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2 HDMI inputs, 1 component input, 1 composite/S-video input and the HQV Realta 10-bit video processor -- all in one box: the Gefen TV Scaler Pro for $699 in April.
Still have a laserdisc collection? This box will convert the analog output to 480i digital, deinterlace to 480p and then scale to 1080p. Want your DVDs to get as close to Blu-ray as possible? Feed the HDMI input with 480i and it will deinterlace and scale to 1080p using one of the best video processing chips on the market.
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the upscaling technologies for standard DVDs will get so sophisticated to render even Blu Ray obsolete.
This is an alternate strategy for getting to the same place whereby the computer chip makes educated "guesses" what the data should be that isn't there on the standard disk and displays a picture based on those increasingly smarter guesses, versus having the missing data actually stored on and read from the disk. The guesses could get so good that almost no one would even notice they were still guesses.
As a math problem this is certainly not impossible, and places like NASA deal regularly with photographic data invariably of lower resolution than they would like. Remember the effort underway to clean up the low res photos Hubble created before its new camera "fixed" the mirror curvature problem.
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Equaling the quality of a native High Definition encode is something that's not possible, even with the best video tehnology; however, products like this will get you close. Not all DVDs in ones collection are rated "5-star" (or even "4-star", for that matter) and the catch with this technology is that the source must be high in quality to begin with. Those transfers are the ones that will be best at exploiting this technology and making the decision to upgrade to the Blu-ray version, at least for the video, a bit harder.
But if you don't yet own own the movie, it's a new release, it's one of your favorite movies or if you want lossless audio, the decision to buy the High Definition Blu-ray version should be rather easy.
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