Hafeez/Glen -
The Runco (which I own) is NOTHING more than an NEC MP42
on Runco steroids. Whoops, did I say steroids? I didn't mean that, well, not completely, I mean, ah, well..............
Yeah, thanks Ken C.!
I had the MP42 first, and went to the Runco JUST because it had the scaler. That makes it better, but pair a scaler (TAW, Faroudja NRS) with the NEC and they will be the same (or better), and heck, probably still substantially less!
Dan