I thought the hardware was improved?
Just asking questions possibly for later...

Unless I misread something, he never stated if it was new or used. That could also explain a lot.

I've never had any Nintendo console break on me or any Sony or Tosiba product break on me and i use my electonics and tv a hell of a lot everything from those companies so far is a least two to ten years old and still works.

Buy a PS3 is the answer to your problems. Sell your broken X360 on Craig's List.

E74 error is caused by the solder joins between the GPU and Upscaler chip. They have melted and are not connecting properly. Seriusly with a hot air gun this is fixable in about 1 minute. You just have to leave it to cool for an hour. However if you do this it is reccomended with a console as old as yours to get cooling kit that goes inside your 360. The new Jasper models(jasper is the new GPU) will not have this happen. With both Falcon and Jasper the temperture will be right down and this sort of thing wont happen.

Thanks for advice. Maybe it would be better received in the SONY forum.

3 year warrenty now not 2. outside of that i did have that issue for a bit but it went away when i went from vertical to horizontal. about a year ago, no problems since, though i am going to get an hdmi 360 when the price drops again

He can afford thousands and thousands of dollars worth of consoles in one generation, and judging by his avatar plays them on an enormous screen.  There is nothing unlucky about it lol.

I'm very intrigued as to why anyone would need 2 PS3's and 5 XBox360's.

EDIT:  Wow, I just checked your photos.  Do you have every XBox360 game?  And have you actually played and beaten all of them?  That's just insane to me.

When your PC broke after to years than you bought a very cheap PC. Microsoft choose to produce the xbox as cheap as possible, without quality checking and with cheap hardware, thats why the xbox break. But perhaps a marketing move from MS: In two years there are almost all 360 broken and MS thinks the people will buy the next xbox.