Reon in 886

I'm wondering how well 886 owners feel the reon video scaler works...
How good is the picture when scaling (and/or "processing video") a regular cable/sat tv channel with reon compared to the HD channels that your cable/sat service provides going thru something without a scaler?
Any opinions apreciated.
Thanks,
Grog

I've used Reon in my 885, so I can offer some comment regarding its use with cable. The Reon chip is a pretty nice video processor, but it's not going to make SD channels look like HD. You'd be hard pressed to find a video processor that would do that. What it can do is make those SD channels look less like an over-compressed and badly-deinterlaced than the cable box will. The cable boxes I've used have dreadful scaling/deinterlacing performance, so if you can set the box to output a basically unprocessed video signal the Reon can do a consistently better job.

I only have two video sources hooked up to my 886 and both output HD so no upscaling is used.

The improvement in satellite for me was not worth any mucking it might do with my HD sources, so I have it bypassed.

I have a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 4250 HDC cable box. I use a Monoprice 1 in,2 out splitter (HDP-102). All connections are HDMI. With this setup I can watch cable TV with or without the 886. The only reason I use the 886 is for sound processing. I don't see a difference in the video.