Thanks Orinoco, most appreciated and detailed.

The DVL-90 is a very nice machine but with digital standards as they are it can fall short even with composite. I did find that the composite does present a better picture when testing. Maybe finding an affordable but well created video processor to run in-between the DVL-90 and the Panasonic recorder would be a better solution unless I find a PCI video card that can offer the same quality options as a table top processor.

I will keep searching. I really want to put my Japanese 1997 SE sets to DVD without any retouches or edits. Just straight transfers to at least keep them archived for posterity.

:) :)