I think Art Sonneborn is looking into purchasing 2 of them from Henry Fu (ebay henryfu). I believe Henry has some exclusive deal with sony that allows him to carry some of sony's discontinued items and still offer a sony warranty. per his web site the new ones are $26k and the low hour ones are $17k
BTW if Terry has one with 450 hours on it, i would bet it is as good as new as long as it was not 450 on a static image, and you will get far better customer service from him then almost anyone else. BTW terry's avsforum handle is "Chuchuf"