A website is claiming that they managed to kill a PS3 via just playing Blu-ray movies only. BUT, the 'killing' comes after they continuously played movies for a WEEK. Before its untimely death, they noticed that after six days there was a degradation of signal quality and claim the console eventually failed due to the internal thermal guage they placed melting itself to the console board. These guys need to find another hobby.

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After Six days of continuous movies we witnessed the slow degradation of quality of signal for the last 6 hours of movies and then the system crashed. Was it really possibly after the torture of the last tests on “How to kill a ps3 console” that we had succeeded, keeping in mind that this was the same console. The console was completely dead. After further investigation we discovered the reason the console had failed was due to the “internal thermal guage” we had placed thru the tray, the solenoid had melted itself to the console board and caused the killing of a PS3 console.

We should deem from this test that under normal operating conditions with no external items inserted into places where they shouldnt be the PS3 consoles lives on thru anything that has been thrown at it.