Finally today my new siny 80GB PS3 turned up and I am pleased to say that so far all seems to be well, I hope it continues the same way from now on otherwise I am gonna be seriously pissed. Also to confirm for the UK market at least the 80GB PS3 is not backwards compatible at all, you insert a PS2 disk and you get a ? where the CD icon appears then a message saying something along the lines of "This PS3 can not play PS2 or PS1 media". A shame but no real loss either as I don't play PS2 games all that much and if I really want to play PS2 stuff then I can get the PS2 Slimline console for around £20.