why buy a heavy cable if it worries you? the only thing you can really do is put something underneath the cable to support it and hope for the best. or you can buy just a cheap cable...i bought mine from amazon for like $5..their amazon brand hdmi...and it's thin and light. no issues with the quality but i'm not really picky about it.

lalalei

Yeah, that's exactly the one I just purchased. The AmazonBasics (w/ ethernet) HDMI cable. Perhaps yours isn't BRAIDED or something. I got a braided one, and it is quite thick.

Super Street Fighter IV

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds

Soulcalibur IV (this one's on the fence ...)

Since I got Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, I opted not to get Mortal Kombat (2011). Yes, it may not be as good, but I decided only to get MK (2011) if it was as critically acclaimed as SFIV ... it was not. Tekken6 is more or less a disappointing installment.

Tekken x Street Fighter upcoming.

Well, actually, I just want to know if other people bother to do anything and if they have ever experienced any such damage due to this. I am not really looking for solutions as long as it has not caused problems for anyone else.

(besides, I folded a small piece of paper like four times and put it under the head of the cable (where it plugs into the PS3), and the weight still shifts it downward)

There is not much that can be done (effectively, anyway) short of swapping out the HDMI cable. I only put this one in in order to test and make sure that it works. Technically, it seems to work fine, so it's no like I can return it and say it's "defective." However, since my original, lighter, thinner one was working fine, I may just swap it back.

Is there a CORRECT way to store game cases? I guess the only three choices are vertically, horizontally (rightside-up), or horizontally (upside-down)?

I'm always afraid that if I store games horizontally, with the front cover facing up, that gravity will cause the first few pages of the instruction manual to "fall" on the game disc, rub againstit,and possibly damage (read: scratch) it? With blu-ray discs, I guess it would be almost impossible for it to get scratched that way, however.

Is there any difference in terms of preserving the data on the discs? I've heard that it's best to keep discs vertical, but I'm not sure if that still applies anymore. Also, what about the TYPE of disc that it is? Blu-ray (PS3) or DVD (pretty much everything else currently)?

Well, wouldn't the head of the cable still tilt just the same? The only "positioning" I can think in which this wouldn't be an issue is if the cable were to be plugged UP or DOWN into the port, because then gravity would either be simply pushing the head into the port or pulling it in the opposite direction (which wouldn't really do anything). But it's impossible to position the PS3 in such a way.

I recently purchased a new HDMI cable and in order to make sure that it works fine, I swapped my current HDMI cable for the new one, connecting the PS3 to the TV. The problem is, like MOST HDMI cables it would seem, this new one is quite thick and "heavy," unlike the one I was using, and the head (where it connects to the HDMI port on the PS3) actually gets pulled "down" by gravity, so it is TILTING downwards.

I'm afraid that this might damage the PS3's port? For now, it seems the audio/video work fine, but I'm concerned about possible long-term effects? The thing is, however, it seems that most HDMI cables (especially the pricier, fancier ones) are quite heavier and thicker than say, for instance, composite cables (which are like spaghetti by comparison).

So even if I were to purchase ANOTHER cable, it would most likely be another THICK one. So I guess most people have probably dealt with this issue with HDMI ports? How do you keep gravity from pulling on the head of the cable and tilting it? This one that I'm using now is thicker than mostcoaxial cables. I'm concerned about what it might do to the PS3's port. The TV has four HDMI ports, but the PS3 just has the one ...

Has anyone ever experienced damage done to the PS3 in this manner? It seems like it should be okay, considering MOST HDMI cables I've seen ARE pretty thick, and yet I've never really heard of HDMI ports being damaged due to this.

Well actually, now I'm confused. I was reading up on Heavy Rain a bit more, and it seems like the MOVE EDITION was a version that was only released in the UK?

Some people are saying that in the USA, there was only the downloadable PATCH that was released, and there was never a Move EDITION released? I mean, I understand that imported PS3 games will also work on a PS3 in the US, but the problem is it doesn't even seem like American retailers (like Amazon.com)are even selling the Move Edition.

Is that why Amazon only has the original version listed? It doesn't even sell the Move Edition, which supposedly has the DLC content as well.

I'm hoping that if I refuse to download the patch, it will also leave out the copyright on the game saves. It's a longshot.

I just purchased a brand new copy of Heavy Rain from Amazon, but when I got it today, I noticed that it is the ORIGINAL version of the game, not the Move edition. In other words, the cover doesn't have that blue "PlayStation Move" thing in the upper-right corner.

Well, I'm wondering whether I should return this and pick up the Move edition instead. Or if it is actually BETTER to keep the original version of the game? For one thing, I know that the Move support is a free, downloadable patch, so if you PATCH the original version, isn't that the same as having the Move edition ... except for the fact that you can opt NOT to patch the game if you have the original?

Also, I've searched the issue of Heavy Rain's saves being locked/copyrighted online, and it seems like people have said that the game didn't originally have locked saves (that cannot be transferred), but that the Move edition introduced this? Can anyone who owns or has played the original version of the game confirm this? Because if that is true, then maybe I actually LUCKED out, getting an older copy of the game, which doesn't have the Move patch pre-installed (along with copyrighted save files)?

If it matters, I don't even have a PS Move and probably won't be getting one anytime soon ...

I just think that if you can patch the original version to be the same as the Move edition (or opt NOT to), then maybe the original version is actually better?

Well, most of my games don't go that large. The only exception I can think of is BioShock. The save gets progressively larger as you play through the game, but that's because it "remembers" every little damn thing that you do in the game.

Because of all the glitches. I don't think I've ever played an Activision game that didn't freeze up on me at some point during gameplay.