 Welcome to my unboxing of a cable that I actually think is much cooler than cameraman does. This cable features red mirror technology so if you guys have ever seen like a 30, 40, 50 foot HDMI cable in the past what you'll know about them is they're about this thick around and not very flexible they're just absolutely ridiculous. So what for here let's come over to the camera for a second here so what professional video guys use is typically HD SDI which has much longer much more flexible cables however it's got more expensive capture cards that go with it and it's just generally more expensive to use in general expensive cables all that so for six fifty sixty bucks I was able to get a red mirror HDMI cable these are directional mind you these have actual processing built in to the heads on either end so that's what allows them to reach that impressive length with only 28 AWG wire so you can see oh hold on hold on yeah obligatory iPhone size comparison there you go so you can see how thick the cable is it's also much lighter weight it's a huge risk so this is from the source TV no this is from the video source so it's a huge risk to have some heavy huge cable hanging off of this HDMI port right here on the camera if we want to capture video from it see it puts a lot of stress on the connector and that's extremely bad so by having a lighter cable using this red mirror technology who ha then what we can do is we can anchor this somewhere way better than this like somewhere like say for example here anchor this in place run it to the HDMI port and then we can use cheaper HDMI in order to output our video and not worry about expensive SDI or causing all kinds of problems around the set because we'll have this this cheaper and lighter weight cable versus what we would have otherwise had so this will run to the other end to a video capture machine that will have a couple of black magic intensity pro HDMI capture cards that'll go into I don't know which of these is the input and which is the output yet but there you go so you can see it's labeled directionally this is to the TV or the display device and this other end is for the source and that way we can do a multi camera capture live thing using only fairly inexpensive equipment I mean well all things considered I mean these are you know only about a hundred bucks each and the cables about fifty bucks and well the camera is not cheap but it is what it is so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at our red mirror HDMI cable don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos