Thanks for the reassurance. Only had it a few days but I'm very pleased .. especially the picture quality. A friend bought a 55" Mitsu Diamond series for 4K. Is there much difference? I appreciate your comments, seeing that you're in the electronics business.
I have some very old (30 yr) MacIntosh speakers. Can I hook them up to my Pioneer and should I? (Also, have other old Mac electronics that I don't use anymore.)
BTW, I also saw the Ed Sullivan show, featuring the Beetles, back in the mid 60's? Oh my, guess that makes me pretty old.
I remember the Ed Sullivan show and the Beatles coming over here!
You bet...your Pioneer is much (and I don't mean a little) better!
All HDTV monitors (that I know of) upconvert a normal 480i (meaning 480 lines interlaced) scanned picture to 480p (meaning 480 lines progressively) scanned.
This is accomplished by interpolating (ie...making it up) an imaginary line from the information of one scan line and the next and painting that between the two.
This is commonly call a "Line Doubler". A "Scaler" is an even a more complex program that looks at the picture that happens before and after a scene (or field) as well as the lines themselves.
And to add to your (no doubt) confusion, there is also the case that film runs at 24 fps (frames per second) while video is 30 fps. The way to make film look good on a video projector is to do what is called a 3/2 pulldown, where some frames are shown twice and others are shown 3 times to match the 24 fps to 30 fps.
And LASTLY, since most TV that you watch is "square" (a 4:3 ratio) the new sets are rectangular (16:9) and so, to make the 4:3 fit the 16:9, the picture has to be distorted (stretched) to fit. That is an algorithmic equation as well, and some are better at it than others.
WHAT I am saying is that your Pioneer Elite does all three jobs (Line doubler, 3/2 pull down and resizing) far better that the Mitsubishi.
It's not even close (though the Mits are getting better...their first line doubler was stomach churning horrible)
Speakers are subjective, so I'd have to hear them, but McIntosh (showing my age again, when I hear McIntosh...I think "Amplifier"...the "kids" think "Computer"..LOL) is TOP SHELF stuff.
I mean better that 99% of the stuff on the market. And if it's tube equipment, it's now worth about 100 times more than the day it was bought.
One of my most memorial nights was listening to an old MC 220 stereo tube amp a friend had picked up. Listened all night with no ear fatigue.