Well on friday I recieved the new shiny DRX-710UL. 9 discs I've written with this player. 9 discs have random skips when played on a standalone player - and the dvds lock up my pc when played on the sony drive. It also never burns faster than 3.0x. I've tried new firmware, friends computers, firewire, usb and 4 brands of disc including TDK and verbatim. I don't think I'm being unreasonable here. I used to have the drx-500ul and it was flawless

Tomorrow morning it goes back to Sony for my £150 back. Hisssss!