I did manage to get a friend of mine to cap this LD for me as I'm not set up for capturing myself at the moment, he does own an identical player to mine which is an Pioneer CLD-D790, he plugged it into an Panasonic DVD-recorder through s-video. Continue on from my post here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Curious-about-Certain-Aspects-of-My-Primitive-LD-to-DVD-transfers/post/522651/#TopicPost522651
...this LD does have the crosstalk artifact all over the place on all sides, what I was surprised by was that the artifact behaves like random video noise for some reason which is very fortunate, it means that most of it can be eliminated by a multicap median/average in avisynth.
As I was taking some needed little break from my THX preservation I did just that, but the median script didn't get rid of it all and the dot crawl and rainbowing is horrible, maybe his recorders comb filter isn't that good or maybe he should've captured it through composite to get better results, I'll make him try it out for me because I'm not happy with it. I don't know, maybe an average script will do better than median, I will try that as well.
A short video sample of it without audio: http://www.sendspace.com/file/sgpy3s
Just IVTC'ed, resized with no additional filtering done just to show the potential of this LD or not. It's soft, extremely dirty and have horrible chroma noise as well as dot-crawl, it is easily removable but not without sacrificing other parts of the picture, so a cleaner capture is what I will ultimately need.
I have no idea how this crosstalk works, but some of it seems to appear randomly and sometimes it is in the same spots. Here's how it looks:
It's very sad because without it, this could very much be the best transfer of ANH on LD, sure it's very dirty and heavily cropped (except the opening crawl, which btw looks much better than the JSC/earlier SWE pressings) but most importantly, it's DVNR-free and have much better colors than any other LD I've seen of this film, much like the early Pan & Scan transfers.
Another thing I thought was interesting is how close the Binary Sunset comes to the Fox-promo material for the 1997 SE on this LD:
Compare for yourselves with these examples: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Colortiming-Cinematography-was-What-changes-was-done-to-STAR-WARS-in-93/post/400372/#TopicPost400372
This is most likely close to how it looked when it was photographed without any post production done to it, other than compositing the second sun of course. ;)
Let me know what you think of the sample, and if you're interested to see me taking a shot at this LD after I have finished THX.