You_Too said:

Congratulations! Hope you'll be able to make the ultimate JSC preservation sometime. :)

I hope so, too.

My Panasonic LX-900U won't be able to compete with a Pioneer HLD-X0 or X9, but the PQ is excellent and smear-free.

Also, "Mode 1" noise-reduction eliminates most drop-outs, but doesn't harm the picture at all, from what I'm told.

Look here: http://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?p=26194#p26194

The 900 EXCELLS at reproducing shades of color that NTSC hates, like saturated lavenders and crimsons - and without streaking or flicker - I always leave my 900 set with the digital noise reduction in Mode 1 because it cleans up all discs without harming the picture on good discs in any way - with resolution charts and such, you can't even see that it's operating other than the lack of chroma or luma noise. Mode 2 of the DFNR gives a substantial amount of video NR, but damages diagonal resolution - on an interlaced set, you'd never see it - but on a progressive scan set, angled edges and such take on a stair stepped quanitized look due to the field correlation NR processing.