Faulty hardwares

Found couple of news about faulty hardwares - laptop batteries and digital cameras. 1. HP Mobile Battery Pack Replacement Program This claims that some models of battery packs would suffer short circuit and are advised to replace without paying any shipment or other fees. Basically the problematic models in this issues are those which barcode start with either "GC", "IA", "L0" or "L1". Although my laptop (Compaq Presario 2100 series) is in the list of suffered-model, I don't have to be concerned about it since my battery pack bar-code starts with "SS". However, the second news does annoying me. 2. Digital-camera makers to replace faulty image sensors What it says about the faulty digital cameras is that those problematic models would appear distorted virtically or even blank images owing to CCDs on them. The distort images look like this: (Pictures from Konica Minolta) The suffered models range from Sony, Canon, Konica Minolta, Fuji, Ricoh to Olympus, which is quite a long list. Unfortunately my one - Canon Powershot A70 - is also in the list and, what's more, I noticed that similar sympton has come out days ago. (But rather than virtical distort, mine one appears horizontally). It's good to see the companies would replace or fix them regardless of warranty status. The bad thing is - I haven't seen any announcement on Canon_NZ's website...