HDMI or VGA versions of the HD Box Pro / lkv7600 for PS2?

[xeos]

I have a lkv7600 hooked up to my PS2 via component cables and I'm mostly satisfied with it, though the deinterlacing performance it not great - anything with a lot of motion looks blurry. If spending up to $50 would net a better picture I'd be happy to do it, but the various iScan, xRGB etc. products are out of my price range, and I've been watching ebay for cheap ones long enough to have given up on that avenue too.

The box I have outputs to VGA, and is rather old (and the output is green). Is there any indication that more recent revisions of the cheap transcoders on Amazon/ebay are any improvement over the lkv7600? In particular the models that output to HDMI have drawn my interest, in part due to some videos on youtube that seem to show these looking better than the output from the box I have. I've also noticed some "PS2 to HDMI " adapters that I suspect are just a much more compact version of the same thing, but hey, one can hope...

I'd rather have a good old CRT, but the place I'm using this can't fit the depth of a CRT, so I really have to be able to display the final output on a LCD. I suppose I could justify the higher cost of a new LCD TV if there are any cheap ones that have good upscaling and deinterlacing.

I've already read the threads on the HD box pro (ie http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... it=LKV7600) and the thread on the Sony W6, but these are all pretty old threads so I'm wondering if there's any improvements in the cheaper options since then.