Playstation 5 HDMI repair

There is a better place, there was actually a Mybb article about them recently
 
Console Service Centre in Boksburg

He said they had identified recurring hardware fault patterns in the PlayStation 5, namely a structural HDMI weakness and an under-reported overheating problem in the upright orientation.

“The PS5 has a structural HDMI weakness that the PS4 didn’t have. Five times more HDMI port damage in our PS5 tickets,” Potgieter stated.
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The small shop in Boksburg that repairs 1,000 PlayStations and Xboxes per year

Console Service Centre in Boksburg logged 1,021 console repair tickets over the past 12 months, with PlayStation 5s accounting for a much larger share of failures than its installed base would suggest.
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ArmatageShanks said:
I'm also curious, its a stationary object, how do people damage them.

Are the console kiddies having LAN parties that we don't know about.
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“Two common causes: people moving the console with the HDMI cable still plugged in, and people standing the PS5 upright in tight spaces.”

Potgieter explained that when the console gets bumped over with the cable in, the leverage rips the port off the motherboard.
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