I had a post almost exactly like yours drafted earlier but I decided at the last minute not to post it.

Yeah. I've had that one cued up at least five times. But I decided to send it anyway because it still really pisses me off. I decided then never to buy any further SonicBlue products, but I've already had to renege because I wanted the tuner. But it's largely the reason that I haven't purchased more lenses, an additional sled or an additional empeg. I'd rather spend ten times as much and make a new lens or sled myself. And if my empeg ever breaks, I'll just have to hope that someone's selling one on eBay or that SonicBlue is no more and I'll pay Hugo or someone to fix it for me (not to assume that Hugo doesn't have better things to do).