Leonardo seems to be hanging out at the bridge of death these days. ;)

I tried a 704 transfer this weekend with the VNR full blast, and it was like the GOUT, only with bald people. Once I saw the scenes that really suffered with it on, I tried turning it down in increments, and still saw smearing and other unpleasant side effects.

Odd that the 704's VNR seems so detrimental now, as the noise reduction on my Panasonic AG-1980 is so darn useful with mildly noisy cable tv recordings I've made over the years. Maybe they are two different beasts under the hood, with regards to how they work. Leaving the 704 settings "off" is the best option. With the idiosyncrasies all three players have at different parts of the discs, transfers from all of them will give us the best shot at a good looking final product.

erri_wan, "Activate quartz-controlled frequency synthesizer" sounds more natural to me, even if the Italian dubbers were pulling it out of thin air. The closer to what's being said the better.