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Originally Posted by Pirate
How much better is the XA2's SD playback than the A35?
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The XA2 is internally essentially an HD-A2 outputting 1080i to a Reon chip for deinterlacing. So it depends if you already have that chip elsewhere in your system, such as your receiver. If you do, the output of the XA2 won't really be any different than that of an A3.
If the question is, how does Reon deinterlacing compare to the deinterlacing of the A35 or the average HDTV, the Reon is a lot better for standard DVDs.
But as I said to Plissken, its a much more worthwhile investment IMO to put the $350+ you'd spend on an XA2 towards an Onkyo 875 with builtin Reon. Then you can just output one of the cheaper HD DVD players to the 875 and get the same "XA2" quality and on top of that get enhanced quality for all your other sources too (i.e. BD players, HDTV settop box, SD sources, etc). And get new audio codecs, decoding, HDMI input instead of always needing 5.1 analog
etc. Investing in an Onkyo with Reon, in other words, is an investment that helps out your system across the board both audio & video while the XA2 is just limited to the video of that one player.
Especially in your case pirate, you'd kill two birds with one stone by using that XA2 money towards an Onkyo 875.