The Replay has both composite and svideo (and VGA output)

the closest thing to thumbs up in replay is theme based recordings. You select key words like ‘home’ or ‘Kournikova’ and it will automatically record any thing that has bob villa or Anna (without creating a record conflict).

I am guessing you are asking weather the replay remote can control the Sony TV - It controls the power and volume of my 36" Sony no problem.

Either Replay or Tivo - once you have one, there is no going back to live TV!!!