Based on the excitement of Panny plasmas here, we bought my mother and father in-law one for Christmas about 3 years ago. It had a very nice picture but they just called us and told us they have green and red horizontal lines across the screen. I don't suppose there is an easy fix for this. So my first experience with Pansonic plasmas is not very good. I suppose with the lack of quality control over products nowadays, one should just expect a certain percentage of consumer electronics to die within a few years.