I am looking at sony UK store and the price is £129.00 Incl Vat which rounds up to almost $200.
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/rd-rea...ook/tab/models
$149 seems to be only for US. So no good to me. I guess the $199 was for international model or something as it wasn't on US store.
You really need to live in US to read