parts of the machine have no integration it’s like they were designed by three geeky engineering types on crack who never spoke to one another.
The machine takes 2/3 minutes to boot up and if you press any buttons on the remote during this time, they are all cached so by the time it does wake up it executes a string of frustrated keypresses one of which is inevitably the on/off button at which point it promptly goes into its ‘power down’ routine which takes several more minutes arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhh
Absolute bag o’shite.