Moth3r said:

Possibly the ideal would be to use a video scaler to convert the composite signal into component outputs (look on ebay, scalers are not as important in the digital age)

From what I can find on the net, the Faroudja 'video scalers' and video processors all seem to upsize the image and change it in some way and usually to a higher resolution. The best I could find convert to 720P output as a minimum which I guess is not ideal considering LD is interlaced. I thought the idea was to do the scaling and deinterlacing in s/w as this can have better results than scaling in real time. The only devices that I could find that did not seem to scale the image were the two combfilter/chroma decoder devices that you mentioned in the X0 forum.

Has anybody used or owned any of these devices and can comment on all of this stuff please?