Hmm she says that you've lost all data once your PS3 gets YLOD, I thought it had nothing to do with the hard drive?

If I was to remove my hard drive...It would no longer work?

Yeah well if you have problems, take action like Microsoft did.... eventually ;)

Personally, I think people are stupid for buying the PS3 slims. It's a new model. Why take the risk?

I had it (ylod), paid £128 and now feel quite confident in my machine. i think i would rather pay the extra £25 for sony to fix it than some third party. A watchdog show about overcharging by £25?

I just saw this show, and it does not seem like it was put together well, it came off like a live televised version of you daily tabloid papers. This was aired for ratings pure and simple. The PS3's that were being fixed were all out of warranty and it has nothing to do with Sony.

After watchin that nonsense Sony could rip the BBC to shreads in court. It's whether the subsequent publicity is worth it for kicking the BBC's arse, probably what the BBC were counting on.

Ok this report lost any credibility after this paragraph:

"Presenter Iain Lee is no stranger to the videogame business, having fronted corporate events for the likes of Capcom and Microsoft. He has also been employed on a freelance basis by Microsoft, according to his work for MSN's Tech and Gadget site."

How can you put forth a good case, that people will believe, if you're getting freaking payed by the competition. Funny time for this to come out, isn't it? MS is getting crushed by the PS3 for 2 weeks, probably for the whole holiday season. And within a few weeks, two independant gaming sites have published polls of thousands of gamers to find that 360's failure rate is above 50%, not all of these failures covered by the 3 yr. warranty. GameInformer - 54%, IGN - 58%. I would think the best way to get peoples' minds off of these facts are to point fingers at the competition and say they have problems, too. And let's not forget that MS didn't extend their warranty out of loyalty or love for their costumers, but to get heat off of them brought on by a string of lawsuits because of RROD.

For those who think this will greatly affect PS3 sales in UK, dream on. I doubt UK is dumb enough to fall for this. Nor do I think they have such a short term memory to forget RROD.

Sony - 1 BBC - 0

BBC win,..anyway,..

Some people have such short memories, watchdog featured RROD a long time ago.

If theres a problem with ps3's 12-18 months in to their lifespans and sony ask you to pay for repairs the moment it bricks out of warranty then why shouldn't watchdog tell people about it?

Are sony above the law? I don't think so.

Same shit happened with ps2's (tonnes of them would stop working not long after it's 1 year warranty had expired....... faulty laser reader ect)

You fools!!!

Kowenick @ http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=86333 has already posted the truth about this being an inherent design fault. A test of 3 consoles proves this and Sony should confess that this is an inherent design fault. It would make us feel better 'bout ourselves. 

If you dont see it, you are a fool!