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John,

I read many of your reviews and know your up to speed on these issues but I have to say that the 598 does have the chroma bug. I call it color bug because it does make the reds bleed. To tell you the truth it never bothered me. Some people don't know what Chroma means so I just say color. I know what the real bug is. It didn't show up much in my old 596.

The DCDI chip in the Meridian players does not have the filter for the Chroma bug. Unless there has been updates that I don't know about! There have been enough reviews stating that the 598 does have the bug even with progressive output. All of the big magazine reviews stated this. At least the ones I read! When I get a chance I'll look for one that stated this fact. Now maybe the newer scaling options in the G series has fixed this as well as the newer options for the 800. I'm not up to date on these product offerings.

The Sony VW10HT does not have the ability to accept scaling native to the panel. Sony fixed that after in the VW11HT and the VW12HT. However, the scaling isn't the problem in the VW10HT. The de-interlacing is the problem.

The ISCAN Ultra is a de-interlacer only. There is no scaling beyond line doubling of 480i material. The ISCAN-HD has scaling. This was just released and started shipping just last month.

Regarding HD! I hope your right about HD-DVD and the high compression codecs. However, from a computer stand point Bluray will hold more bits and I think this is the one that will win in the end. Too many manufacturers standing behind it in my opinion. Major PC manufacturers like Dell but even Sony and Pioneer are behind Bluray.

In the end they both will probably win.

Ron

PS. If you know of a report that said otherwise about the 598, let me know. I never looked real close for the bug when I tried DCDI on the 598. I looked at sharpness and 3D qualities and the Ultra was better.