I work in a repair centre that does all the big brands under warranty - Panasonic, Samsung, LG etc... although we see some jobs come in within 30 days of purchase, 95% of our work is out of this time, and 35% of that is in the extended warranty stage, which we do repairs >$500 very often.

This article mentioned that upscaling DVD's is almost as good as blu-ray - yet, it spent a whole point pointing out that upscaling a SD signal can be worse quality then expected - the save applies for DVD, you simply can't fill out pixels that don't exist on the source signal...

This article was defiently written by a bunch of "know all's" visiting retailers to get opinions for a school project - don't listen to this article, half of it is full of crap.

BTW - A projection lamp is a consumable product (like a normal light globe), so most warranties or extended warranty's won't cover them after 30 days anyway... It's like trying to get insurance because a light globe in your living room blew..