What Happens If You Cut Wires in HDMI Cable?

I performed an experiment in order to see what will happen if you cut wires in HDMI cable. I've got very weird results.

[stergiospagiopoulos]

In the HDMI cable you have 8 cables (4 twisted pairs) that send image/sound data. The others are basically detecting that you turned on a device and perform a handshake to check that the HDCP encryption is established before sending image, so if you don't interrupt the connection you still have data but you cannot reestablish the connection without them. On the plug you also have 4 pins I think that are ground for the shielding. Although not explained in the video, it answered my question for what I was trying to do, nice video.

[cupOpoodles]

Although this wasn't quite what I was expecting when searching for an answer to a technical issue I'm having it actually answered my question just fine and to boot was a joy to watch. Especially liked the "red looks important" bit. Cheers.

[jessecoonen]

HDMI is packed full of many options of data and control. It’s more than just a video cable or a way to hook up a monitor. There’s sometimes power, control for other equipment. You have enough to make the monitor work with all those wires cut, but HDMI does a lot more than the things you are testing for.

[jonamism]

I Just loved this video...thank you for making this...so innocently you have shot this video....i guess you yourself
do not realise what a great thing u have done!! thanks

[sgabyleone]

Hi sorry is it possible to identify the audio wires between the 20 wires that make up the cable? Which colour has It?

[lukmanmanggo]

nice video.
what if using rg45 wire (lan) to extend it. ab 5 - 10 meter'or more.
cut the original hdmi, and join with lan wire in between ? thanks

[mdvmusicadetodoslostiempos]

I liked the way you explain the video, I will apply it with our students. thanks from mexico

[carlospenauscanga]

Hi. Do you know if the AUDIO can disappear by cutting one of the Wires?

[TheLordsofDogtown]

How do you use the lighter? just heat up and pull the plastic cover?

[AdvaitThakur]

Very nice experiment. It also tells how HDMI works.

[rajinderchauhan]

How can we made HDMI2 audio video cable?

[obughan]

Gd experiment... now we know wat happens and we can try other experiments based on these

[azimalif]

Some of the wires are probably there to identify the display and It's specs. So after connecting and knowing what type of display it is, it doesn’t need them anymore until reconnected.

[BonJoviTrader]

Thank you, your video is very helpful, but did you maybe try tu cut 3 HDMI cables and put them together, so that 1 HDMI can go into PC, or laptop, the second in a HDMI Monitor and the 3th in HDMI LCD, if you know what i try to say? So when I play games, I don't have to constantly remove the HDMI cable from my PC to plug the HDMI cable from my LCD, so it means I can watch both the LCD and the Monitor via my PC.

[supremasqueen]

hello is it impossible to convert my small vga into my big vga using the vga to hdmi ?

[thecolorenhancmentchannel]

Is there a way to stick any of the wires into an old school tv and save money by not getting an rf modulator?

[hamedhosseinian]

I thinks there's something like a digital synchronisation applied to the six or four wires including red blue green and yellow or purple wires whoes duty is to transmit colours as digital data i think is called TMDS or something unlike the rgb or vga cables that if for instance you cut red wire in that connection only the red colour disappears in the screen and in digital colour transmission disconnecting a single wire of any colour would mean a lack of a digital colour synchronisation in the receiver so it results in black screen after cutting one of those wires

[webnetred]

Un video de como hacer un adaptador SlimPort HDMI para el movil y tv ?

[totiv.]

Maybe you could show me how to make an HDMI to USB type A cable, thanks

[GBenCalleRD]

Greetings, I like your videos and I want to know if I can make an adapter cable from normal HDD to sata to HDMI, to use it as an external HDD 350 GB