Electronics are ment to die and to fill up our landfills. We bought a new widescreen HDTV a few years ago and it died on us a few months ago. After only 4 years!! To fix it was more than its worth so we did not. I was willing to give up TV but my husband bought a Wii so we ended buying a flat screen. Its the same with computers and DVD players(our just died to as well!) I say just place blame where it is due and thats with the big company's producing this junk to fill up our landfills. Also take your broken electronics to a recycling plant. Enough said!