R2D2 said:

this is getting better everyday!!! :)

still awaiting the arrival of my ld-player.

can anyone recommend a soundcard with optical digital in?

as the pcm track is @44,1 khz on the laserdisc and this does not apply to dvd nor blu ray standard what do you recommend? resample it to 192 khz pcm?

A few years ago when I was trying to get decent LD conversion with my Sony MDP 850D Player I bought a sound card that specifically supported bitperfect recording via SPDIF.

Most sound cards, even today are not able to make bitperfect digital recordings!

Nearly all sound drivers adjust and manipulate the signal before you can record it.

The card I bought was a Zoltrix Nightingale 6 Pro with a cmedia 8738/8768 chipset. The chipset really is the key factor here. It is crappy for analog, but is one of the few cheap chipsets with true bitperfect digital support. There even is a custom windows driver for these cards:

http://code.google.com/p/cmediadrivers/

http://www.hi-fi-insight.com/the-search-for-bit-perfect-audio-part-two.html

So any cheap PCI sound card with this chipset and optical inputs should work fine.

However since you must resample the audio to 48khz anyway there probably is no point in buying this if you already have a decent sound card (e.g. a recent sound blaster). When I did this a few years ago I had trouble syncing the audio with the video and in the end I just used direct 48KHz recordings made with my Sound Blaster Audigy. It wasn't bitperfect but there was virtually no noise and it was synced perfectly and I didn't need to resample the audio.