JohnK, yeah, I was glad to find out that other's share this opinion about the Denon manuals. I tried downloading one off their website to figure out if the receiver had upscaling, and I thought I was just in over my head b/c I had trouble understanding it ...

The reason the Pioneer Elites are appealing is b/c a couple of them have the Faroudja scaler, which I've heard lots of good things about. While the projector I'm interested in, the Panasonic AE9000U, does have a built-in scaler, that feature isn't touted in any way, so I assumed it might not be as good as the Faroudja.