A new product is due soon that should protect your precious HDTV, even if you should manage to demolish every other object in your living room during a fitful round of Wii-ing. Looking at it, it seems nice enough, but given the erratic world of Wii controller airborne trajectories, it doesn't seem to be particularly ricochet-proof.

On your fifth HDTV since buying a Wii? Yeah, we are too -- maybe it's time to get your display a little something designed to protect it against the occasional glancing blow from an errant Wiimote. Sketchy though the Taiwanese company's site may seem (apologies in advance, we're not clear on any US distributors), LCDArm claims its impact-resistant Safety Shield passes through 98% of light, reduces UV, and, of course, is the ideal candidate for protecting your high-def investment from your decidedly low-def motion-sensitive console, whose controller has been occasionally known to fly out of the hands of adoring fans with truly horrific results.

Next up...a Safety Shield 'glove' that protects your five-digited fleshy investment against those decidedly motion-inhibiting coffee table edges...

Big Dan has an artfully done video for us. Not just a crude cell phone picture. Quality stuff I tell you. Dan gives us a directors commentary to go with it. Sort of like a YouTube bonus feature.

"I decided since I recently purchased a townhome, and bought myself a Nintendo Wii, that having a bunch of my friends over for a party was a GREAT idea! It was. The night went off like usual, we drank, we drank a LOT! Played the damn thing all night long too!

1:30 am, February 4th.

The worst greatest idea in the history of my TV. "Let's have a home run contest." I was up first, 6 or 7 out of 10, can't really remember, but it was a helluva showing on my behalf! Steve C. was up next. What you see in this video is the 3rd ball that was sent his way. Steve has the 'White Sweater' on. Right after you here the smack, Steve points at the side of the TV (the speaker) and says 'It hit right here, I swear' - needless to say, I wished that what would have happened. My friends did agree that I took it better than they ever would have managed. I am the drunk foo who can't manage to keep his shirt down

Favorite quote: "Wrist Strap!" Brad R.

3 cases of beer: $60
Nintendo Wii: $270
50" Sony Grand Wega: $2500
Seeing my TV get f'ed on YouTube thanks to a talented friend? Priceless?" -Dan

My favorite part of Dan's story is that all references to his friends are accompanied by their respective last initials. I'm not really sure why he thought that was necessary, but it just seems to class the story up a bit, and I sure do like to class things up.

I like the big screens. Oh sure, you tell yourself size doesn't matter and that's what everyone says, but on some level seeing the big ones get cracked is extra fun. Ryan explains...

"So last Wednesday I was picking up some old school SNES games and hear the clerk make a crack to a friend about having a Wii so I jumped on the chance to pick it up. Well fast forward about 20 hours I have a friend for out of town over visiting and we're playing some Wii Sports. Well apparently the wrist strap in unfashionable in some circles, and well during a relatively mellow round of baseball my 51" HDTV met it's match, the sturdy Wii Remote." -Ryan

Shattered screen goodness. Now I know that it is just the protective layer that has been compromised this time, but isn't that a happy in between that we all can enjoy? I'd like to think so. Not completely harmless, not gut-wrenchingly expensive to repair, this one is just right.

What we have here is some nice TV damage, combined with very bad grammar. Now Ryo's English is much better than my German so I'll leave the grammar alone for a bit while he explains...

"My HDTV (899 Euro ) is broken.Becouse of Wii!!!!!!!!! My nephew was playing Wii Sports Bowlling.He was so excited that he play wiht a lot of power^^ But a littel bit to much i think.Becouse the Wiimote fly to my HDTV... Poor me and poor Tv... I hope my insurance will pay thies.."

I gave this guy a pass on his grammar, but we're not in the business of giving out passes on punctuation. Remember everyone, unlike wives when it comes to exclamation points, one is enough.

It's good to see that in the face of constant warnings and reminders of the danger, that people will continue to throw remotes at their TV. Barry here was using his wife's Wii when he thought it would be a good idea to lob one in from the back.

"My wife Jill finally got her Nintendo Wii New Year's eve morning. Only a few hours later, I was the Wiitard that bowled the remote right into the 48" HD tv. Four of us were playing the Nintendo Sports bowling game, and I started to bowl my 2nd frame from the corner of the room. I clipped a chair mid-swing which sent my unrestrained wiimote flying. The screen protector didn't put up any fight, shatered on contact. And no, the wrist strap isn't to blame, just my own stupid, complacent ass which had already gotten in the habit of just wrapping the strap around my fingers as we passed around the controller. :-) -Barry"

Nice save by the protective screen as you can see, looks like it will be a fairly cheap fix in this case.

TV breakage goodness. This ones special because it was a ninja break. They come in, break TV's and are out before you know what's happened. Naturally the usual suspects no nothing about it...

"My oldest son, G (age 12), is a certified Nintendo fanatic, and he especially loves all things Zelda. I wanted to get G a Wii for Christmas, but right after it was purchased I started to hear the stories of the Wii damage. I was like, "Oh great, what have I gotten myself into?". We had a long talk about the possibilities of causing damage, the necessity of wearing the strap at all times, and he assured me that he had no problems holding on to the Wiimote. I felt good about the Wii when I went to bed on Christmas night.

Apparently my darling 7 year old son, J, woke up before everyone else, powered up the Wii and began playing alone. I still don't know exactly what happened, although I'm pretty sure he wasn't wearing the strap as the strap is not broken."

Good times... This scenario brings back not one, but like 30 memories of me and the kid brother trying to pretend nothing was wrong after we had set something on fire or wrought our special brand destruction on some household item.

We might be straying into supposition here, but I don't think it's that big of a leap. When we take a look at this display screen with the tell-tale cracks in the glass, and when combine that with a story from Tim...

"Me and my brother were having a browse at some TV's in our local Comet store in Edinburgh when we came accross the Wii display case. We were wondering why it wasn't available for playing and the cordens had been removed but on closer inspection we realised why. Even with the health and saftey disclamer, the attendant watching your back and the wrist strap, the display TV wasn't safe!!! Cheers, Tim E"

Cheers indeed Tim. I'm going to say that it's a strong possibility that you're right about some passerby giving the display TV a good whack with a Wii Remote. It would appear that you don't have to own a Wii to behave carelessly with one. Now I suppose it's also plausible that the TV damage could also have been received from some runaway shopping cart or a rouge baseball from over in the sporting goods department, but I think a mishandled Wii remote is our strongest theory to date.

Jeff here has apparently decided to go for shear acreage of TV screen destroyed. 65 inches of TV viewing space is now small number my friends. I let Jeff pout verbally to you for just a second before I add some more comments to belittle him publicly.

"I was playing Wii Bowling in the last frame when the Wii-mote slipped out of my hand and the strap broke at the same time. It hit my 65 in Sony tv and put a serious crack in the screen. Originally we thought it was just the glass on the outside. Then my friend pointed out that in his opinion I toar the screen behind the glass also. Thanks Nintendo. -Jeff"

My favorite part is where he says "Thanks Nintendo" as if they had anything to do with Jeff throwing things at his TV screen. For those of us who've witnessed the throwing of Wii remotes or have seen some of the strap weight tests that have been done, you can see that breaking a strap requires Jeff to take trip to crazytown before it will break. Jeff, even though I'm shaming you for taking a shot at Nintendo, I'm going to say thanks for the pictures of destruction. It's the little things in life like this that brighten my day.

Our new friend Heydn tries to blame his TV breaking problems on his Mom in this email. I'm not sure whether I am going to trust him this one or not, but I'll let you hear his side of the story before I cast any more aspersions.

"My mother (of all people) has fallen in love with the Wii. When I brought the Wii with me over Thanksgiving, she immediately became obsessed with it. Later, while in the midst of final exams at college, I got a short email from her asking if I was planning on bringing it home with me over Christmas break. She had already invited her girl friends over for what she called a "Wii Party." Too funny.

Well... despite the 'allow adequate room around you during game play' warnings, mom whacked an antique Chinese chest while doing a backhand in Tennis, causing the battery compartment to open. Almost like a sleek, white jet fighter, the missile bay having been opened, the batteries flew-out, locked-onto our 32" Sony LCD television. One of the batteries missed, but the second slammed into the bottom left corner.

Initially, all three of us were looking down to see where the batteries had gone off to. I then saw the screen, now with a nice series of multi-colored stripes across the bottom. All I could do was laugh. I mean, I bought the damn thing for her as a gift so if anyone had a right to laugh, it was me. I kept looking my my mom, who didn't know whether to laugh or cry. -Heydn"

Well Heydn, I too am shocked at your Mom's backhanded battery pack attack. Who knew that mixed in with making chocolate chip cookies and reading bedtime stories were the skills of a dedicated TV assassin.

It doesn't matter if you are old or young, some people will always have the basic need in life to throw things that they shouldn't. Jon is going to tell us a little bit about this father/son bonding experience.

"my dad has not played a video game with me (or by himself) since the NES came out and he bought me one for Christmas! He thought the Wii was really interesting, so I convinced him to play Wii Bowling with me. About this time, I knew I shoulda had him put on the wriststrap (for whatever its worth), but I never did. He went for a strike, but stuck out when he let the remote go flying to the tv screen. The Wii battery cover bursted off and fell to the floor, but is otherwise unharmed. The tv, however, has this huge crack going around the upper part of the screen.

Nintendo 1 - Sony Televisions 0 -Jon"

Once again we find that Nintendo and Sony go head to head and Nintendo just shakes it off leaving Sony cracked and bleeding. Well maybe not bleeding, but if TV's bled, there would be blood in this picture. We're talking like Kill Bill crazy blood.