really!? so how can I get a hold of one of these laser assemblies? you think it's a diode that's burnt out? It could be that the blue ray portion stopped working cause by little brothers don't have blue ray movies so they couldn't see if it would play blue ray or not. I asked my dad if he looked into the problem and he said all he read was that it was kind of a common problem and that everyone sent it in to sony to get it fixed. Screw that. I'm a surgeon with a soldering iron. If I can get the part I'm doing it myslef.