got the LD in the mail yesterday. It is in pristine condition and freakin gorgeous. I'll hopefully have my ld player tommorow and will check out the quality of the video and all tommorow night after work or tuesday. Unfortunately, my buddy got rid of his standalone dvd-recorder, so I guess we're going to try a different method of "conversion" (some kind of capture card or something that is the norm for this). Anyone have any suggestions?