VHS to Digital Converter - Gefen Upscaler Review

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If you've seen some of my other recent videos on up scalers you will notice that I did a review about which upscaler is the best but in that video I limited all of my upscalers to those devices that were less than $150 but in the comments I got a request to review the "Gefen composite to HDMI upscaler" this upscaler of course is a little more expensive as it runs for around $250 but as the old.. adage goes "you get what you pay for" and in the case... for the Gefen device, this holds true. If you don't know what an upscaler is, or how you would use one to convert videos I suggest you check out my previous video, I will leave a link to them in the description, along with a card at the end of this video Be aware I am not sponsored by anyone I am just a gadget guy with a practical sense, and these are just my opinions, good or bad Before we continue on our discussion around the Gefen upscaler if you could do me a huge favor and hit that Like and SUBSCRIBE button I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. lets get into it Now if you don't remember what an upscaler is in short an Upscaler takes some form of analog signal and upscales it or converts it to some digital form generally turning a lower resolution video into a higher one and it does this while trying to minimize the amount of distortion that is caused by stretching the original image to fill the larger screen So if you have not seen my other upscaler video I'm going to compare this Gefen device against my top rated device from that other video which was the Yitrox upscaler So out of the gate we can just compare these two devices on price the Yitrox device ran for about $38 but it did require you to get a better power supply due to the fact that the one that came with it was junk, and produced noise in the videos it converted, you can watch the other video to understand that issue better. But if you combine the Yitrox upscaler and the power supply, cost wise that solution is around ~$53 If we use that as our starting point for comparison. The Gefen device runs for $249 on amazon as of the time of this video, so we are talking almost a $200 dollar difference. I am also going to throw out there that in this case, I do believe you get what you pay for. Because I will admit the picture the Gefen produces, is very nice, and out of the box I had no issues with the device in any way Take a look at this example If you look at the same rafting video I have been using, the colors from the Gefen device are much more vivid looking at the yellow in the Raft, it looks like it is actually "yellow" where with the Yitrox the color is more orange or washed out yellow. picture wise I felt they both did a comparable job, and are on par with one another but you DO have to take into count the color quality as that does make a difference. Also I am upscaling a video from 20 years ago.. so I can't expect miracles here Please note The videos you see here are the original, untouched versions I am not touching up the videos in these tests, I am just using the device out of the box and letting the device just do its thing When we being to compare features of each device with the Yitrox the only real setting you can change is its resolution. for which the Yitrox will give you 11 different options for output resolutions. and those do include some 4 by 3 and 16 by 9 ratios Where in comparison, the Gefen device provides 18 different possible options as I have displayed them all for you here I will also put these in the description below, along with the table by name, because the Gefen for some reason, displays the resolution by the "standards name", and not the pixel resolution If we were just talking about the Yitrox device our comparison would over But the Gefen device gives you many other options you can choose from and even further adjust the video quality it outputs As we can see here: The Gefen device has a menu button and a (plus) and (minus) button on the side Pressing the Menu button brings up an on screen menu that gives you a few options you can change Walking through the menu: We can first see that we can adjust the Contrast, or Brightness Then Under the "Finetune" option We get the ability to adjust the Hue, Saturation, sharpness, and Noise Reduction Under the "Color" option We get the ability to change the Red, Green, Blue values and then with the "Size" Option we get the 5 choices: Full - Default overscan underscan letterbox panscan If you didn't catch that.. you might need to rewind and do that again... Editing that was fun The Output option: Give us the ability to select any one of the 18 different resolutions as I have already shared with you. Which includes multiple 4 to 3 and some 16 to 9 aspect rations under "Sound" We can choose the sound to come from the composite Left/Right Or the optical We can also just turn off the sound all together You can also change the On Screen Display location and timeout values If we compare the physical devices The Gefen is more than twice the size of the Yitrox, and for Inputs when we compare the Yitrox to the gefen we can see that both of the devices have composite inputs, and a s-video input The Yitro does have a HDMI input where the Gefen does not but in most of my examples we are trying to upscale analog composite signals not really digital ones, so I don't know how important it is that the hdmi input The Gefen device also has the ability to take in Optical sound in addition to the Composite Left / Right connectors Now as for the outputs Both the Yitrox and the Gefen provide a digital HDMI as the output and they both have an audio output jack for sound. Now the Gefen device has the additional Optical output should you want to use that. Now in the box with the Gefen you will also get what looks like a high quality composite video cable and for the power supply, it seems to be of a high quality unlike the Yitrox, which as you saw in my other video I shared with you that you would need to purchase a better one But for the Gefen device, I did not get any of the discoloration, or the power issues, and the Gefen power supply does come with all the adapters for international use. and it clearly supports both NTSC and PAL formats Overall the Gefen device is superior to the Yitrox device, and it seems you will get a better quality image compared to the Yitrox, but it will cost you more So if you have the budget to get this device over the Yitrox brand, I would have to agree with the folks that left the recommendation in the comments and go with this gefen device it is a great upscaler, and worth the money So I will leave you with a little more sample here, and I have had multiple requests to provide longer samples of the difference devices So I will leave that video linked here, along with the original Upscaler review As always thanks for watching Please remember to like and subscribe Have a great rest of your day. and catch you next time.
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Length: 7min 29sec (449 seconds)
Published: Sun Mar 12 2023
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