Oh yeah, it does. Sorry for the confusion. I was reading Denon's detailed specs wrong. They list two different scaler chips there, but don't have checks next to either. But on the textual description it does say it has the Anchor Bay VRS ABT-2010. So as long as Denon implemented chip correctly, you can pass on the external scaler. Additionally, that ups my vote to putting the Denon with the Pioneer display.

Good catch, thanks.

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-Chris