I do not know if you want to spend the money on expensive scissors but I used the heavy Fiskars Scissors and after putting them in the sun all day I sat down one evening on the patio and they cut very easy. I had a old pair from my seamstress days. I do not even know if they make them this heavy anymore.

You would have to connect through one of the TV's inputs depending what you have available. May I suggest you review your Sony owner's manual. Both my Samsung and Dynex include complete instructions for their products. You could also visit the Sony website. Then if there are still questions maybe we can help. DA

Lora, Open Music Match, insert your CD in your CD ROM and choose "rip from CD". Not sure how your Music Match interface is setup, but "rip from CD" is in the left column on mine.A record panel with appear, then choose the songs you want to rip and then press the record button. I just ripped 2 songs from a CD. Jean

For CD's you can actually rip them and store them on a network attached storage device. That'll save you a bunch of space. I ripped over 600 CDs a few years ago and saved them on our NAS device. Then you can stream the music from that storage device. We use Sonos speakers, and stream our music library from there. Another plus of ripping/saving is that I downloaded hundreds of the CDs to my ipod mini for running. We did save the actual CDs and the cover art, but they are in a box in a storage area. Regarding DVDs, we had some drawers built underneath the TV area, and they are in those drawers. I want to rip the DVDs too, but haven't figured out how to do it yet. And I don't know if they will play on our TV from the NAS device, or if there's an external drive I can plug into my TV to play them. It's on my to-do list. Most people don't buy CDs and DVDs anymore because of streaming. But I didn't want to throw them away. I also find it curious how vinyl has gotten so popular lately. My 16 year old and 23 year old are getting so into vinyl records! Like a backlash to streaming.