Harmy said:

You can't bypass analog on LD. LD is an analog format - or at least the video is. When you read about the players that could bypass the analog conversion and output digital, it was about audio only - video on LD is always analog.

Sorry, I didn't mean to indicate I believed LD video was stored in a digital form, I just thought I remembered talk of recording from LD's in higher quality by accessing A/V before it was sent to the analog outputs (like s-video was a better analog source than composite, and grabbing it before any of that processing might prove even better). But now I think about it, it probably was just the DAC they were trying to bypass.