Gefen TV Scaler Pro: Realta HQV 1080p upconversion for $699
By Richard Lawler 
posted February 11th 2008 10:24PM
posted February 11th 2008 10:24PM
How can Gefen improve its GefenTV line of equipment? Adding Silicon Optix's Realta HQV processor and pricing it at $699 would appear to be a good start. Originally shown at CES, the Home Theater Scaler Pro takes any source via its dual HDMI 1.3, component, S-video or composite inputs and upscales to 1080p with the same video processing usually reserved for high end equipment like Denon and Marantz's Blu-ray players. True 1080i-to-1080p deinterlacing and per pixel detail enhancement mean your SD sources will look as good as possible -- and not depend on your 1080p HDTV's scaling ability or possible lack thereof -- whenever this box hits shelves.
My 1080p's scaling works good from 1080i to 1080p, or 720p to 1080p, even 3:2 sources in 1080i or 480i. The 480i to 1080p upscaling is decent, not great, but my ps3 upscales DVDs to 1080p and does a great job. I just don't see why anyone would need this. Nearly every HDTV upscales any resolution to the native resolution. Waste of money.
Actually, while every TV upscales, there's a question of the quality of the upscaling and deinterlacing.
Maybe you missed that article that showed about two thirds of currently sold TV sets *can't* properly deinterlace 1080i to 1080p? They just fail that test and serve up a poor quality version.
Does this thing allow for gamma control?
Does this thing allow for Gamma control?
If you read the article it says this is for "prosumers", Andy, you are clearly a consumer. Unless you have a DVDO VP50, this would help any system.