SO whose in charge of your scaling you or your components?

I have an older Pio 503 plasma which is coming our of storage and being installed -- so I've been researching how to get it to play nice with some other basic components -- that all have HDMI... and how to get HDCP into the Pio

All the new components want to be THE SCALER..

I get a new DVD player and it wants to scale the video - I get a new AV Receiver and it wants to scale the video ... I put a scaler in between the components and now and I want to turn off all the scaling but the central scaler -- but to get an HMDI port with HDCP in the PIO 503 -- I need to buy a board like the older Aurora TVP 1000 and guess what it wants to do the scaling --

Now wouldn't it be nice there was an old fashioned manual switch that said on/off for scaling and you could just turn it on or off

I want to be in charge of the scaling not the components

Michael M

In PAL land we get the additional fun that precious few screens will accept their native res @ 50Hz over HDMI/DVI so most screens INSIST on doing some scaling. If it wasn't for HDCP noone would care either, we just wouldn't use digital connections.