I've won the bid on the Pinnacle PCTV Stereo. I also ordered a new card from Amazon in the states. It's a Diamond Theater 750 HD. It's supposedly got a better comb filter than the saa713x chips. It's got a 5 line 2d comb+3d motion adaptive comb. The saa7134 on the Pinnacle is a 4 line 2d I think. I've seen some comparison screenshots with the snell & wilcox pattern online and it looks better there but we will have to see how it pans out in real life I suppose.

I've also been looking through the service manual for the cld-99(cld-hf9g) to see if there is any possible way to bypass the 3d y/c of the player. It looks to me like the RF signal gets fed into a Digital Video Processor IC where it gets converted to digital and clocked. It leaves this chip exactly like this and goes directly into the 3d y/c chip and then into a few other things like the on screen display overlay chip before going to a DAC and leaving the player. Unless my HF9G is different than the 99, tapping this digital signal between the processor and the 3d y/c chip is the only way to bypass all of the filter chain and sending it directly to a modern comb filter. Unfortunately, this seems to be a bit over my head and involves some other hardware that I don't understand.

Actually looking a bit closer I see that the signal Y's before leaving the Digital Video Processor chip. One side exits and goes digitally to the 3d Y/C chip and the other hits an internal DAC on the chip and exits on a pin and then goes nowhere? If this is true I could take the analog signal directly after the TBC and not have to worry about a lot of extra equipment. Is there anybody who can confirm this on the CLD-HF9G or CLD-99? I can send the service manual to anybody that wants it. Here's a picture of the chip. I've tried to trace the video signal in a simple way so it's easy to see.