For the sake of discussion:

I recently got a working laserdisc player. I had a chance to watch the Definitive Collection Star Wars laserdiscs.
I also had Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Special Longer Version on laserdisc. I tried my hand at my first laserdisc capture, to decent results I was happy with.

While researching how to do it, I came across something cool called The Domesday Project. It appears the British had a project (perhaps like the U.S. census?) where they had preserved some data and had stored it on laserdisc. The Domesday Project (to my understanding at least) takes a laserdisc and instead of using the disc player’s output and mechanics, an RF device captures the signal from the laser. I think they made a digital copy of the disc and then had a kind of virtual machine to play it. As I understood it, perhaps like an old video game emulator. They were able to get more resolution and data out of these RF captures than a straight capture from the output of the player.

Now, I realize we have far surpassed the laserdisc captures with Harmy’s Despcialzied and the 4K77 and 4K83 projects.
But, I was curious if anyone ever captured the Definitive Collection discs (or others) using this process. I know the Cowclops laserdisc captures were done on a very good player, Dr. Gonzo’s was also a good looking preservation. I’m curious if there would be any noticeable gain utilizing this method?

Mine is a working player but I’m aware there were nicer players capable of producing a picture superior to mine. It would be cool to see just how much more could be squeezed out of the Definitive Collection discs (and that Star Trek movie as well).

Just an idea which popped into my head, as I stated, for discussion purposes.

Happy New Year, all.