Not all home theater systems, especially older ones, have video upscaling as a feature in either the DVD player or A/V receiver. For those people Gefen has announced its new Home Theater Scaler Plus, priced at around $500.

The Gefen Home Theater Scaler Plus scales video signals to high resolutions ranging from 480i to 1080p, converting analog signals to digital. It comes equipped with with inputs for component video with left/right audio, composite/s-video with left/right audio, and two HDMI inputs each with digital TOSlink and S/PDIF audio. There’s also HDMI output and the video scaler is HDCP compliant.

Other features of the Gefen Home Theater Scaler Plus include source switching and “additional high performance refinements based on dual scaling engines, video adaptive de-interlacers, advanced color engine technology and less than one frame delay.” It is available now.

Gefen Home Theater Scaler Plus