Gefen Unveils Their Serious TV Scaler Pro for Maximum Upscaling
April 17th, 2008 — By Charlie RobbApril 17 – Gefen is showing off a very neat new home theater product.
The new Gefen TV Scaler Pro does precisely what the name indicates, it upscales your TV signals.
It’s actually pretty impressive if you are one of those consumers who swear by the quality of upscaling.
The TV Scaler Pro will utilize the very powerful Silicon Optix Realta HQV processor to upscale any incoming signal.
It can receive signals from HDMI, S-video, or component ports, and will also perform true 1080i-to1080p deinterlacing.
All in all, the Gefen TV Scaler Pro appears to be a very nifty offering, especially because you won’t have to look for TVs that will perform this upscaling for you, if you are one of the upscaling fanboys.
The only downside of the Gefen TV Scaler Pro is the price, $699. But $700 might not be that bad if you are looking for upscaling that is going to be as close to true 1080p as humanly possible at the moment.
Charlie, it sounds as if you’re an upscaling naysayer.
All signals to a display besides native resolution signals will need to be either deinterlaced, scaled, or both. So what’s the problem with having it be of high-quality?
Now if by “fanboys” you mean to indicate those that say “I don’t need HD, I just upscale,” then I’m in agreement with you. But your post was ambiguous on part.
Comment by ender21 April 17th, 2008 @ 2:35 pmOh, and $699 is a *lot* less than some standalone scaling units from other manufacturers, though you probably get what you pay for, since the likes of Lumagen and ABT put out some pretty good, feature-laden, products.
Comment by ender21 April 17th, 2008 @ 2:37 pmOh I’m not a upscaling naysayer at all. I think we are in agreement, because it is the “I dont need HD because I have upscaling” that I object to. Also the marketing literature and product releases of the past 2 or 3 years have been geared towards “UPSCALING…and also some other stuff”. This bothers me on a fundamental level. For this product though, I see nothing wrong with touting the upscaling because it upscales as its primary function.
In terms of the price, Lumagen’s TV upscaler is much more expensive and feature laden, but $700 is still quite a bit of money to the Joe Everymans out there for a fringe feature.
Comment by Charlie Robb April 17th, 2008 @ 3:07 pmFair enough. Thanks, Charlie!
Comment by ender21 April 21st, 2008 @ 8:36 am