Originally posted by: Moth3r
I'd need to check, but I seem to recall that the TR47 set has PCM captured through analogue audio connections - therefore not a bit accurate copy of the original laserdisc PCM.

I recall somebody saying the TR47 v1 was distorted at its loudest parts, suggesting it was captured analog with the recording levels set too high clipping the peaks of the waveform.
I don't recall Cowclops ever saying which method he used for v2.

Even with a digital rip you'll get a 44.1kHz sample rate from the LD which will need to be resampled at 48kHZ for DVD, so the finished product will never be "a bit accurate copy of the orginal laserdisc PCM" anyway.
Since interpolation is involved, the quality of the software used would then come into play.
Big money professional software might well give better results than a freeware app.

An analog capture @48kHz through a professional soundcard (not the AC97 chip found on bargain-basement motherboards) might sound better than a digital rip processed by a poorly-coded resampling algorithm.

And unless I'm mistaken, I think only the newer discs have a digital soundtrack on them.
Analog capture is the only way to get the '77 stereo mix from the older LDs methinks.
Of course it should still be considered lossless, even if it's from an anolog capture, if it's in PCM format on DVD.
[And a digital rip would be considered lossy if it's later encoded to AC3 on DVD.]