Back to the original topic, there has been an epidemic of electrolytic capacitor failure in recent years, primarily due to cheaply manufactured caps, that were made using a stolen formula that omitted a key ingredient in the electrolyte.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plaguehttp://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=4I spent a few days recently repairing dozens of Samsung LCD monitors from our lab that all failed in the same way shortly after the warranty expired. Every one of them was a victim of the bulging capacitors in the power supply.
