I just had to post this promising reply I got from Philips today in an otherwise depressing thread:

"We are investigating the unresponsive screens. Analyses are not finished yet , but I can already tell you that there are several reasons causing this defect, therefore do not use the repair procedure described at remotecentral

We also are working on a acceptable solution for the out of warranty repair for this defect.

Before the end of this week I expect a post on remotecentral how we will handle the out of warranty cases.

Anyway you will get a mail with what you schould do with your device.

Kind regards."

I think we can all be patient for another week (or so). I am.