[AiboPet]

I wouldn't.

Electronic equipement mostly fails within a week or two if it's some sort of defect....and would fall WELL within the "take it back to costco". Buy your stuff at Costco if they do have it. You can take something back for a month I guess....even if you simply "don't like it". No matter where you got it though...almost any problem will show up within the standard 90days, 1 year...two years or whatever warranty.

If you are gonna buy a flat set.....stay with LED. do NOT get plasma.....and the thicker sets almost certainly have the flourescent (cold cathode) backlights. Plasma burns in and suffers from decreased brightness(permanent). Older LCD sets will have backlight issues or suffer from "image persistence", especially if you ignore the letterbox or 4:3 bars all the time (not permanent...but a pain to excercise out).

These sets are getting so cheap, that you'll likely not even want to repair one beyond something simple like a few caps. I would consider any warranty really just a waste of money.

CES this year was crazy.....All the majors had these new "4K" sets or "UltraHD". Effectively this resolution is like if you put four 1080 sets together. The funny part? There is ZERO content out there yet for these sets....but they are pushing 'em.

These newer sets are actually becomming quite reliable. One sure sign of this is that the manufacturers are starting to push GIMMICKY stuff like 3D and now UltraHD..... in hopes the public will just HAVE to have it, and replace what they have for really no good reason.