That price includes a 25- year or 5,000 hour guarantee on all the hardware and the lamps. At the end of the period all the lamps will be replaced.

There is a scenario ... that we have them both here this year. It doesn't just include them. It includes (what happens) with the rest of the team.

We found a couple of undesirable aspects of the hardware.

[And the schedule still includes the scenarios Sloan believes are most important: A couple of back-to-backs, so players get used to playing and traveling on the same day, and a stretch of three games in four days.] Let them experience a day off in there, and see if they can keep themselves ready, ... It's important to see if any of them try to take the third game off.

There's no way you can cram enough hardware into a $500 price point and make it run well for Windows XP, let alone Vista.

Computer hardware and consumer electronics had a stellar season with the price reductions.