I purchased my WD-57831 in March of '07. Received it in April of '07. Periodically throughout the year I'd have the issue where the TV would give the message that it was not receiving enough ventilation and to make sure nothing was blocking the vents. The Tv sits all by itself with nothing blocking it. Now, as of 5/08, the lamp blows. A little over a year. I KNOW my family does not watch enough TV to blow the bulb already. Reading through this forum today, I find out that Mits covers the aforementioned issue. Can this issue cause the lamps to blow prematurely as well? Just curious because when we call Mits about the ventilation error, I'll ask them to replace the lamp as well.
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Hello,
Is anyone interested in getting in on a class action lawsuit against Mitsubishi and their (known?) defective DLP televisions? I've seen numerous posts regarding lamps, ballast boards, DLP engines, total rebuilds, poorly assembled thermistor sensors, air flow problems, useless repairmen, etc. etc.
I too am experiencing the joy of making 3 Diamond Card payments as well as HD cable programming payments all for a television that stopped working back on June 30, 2007 and has had 2, now a pending 3rd, unsucessful attempts by incompetent "authorized repair centers" to fix it. ITS ONLY 6 MONTHS OLD!!! Randomly replacing parts without performing electronic troubleshooting is totally unacceptable.
Anyway, please let me know if anyone would be willing to sign some papers and get this thing going.
Thanks!

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