Interesting read on the history of the 360 "Red Rings of Death"...

[heybtbm]

From the article...

"The video game industry has never seen a consumer problem as bad as the 'red rings of death' and the size of the $1.15 billion charge stands as one of the biggest liability glitches in consumer electronics history"




http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/05/xbox-360-defects-an-inside-history-of-microsofts-video-game-console-woes/

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26580495&tag=;title;1

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Interestingly,

I've had 3 XBOX 360s that have OTHER types of hardware failures than RRODs forcing me to replace them ...

... however my LAUNCH DAY REGULAR XBOX had a red ring of death (if you were unaware, they existed on the original XBOXes as well!).

[gepeto]

Excellent one of the most in depth articles on the rrod I have ever read.