Have now discovered that the
Pioneer 868AVi is one of the new breed of universals (due for release next month) which has been designed, primarily, to work their new breed of plasmas.
As for the 2900, I'm not giving up on it, but it won't be coming from AV-Land. From my point of view, today's performance left their reputation a little bruised and battered.
JSap
Many thanks for the info - albeit a little academic now.