Imagine my deep joy to get a fourth Ps3 and finding it doing the same old nonsense. Looking it up it seem as if it’s our good old friend the HDMI handshake at fault. The one I just got has composite cables so I plugged it in and all games work. I’ve got upon a solution which works for most games. As the game loads up I switch to another channel. The television detects the HDMI device and flips to it’s channel allowing the game to play. The one exception so far being Little Big Planet. On HDMI it just reboots the system. So changing channels isn’t an option. Shame as I love the game. This was probably the case for the other consoles. Why my neighbours console isn’t effected is another thing. HDMI sucks monkey balls.