Monoprice Redmere Extra Long & Thin HDMI Cable Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of a cable that I actually think is much
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cooler than cameraman does this cable features red mirr technology so if you
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guys have ever seen like a 30 40 50ft
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HDMI cable in the past what you'll know about them is they're about this thick
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around and not very flexible they're just absolutely ridiculous so what for
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here let's come over to the camera for a second here so what professional video
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guys use is typically HD SDI which has
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much longer much more flexible cables um
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however it's got more expensive capture cards that go with it and it's just
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generally more expensive to use in general expensive cables all that so for
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6 50 60 bucks I was able to get a redm
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or HDMI cable these are directional mind you these have actual processing built
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into to the heads on either end so that's what allows them to re that
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impressive length with only 28 AWG wires
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so you can see oh oh hold on hold on yeah obligatory iPhone size comparison
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there you go so you can see how thick the cable is it's also much lighter
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weight it's a huge risk uh so this is
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from The Source TV no this is from the
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video source so it's a huge risk to have some heavy huge cable hanging off of
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this HDMI port right here on the camera if we want to capture video from it you
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see it puts a lot of stress on the connector and that's extremely bad so by
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having a lighter cable using this red mirror technology hoo-ha then what we
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can do is we can anchor this somewhere way better than this like somewhere like
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say for example here anchor this in place run it to the HDMI port and then
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we can use cheaper HDMI in order to
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Output our video and not worry about well expensive
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SDI or causing all kinds of problems around the set because we'll have this
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uh this cheaper and lighter weight cable
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versus what we would have otherwise had so this will run to the other end to a
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video capture machine that will have a couple of Blackmagic intensity Pro HDMI
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capture cards that'll go into I don't know which of these is the input and
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which of them the is the output yet but there you go so you can see it's labeled
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directionally this is to the TV or the uh display device and this other end is
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for the source and that way we can do a multi camera capture live
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thing using only fairly inexpensive equipment I mean well all things
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considered I mean these are you know only about 100 bucks each and the cables
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about 50 bucks and well the camera is not cheap but it is what it is so thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and first look at our redm HDMI cable don't
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