We've had this giant Pioneer 59" widescreen HD DLP for a few years and in the past few months it's been randomly going out and then won't turn back on for hours afterward. We've contacted Best Buy about it numerous times, but every time they come out to check it out, the tv is working fine, so they can't do anything to remedy the problem. In recent months it's been going out more often than usual. My parents have been logging every time it dies out to show to Best Buy how often it dies. In the last month it has been going out like crazy, so my dad got pissed off and spoke with Best Buy's manager about it. Best Buy agreed to pick up our tv and take it with them to check out there, but on the day they were supposed to pick it up, the guy who came out had no idea they were picking it up. He thought they were just doing an in-home repair. My dad was livid and went to Best Buy that same day to have word with the manager. As a result, the manager said they would replace our messed up tv with a brand new one of equal or lesser value, which was $3,500. So, with my help, we picked out a sweet new tv and it arrived today. We got a Pioneer 50" widescreen plasma, loaded with all the bells and whistles. It has 4 standard inputs (AV/S-video/component), 2 HDMI inputs, USB input so you can hook up a flash drive or camera to the tv and it will load all your pics and display them, CableCard slot for digital cable, PC input, plus other crap I forgot, and can do up to 720p. I hooked it up today when I got home from work and it looks awesome. All I can say is this weekend I am putting my 360 on there. :D
nice, a new tv. Good to know your cat is doing good.
I've never experienced a disc read error with burn out. I gave it to you because I didn't have time to play it as much as I would like (as with most of my other games).
As far as using duct tape for playing imports on PS2, I had to open my PS2 and use something to clamp down on 2 of the sensors. Sony got smart in the newer PS2 slims that they had a plastic barrier placed around one of the sensor so that it will prevent most swap kits from being used. I tried using a small piece of electrical tape, but it didn't hold as long as I would like, so I decided to use duct tape. Its not as bad as you think. At least now, I can play some obscure Hentai games hehehe (j/k about that).