Arnie.d said:

I don't want to do much filtering. Maybe just apply NNEDI but no noisefiltering, I want to keep this one entirely DVNR free :).

What's the intention for NNEDI? Is it for the upscaling, with something like spline16resize to downscale to anamorphic dimensions? I can see the benefit of using Edge Directed Interpolation when upscaling from SD to HD resolutions, but a single lanczosresize may produce equally good results if just going from lb 4:3 to anamorphic 16:9. But - try both methods and see what works best.

Agree with your premise of avoiding noise reduction, but have you considered multiple capture averaging at all? Potentially it would let you to keep the real detail (and film grain) present on the laserdiscs, but reduce the analogue video noise introduced in the player and cables.

I did test capture Side 1 and the image is much brighter and has less color than DJ's transfer. I don't really know what's causing this but it could have something to do with the fact that these are Japanese disc so calibrated at a different IRE.

Are there any options for video format in your capture settings? I'm sure my card has separate options for 'NTSC' and 'NTSC-J'. Also can you adjust brightness, contrast, hue and saturation at all?

I don't know how the 7135 compares to older PDI cards. I only know it is much better than my canopus device.

Well the specs for the chip itself mention both an adaptive 3D comb filter and an adaptive 4-line (2D) comb filter. I suppose it depends on the actual card how this is implemented. The PDI uses the older Philips chip (SAA7118) and a Conexant BT878A chip as well.