THX, sorry about not responding before. I must have missed your post.
1. We are still working on Faces captures on the X0. At this point. as far as I know, we're using interim captures off another LD player just to see what we're up against. The plan though is to have caps from both versions to use if necessary. There are definitely strengths to both versions that we will want to use in the end.
2. We are looking into PAL captures, but haven't done much as of yet. There really isn't any PAL player out there with a clean enough composite signal to rival the X0 and its superior quality output. Even with the lower NTSC resolution, it still beats any PAL player we've seen.
3. Haven't seen this transfer yet so I can't say. Sounds promising though. We do have a set or two of the Special Collection LD's and we'd like to do X0 caps of them as well.