I don't remember which model he used but it's one of the better ones going by various tests done over at Videohelp forums, Silver will tell you. That odd checkerboard pattern is visible sometimes but it's so insignificant on his captures that it's not a real problem, on the one I tried to cap the Technidisc however, holy shit was it bad, a newer Panasonic model.

It would be great if you could post a sample or two from your LD. :) I'll try to point out which scenes I'd like to see samples from a little later. Thanks!

EDIT: misread your post, I see you haven't access to your player at the moment. Well that testpattern posted over at lddb shows that you have really fine equipment, interesting thread.