well i only can play it seriously on weekends so the 5-8 hrs per week normally ends up being in one or two days straight then nothing till next weekend.

Sepisfu,

I have a lauch 60 GB, have played an average of 10 hours per week since then (some week 0-5 hours, but other week at 15-20 hours), im not counting the hours that the console was on for movies or music (this would prolly be around 20 hours per week total), and still no problems. Manual recommend 6 Inches of air flow around the PS3, this is a lot compare to most electric equipment, I think that if you respect that you should have no problem with YLOD or I am very lucky. You can still have problem with your HDMI port tho. Sorry for you guys with broken PS3.

have you tried actually resetting the PS3s regular functions? there is a huge chance thsi happened over a small software fault changing your video settings.. hold your PS3 power button down till you hear 3 beeps and you will get into recovery menu, if you get into that recorvery menu put it in manufactorer settings

ah yea.. did you confirm your assumption by connecting it to different HDMI ports/ different TV sets / with a different HDMI cable ?

if not, then why are you so sure it's 1.) the PS3 , 2.) the HDMI port and 3.) that it's broken ?

If it's really gone you could try out a component cable (PS2 ones work and are very cheap), as these should produce a similar picture quality especially on smaller TVs.

The cost of repairing an out of warranty PS3 is not worth it - no guarantees it would last long. Buy a new PS3 Slim and an extra unit will go towards the PS3 sales total.

join the club. mw2 made my 40gig ps3 ylod last week,... good news is i got a slim. :)

How the heck does a port crash? does it have a micro chip or something? I thought it was just wires connected to the graphics card and that is were all the computing (and thus friable part) took place.

I must be wrong....

Did you try an other HDMI product on your TV? (say a computer) cause it could be the chip on you TV that fried ^^

@ Hephaestos )

I think it's probably the HDCP handshake, that for some reasons doesn't work now. The PS3 handshakes every time, while the 360 or a PC only handshakes for specific uses, so these devices could still work without problems even if the TVs HDCP decoder has a problem.

That is strange I have my ps3 for longer than that :P

Was it plugged into a real TV or a monitor?