Here the Long and Skinny of it People. If you havent been trained to Fix TV's you really dont know what your talking about. In our Experience ABC Warehouse has the best warrantys on the market. The Bulbs alone are $250.00+ per bulb and thats for the bulb not the Housing that maybe involved in replacing it too. On average Service techs are $90.00 per Hour. You do the math. You spend an extra $300-1200 at purchase time and have piece of mind for the Next 4 years. Also a little FYI for all of you looking into purchasing DLP's and LCD's STAY AWAY from Mitsubishi DLP's they have issues right now that the Manufacture is unwilling to correct at the time of construction. Along with they are unwilling to provide information to the servicers on how to fix the problems that thier sets have. They would rather have the servicer pull the chasis out of the TV and send it to them in Georgia and let them take 8 to 12 weeks for them to "Fix It". In our experience Mitsubishi is taking anywhere from 2 to 4 months to Fix the Chasis and no one wants to wait that long for their TV! Also Bulb life for a DLP/LCD TV's is 1 to 2 years and THEY WILL FAIL!