are these any good?

[basser]

im only after a cheap scaler to boost a freeview signal onto my samsung 32 lcd...are these any good at the job ? any help would be appreciated.
http://www.av1.co.uk/item_detail.php?id=325

CONVERT PAL/NTSC TO DVI FOR HD TV'S

ex. VAT

• CONVERTS ANY BROADCAST SYSTEM TO DVI LEK-CM348ST CM348ST is a high performance video scaler that accepts composite video, S-Video, YCbCr component and RGsB interlaced input and then scales up to high resolution.So you can take any region input NTSC,PAL or SECAM and go to the DVI on your DVI compatible TV,LCD TV,Plasma. Will not work on Macs with DVI input.

• VIDEO TO PC/HD & DVI SCALER BOXES . A VERY HIGH QUALITY WAY TO WATCH SATELLITE FROM ANY REGION TO YOUR DVI INPUT TV. PERFECT FOR USA TV'S BROUGHT OVER TO EUROPE.






€211.22 $355.89 $266.19

[Ultima]

They may improve the picture slightly but you would be better off with a second hand DVDO HD which can be found on the classifieds regularly for about £300.

Martin

[Liam @ Prog AV]

You might be buying something that offers no more processing power than that in the screen already!!! Second hand market for older processors is great place to look if you just want to beef up Freeview a bit. Older iScan (even ultra) or original Lumagen Vision would be where I'd look.

[basser]

thanx liam and ash for your replys....i found one of these ...is this more like it



Progressive Line Doubler


The DVDO iScan Pro is the third version of the highly regarded iScan PureProgressive scan converter. Several significant changes have been made in the iScan Pro. The most exciting addition is the component video inputs not available on earlier iScan models. The component input eliminates the need for the video decoder chip to demodulate the color on the s-video signal which typically results in some loss of color detail and accuracy. The new iScan Pro uses a different video decoder chip (Philips SAA7118E) than was used in the earlier iScan units. The Philips video decoder utilizes 9-bit A/D converters instead of the 8-bit A/D converters found in the Samsung KS0127B chip used in the original

[Liam @ Prog AV]

iScan Pro is very old, and I think using slightly older SiI503 chipset. Still a good deinterlacer nonetheless, not worth a great deal of money second hand I wouldn't have thought. Would probably be more worthwhile getting bargain iScan Ultra or iScan HD original. If the HD can be had for £300 that's gotta put the 2nd hand value of a Pro way down