Heh, SonyMony still has it on their outer window display. Its sitting there.
Unless you got on phone with one of their technical person then you are not gona get proper response.
ANyway. Yep I know about sony pricing. I saw them for 13.5K about a month ago and thats why i was personally surprised when the guy told me the prices of this sony dvd recorder. Its highly unlikely that this person is misinformed bcoz his business is to build personalised music, AV and recording systems and he is the one who quotes 13.5K about a month ago and 45K for those HDD based one.