My family always has the worst LUCK! when we bought this computer, like 1 months later pentium 4 came out, when we bought our 43" samsung about 3 years ago with all the new technology, DLP, DNIe all that stuff, the lamp life was like 8,000 Hours, and it cost us about $5k canadian with tax and everything, now its half the price, WAY more life, and better technology.