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I have never, ever had an HDMI cord, or a VGA cord for that matter, disconnect unintentionally. I haven’t turned those screws in years.
I gave up on screwing VGA cables way before the turn of the century.
I've had some disconnect unintentionally. What was never a big problem. But HDMI connectors are much tighter, and I don't expect to ever see any disconnect. Ditto for DP.
Anyway, the fact that if you pull a modern cable it will unplug is a feature, not a bug.
I mean, a locking connector is also a feature. Just for a different market
The connection for HDMI is sod, but damn if it doesn't still lose signal every time I move my monitor.
I've had VGA come out by accident when its not screwed in, mostly when cable routing and I give it a little tug to try and get it up to the monitor. I think the main reason for the screws is that VGA isn't intended to be hotswappable so by screwing it in you were ensuring it wouldn't actually pop out while in use and preventing a potential cause damage to components. While HDMI is hotswappable and is designed with specific tolerances to make it fit well enough that it won't fall out by accident when routing and if it did, it won't cause damage to components anyway so its probably better to just let it pull out if it gets tugged on than to have it dragging the system or monitor around.
Work anywhere that the screen is moved regularly (like several times a day) and it'll happen.
Idk, mine flicker a bit when my cats climb around behind my PC. My DisplayPort cable has no issues whatsoever, but my HDMI cable does.
My old laptop's vga port had no screw holes. After years of plugging cables in and out of that port it eventually became loose and unable to hold onto a cable well enough to provide decent contact. In short, vga cables very rarely fell off but they most certainly did became loose and lost signal quality.
The only time the screws came in handy was when a mild earthquake shook an old crt monitor off the table, and out the window whose lip clearly wasn't high enough over the table. Definitely saved someone a broken neck as people were sitting under it. I didn't set it up, I was just there using it.
Another anecdote for evidence, I have never had an hdmi cable slip, and often have trouble with the ones I've been using for over a decade having to be pushed a little harder than is comfortable in order to fit in. Never warped or twisted, still shiny no oxidation. Just likes to be quite snug.
Of course I don't use very many hdmi cables day to day so it could very well be my cable.