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thewire wrote:
 My scaler is made for the industry and I don't understand how it is going to look less good than a consumer product but this is the reality of advancing technology I guess. |
It boils down to the chipset used. The XA2 is a pretty high end player and brand new was fairly expensive. Your CS2 was released over 4 years ago and uses the Silicon Image Sil504 chip. It was the best back then. The XA2 uses the Silicon Optix Reon chip which is considered one of the best currently. The Sil504 still isn't bad, the Reon is just better. The CS2 is better in one respect as it will upconvert anything passed into it, rather than the XA2 only doing the discs that are played within it.
You might also want to avoid upscaling to 480p in the XA2 first and just pass the raw unscaled video to the CS2. Scaling twice could introduce problems from what I've heard (maybe).
You might be able to find a good deal on a 1080i/720p projector. I bought my Epson 550 off Ebay for $500 last August. It would be hard to match the PQ of a CRT projector though. With Bluray set to take over in 2-5 years I wouldn't see the point unless you went 1080p.