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Having suffered thru two 622's, whose HMDI ports failed, I have been happy for a long time with my 722k's (DISH has replaced two prior 'k' series due to hard drive failures), since the HDMI port has never been an issue.

I recently set up my cabling with a Cat5e extender, and ran the Cat 5e from a media closet, thru the wall, then behind the baseboard from the wall exit point, over to the telly. Been working fine for several months, but lately when I fire up the system, there is no sound. Have to go in to the media closet, pull the HDMI short cable out and re-insert. Works fine for sometimes three or four days, other days, happens every time. Went online to CyberGuys, ordered an HDMI angle adapter, basically a male end and female end on the same short "plug", which can be angled as needed. Description calls it the "HDMI port saver." Hoping this will be stable enough to hold the 'k' port. Also hoping this is not a defect with the 'k,' although, having been given two 'k's, including the problematic one, I would suspect they are remanufactured.

Wondering if others have had this issue, specifically, not a total failure of the 722k HDMI port, the way the 622's failed, but more like a weak connection at the port which sporadically fails.