Sure would like to hear the answer about whether red buttons versus black buttons means anything. I have black. Purchased early January.

I left the X-sight in my truck last night and when I went to go to the store for beer today the truck battery was dead

This is getting ridiculous!

Batteries have been in my IR for over a week and are still working fine.

I read your post. I mentioned my use of factory-recommended batteries because (in case you hadn't guessed) they are factory-recommended for a reason: lithium batteries tend to have a higher output, flatter discharge across their lifespan. When they die, they are suddenly dead. It is not likely that reduced output is causing my flickering...which I already told you. Did you read my post?

We all want the product to work, but there is no defending the launch of the X-SiGHT (that is how it is printed in ghost black lettering on the side of my 3X). NONE. Let me give a quick example:

I purchased my 3X just this past December 30. Two days later, I had secured an RMA to exchange it for a "manual focus retrofit." Two weeks later, they shipped me a new, manual-focus 3X, all indications being that I was the first to take delivery of the upgraded 3X.

Are you following so far? In 2-3 weeks, I went from initial order to a new manual-focus 3X unit in hand: no 10-month preorder required for me. Fair? No. Just another example of a string of failures that have collapsed most people's confidence in anything stamped ATN.

For a minute, lets assume you are somehow correct about my depleted Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries, which would typically mean a day or two from now (more than likely a day), the scope should not power on. We'll see, I guess...but I suspect it will.

While the Armasight, nightmaster and Aegis are brighter, they are huge and impractical for most hunters needs.
If your hunting from a stand with extended views , it would make sense to have a bigger IR.
You could leave a car battery in the blind to power then up.
I travel lite and hunt from multiple blinds.
For me, The T20 is the perfect size and weight for hauling around and attaching to the scope.

Why is it that you can't go to a website and pull down a comparison chart on various makes and models FROM ALL MANUFACTUERS?

You can when buying a vacumn or vehicle!

I just got a replacement because mine was pink all the time and showed up on the video. It was most noticeable during daylight and it didn't focus well during the day. The replacement has no pink tone at all and is very sharp to view through along with the video is sharper.

Well, let's see...more than 2 million vacuum cleaners are sold each year in the US alone.

US auto sales were at 15.6 million vehicles in 2013.

IR illuminator sales are how many thousand units per year?

Nobody or no group considered to know what they are doing and is unbiased is doing such a study. It takes $ and time, as you know. Somebody could do a review and it might be read by a few hundred people, but isn't likely to be run by any of the major hunting or tactical rags, especially given that illuminator performance is perceived strikingly differently depending on the platform from which it is being viewed. So you would have to run through all the tests with various NV platforms for each illuminator at each power setting for each wavelength offered. So such a review, while it might be helpful to a limited number of people, would not offer much reward for the person doing all the work. Moreover, given the rate of illuminator offerings and changes, plus the changes to the NV field, such a study would be quickly out of date.

That's why.

However, should the illuminator issue be in another thread. What do illuminators have to do with Firmware update 228?