Thanks guys - so by the sound of Lee's post on that thread, early curved-screen Avant 28s have a propensity to blow tubes but early Avant 32s are far less prone to it? Are DVD1s known to be unreliable? I'm quite curious how he'd had the DVD working with everything all connected up, operating...

I was wondering if anyone might have any particularly strong views on this, as I'm considering buying either one secondhand... I know the Avant is the later model and is widescreen and so on, but I'm sure I've read somewhere that the MX series have better picture quality. Which sounds odd...