My samsung LCD kills anything I've seen, I have friends with plasmas and LCD both parents, grandparents in-lawish so I had alot to look at. So on Plasmas still images DO cause damage its just takes longer (due to the shifting pixels) and they have created ways to repair it, kind of but it still seriously reduces liftime of the tubes or panel (cant remember which) the damages comes from both, the fix as well. Basicly they burn the entire screen with nothing on the screen to erase the ghost similar to the "gray DVD they sold to fix Plasma burns. LCDs problem was response time and blurring and the 120 hz sets have about ended that issue completly I had an old old LCD and yes for gaming it sucked almost ruled out LCD completly because of my old one. Yes I researched alot before buying mine and was glad I did because otherwise I wouldnt have this set. Another thing that hurt plasmas is I am using my 46 inch as a computer monitor as well. what I'm typing on right now. LCD defiantly have the edge in this area oh and I think they are going to start phasing out Plasmas in the near future as well dont quote me on that though.

I noticed the warranty says original owner. The system may have been registered by the first owner when he/she purchased it. If not, you need to register it and give it a shot. They will register it for you when you call if you haven't already. Good Luck to you.BiggDoggz66

Yeah I wish, no I was in the system with the console I currently have. I have a feeling the last time I sent it in the rep didnt know that they had extended the warranty from 6 months to a year. And just sent a box out without marking it as a warranty fix and messed my file up... You know no matter how I think about it it just doesnt make any sense. BTW BBB in my area doesnt handle it and fowarded my compliant to Alaska Washington area the ah,bureaucracy begins:).