I love that you often review these sort of “miscellaneous” pieces of gear. Keep up the good work.

As an old ex electronics engineer a cable causing ''delay'' is simply a function of its length, at the ''almost'' speed of light, so addimg 10m to a 1m cable you will not detect.. Now adding into that equation a wobbly connection, that itself does NOT cause lag it causes DROPOUT in the datastream which the receiving device either has to rebuild from error correction code/parity data which can cause a delay (ok thats by some will be termed lag) OR it will request the data is re-transmitted, this causes retransmission delay. none of the above is really lag. cheap cables do not cause lag, they do not cause poor colour, they do not cause anything they either work or they dont as is the case with all digital signals. analog signal cables are a different beast and quality of manufacture (not resale price) makes a difference with those

None of the cables (except really expensive premium ones, but instead of them you can buy 10 cheap ones ) have working warranty. Terms of warranty assumes you are consumer who plug it few times, any mechanical issues will cancel all warranty. Some big shops with lot of free money, mostly in US, ala Amazon can still replace it. But it is up to them. Not using clamp is not good suggestion as female part is soldered to camera motherboard and replacement will cost a ton. It is now lof of small and affordable clamps that also work without full cage itself.

I hope your socket survived the tests!

I used the Sanho HyperThin and love it. It's great for gimbal to side monitor setups because it's so light and flexible it doesn't cause the gimbal to move. 3 years and running with no issues.

FWIW StarTech is a noteworthy company. They're huge in the PC hardware space (mostly among the IT crowd) and have properly certified cables.

I can see that this was a quick video and didn't warrant spending lots of time. Still, I can't resist a comment. (Love your channel.) The title "My HDMI Cable has Lag" caught my attention. You said that the cable caused "lag" when connected incorrectly. Then you showed us that it somehow interfered with the operation of some of the camera controls. First, that's not the definition of "lag" I was expecting. Second, what do you mean by "connected incorrectly"? I guess, after watching the remainder of the video you are indicating that the cable is worn enough that, when plugged into the camera, caused the camera controls to act strangely. That is weird. Was the other end of the cable connected or just dangling? I think a better title would be "Worn HDMI Cable Causes Camera Operation Problems" or something like that.

I love these kinds of tests!

Sanho cables. Never had an issue & they are super thin.

At this point I'm really only interested in cameras that have full sized HDMI ports for the durability (or I guess SDI too but those cameras are a little outside my price range). Hope Sony steps up to the full sized connector with the A7S3.

I use the Atomos HDMI cable and it works pretty well; I wish it felt more secure, but I think that's just a result of it being micro HDMI.

Regarding the looseness test, did you consider that the port on the camera may be wearing out?

Camera socket could be worn

I was watching at 2.0x speed as i usually do and noticed the funny dance of connectors from 1:46. Hahaha!

If the male connector has wear and tear then the female socket must get some wear and tear too, I wonder how long those micro hdmi sockets last when heavily used.

You should just hot glue in a full-size hdmi adapter. Stop the wear & tear on your camera.

Here in the EU there's at least two years warranty on almost anything, because that's simply the law. By the way, aren't you afraid that all that wriggling might damage the socket?

I wonder a bit of play might actually be a good thing. Acting like a shock absorber and preventing damage to the camera's HDMI port.

Ahhh, those slow electrons in bad cables. They are sooo slow.

The lag is part of hdmi design also your camera port gets wear and tear too

It looks like it's the camera's port?

Micro HDMI sucks and never will be anything good. Either full sized HDMI or put mini SDI or full sized SDI. When I used a Sony a7s with a ronin. I use putty and smush it around the HDMI port. It molds to the connector and keep the connection a bit more secure. Less wiggle up down left right like you tested.

agree with T-Freeman, Sony should have FULL size HDMI port

May be this is way out of my business, but what about using the HDMI attachment clamp that comes with the camera?, or this model does not have the screw to mount this clamp?

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Micro-HDMI is as bad as micro-USB, cable-side and camera-side even worse, as it's mostly unfixable! They're too small and flimsy... Also, I purchased an Atomos, and it broke on me the third time I used it. And it broke by the normal, big HDMI side! Cheap plastic, unbelievably.

Seems these days everyone has a n Atomos :o

Thanks, Dave. Your work is always appreciated. No ThumbsDown from me! But... You start off with the premise of, "...Cable has Lag." Now, sure, the comment below mentions what you were seeing can be considered something other than, "lag," but in starting off this video and mentioning how your camera isn't behaving properly, I was hoping to see if the camera is NOW behaving well after the new cable. It's almost a given that the new cable worked, since you didn't circle back around to it, but... um... did the new cable solve the initial problem?

What the world needs is a suitable locking HDMI connector for cameras. Of course that will never happen as it'd be too large and only really suited to lower end professionals who probably make up 50% of these camera buyers. I hate HDMI as it's unreliable and flimsy. Let's not even discuss mini-HDMI. The world needs to stop pushing for smaller connectors and phones and really start looking at use case and reliability.

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