My 60GB was out of comission for about 2 months with the YLOD untill a week ago
I resurected it by reflowing the motherboard myself, and used arctic silver 5 on the cpu/gpu heat sink plates. saved myself 150 plus tax.
I hope it lasts untill i get really bored of it lol, for now, im playing the s**t out of it and now that i bought a hard drive i backed it up so i dont have to worry.
Plus i never had a single issue with HDMI, it has worked smoothly. Then again almost every television i have ever owned was a sony.
ps2 BC is awesome, one less system to take space, plus the ps2 games look way better on the ps3. if you play them with the upconversion, and have smooth mapping ON