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I never got the Red Ring, My disc drive just stopped working.

I must say that your lucky Jeff but I am gonna get a new 360 elite because my disc tray has major problems. I'm gonna get the longest warranty because I had 2 consoles break on me and no matter what they say I still think that there is a chance that I could break.

I don't worry about the RRoD anymore but that's mainly because I no longer own a 360. I bought one at launch and it lasted all the way up until about April or so of this year. It was out of warranty but not out of the extended RRoD warranty but I've heard rumblings that the turnover time had gotten pretty bad, so I was able to have a friend at a local gaming store switch it out for a brand new one with HDMI which my original did not have. I kept that for a couple of months but ended up selling it off for non gaming related reasons. I keep thinking about possibly repurchasing a 360 at some point but I'm fine with my PS3 for now and I may just wait for whatever Microsoft decides to roll out next, I think they handled the RRoD problem very poorly but I also believe they have learned thier lesson. I think they should have bit the bullet and recalled all 360's when the problem first cropped up instead of trying to pass it off and play coy for so long. That coupled with so many hardware iterations and the addition of HDMI later in the lifespan has just made this console cycle a failed experiment in my eyes. Sony isn't doing much better in the multi-sku department either though. Hopefully next generation will see us return to one sku per system, standard HDD in every console, up to spec with the standards of video and audio technology, and maybe even a pack in game with each. One can hope right.

I had the red ring only once and got it repaired under warranty. Too bad the console still scratches my discs on a more than acceptable basis. Maybe I just play too much? I don't know. I just hate the fact that I need to constantly keep a watchful eye on how long I am playing the console.

I never got a red ring though my 360 has broke by other means (disc tray). Though it seems that most of these problems have been fixed now, so I don't think many people will need to worry about the RROD anymore.

My console got the precursor to the RR by stuttering and locking up on every game I played, so MS said send it in anyway because it's only a matter of time.  A year later I got a nasty video card glitch that basically was tied to the RR in some way.  That was around the time GTA IV came out (naturally) and it's been fine since.  This recent price drop is making the Elite look awfully tempting, since I know that this unit is on borrowed time.

My graphics card just melted a week ago, and it's in for repairs. I love the system, but the xbox 360's hardware is a peice of shit.

I am still deathly afraid of the red ring. I actually got red ringed once, however, it was only 1 red light, instead of 3. The extended 3-year warranty only applies to 3 red lights. Luckily, the warranty covers anything if you've had it less than a year. So I got lucky there. But then the replacement 360 I've gotten seems like it's not in very great shape. For one, you have to push the eject button surprisingly hard for the disc tray to open. Also, with some games, it freezes kind of often, to the point where if it gets any worse, I think I'm gonna have to have a word with Microsoft.

I was RRoD last week.  I thought I had "made it out of the woods" because it was a launch day system.  If you just ask for a shipping label in lieu of a shipping coffin, that will expedite things.  I mailed mine off on Aug 29th and yesterday (Sep 4) a "new" 360 was shipped out to me.  

Yeah well my 360 from christmas 2006 red ringed 2 weeks ago so yeah its still a problem

Good Read, though hardware failure is not rare. My Xbox One had a bad DVD drive, my 1st Dreamcast can't read games and I even had to send my launch Gamecube back to Nintendo for repairs ($90 in 2003, I remember testing out my games to see if they were the problem at a friends house on the day of the Huge '03 North-Eastern U.S. Blackout)

The ill will towards Microsoft over the RROD is tangible, I don't own any of the current-gen systems and I'm tempted to buy the $199 Arcade and a copy of Bioshock, but I'm still weary over the hardware, that and over priced perheprials like $100 hard drives and wireless adapters and $50 headsets and controllers...

as of august 07 all 360s have been fitted with the new, less overheat chips,  that have drasticly reduced the fail rates of the 360

I've got a console that red rings 1 out of every 20 times it boots up. It never crashes mid-game. I haven't called it in because, honestly, 1 out of 20? I feel lucky.

Though I'm really pissed about not having HDMI and want to call them and bitch about my 3rd RROD console and beg for an HDMI replacement.

I have only got the red ring once. I sent it back and my new one worked good for a while... until it stopped reading discs...

My old 360 read discs fine, but now my new one only reads them about 75% of the time... which isn't bad, but 25% not being read? thats a hassle sometimes, when i just have to keep ejecting my discs from the console, and putting them back in until it works.
kind... of... ANNOYING!