pupil, I know DV has high chroma compression but I am finding that it doesn't appear to be much of a problem. Usually when I'm capturing NTSC laserdiscs I've had to use VirtualDub's internal chromasmoother filter because of the blocky reds etc. but because I'm capturing the PAL set it doesn't seem to suffer as much, I've noticed that the colours on my NTSC definitive LDs are often slightly over-saturated compared to my German THX LDs. Here's a couple of R2 pics in anamorphic PAL:
