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Later in the day, I got a call from Sony. They'd examined our unit and they figured out the problem. A piece of metal in the system's HDMI port was supposed to have been flush with the bottom of the port but instead had been bent upward, obstructing some of the pins in the port. It had been hard to see, though I imagine we would have noticed if we'd examined the unit more closely and not given it back. Nevertheless, we were told that that PS4 had been fixed. The Sony employee testing our unit used a pin to push the small piece of metal back down. They then plugged an HDMI wire into the unit and it worked. They even brought the unit to our office so we could see for ourselves.
The obstructing piece of metal in the formerly-broken PS4 had actually knocked some of the "teeth" out of the HDMI wire—the one bundled with that PS4—that we'd originally plugged into the unit, the Sony folks told us. We checked two other HDMI wires that we'd used during our brief bit of troubleshooting, and sure enough, they were missing the same teeth, too.
The good news here is that the problem was small and easily fixed. The slightly bad news is that we're unable to tell you why this happened. It's certainly possible that we accidentally knocked that piece of metal upward when we first plugged Sony's HDMI wire into the PS4. We can't rule out human error on our end. But we've been plugging wires into HDMI sockets for a long time, and we've never had this issue before. It's also possible there was something wrong with Sony's wire and that that's where the initial fault lies. Or perhaps the jack was indeed badly made. Sony doesn't know. We don't know.
All we can say is that, if you get a PS4, check the HDMI port carefully. Check the HDMI wire that comes with the system carefully as well. Make sure everything looks flush. And with that, hopefully you'll avoid this problem and we'll never hear about it again.
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Al final era una tontería: un trozito de una pieza de metal del puerto HDMI estaba algo levantado en lugar de estar aplanado,
y al poner el cable HDMI dobló algún pin del cable; con otros cables HDMI que probaron, pasó lo mismo.
En lugar de mirar el puerto HDMI, siendo profesionales que se supone examinan todo para dar la mejor información a sus lectores, a llorar
por internet que da más "hits" a la web
.
Sony examina la consola, ve lo del puerto HDMI, aplana la pieza con un alfiler/clip,
y a tirar millas
.
Recomiendan que se mire el puerto HDMI antes de conectar el cable,
por si acaso a alguien les pudiera pasar como a ellos.
Menudos técnicos en videojuegos
y consolas trabajan en el sector de la prensa videojueguil; en foros donde la gente estamos habituados a pelearnos con todo "made in China" ya estamos habituados a poner en posición puertos micro-USB, HDMI
y lo que se presente
.
Pues eso, que la PS4 estaba bien; una pieza metálica un poco levantada "China quality" en el conector HDMI.