msycamore said:

Thanks for confirming! Just to make sure you guys know exactly what "crosstalk" I'm referring to:

See the sky. Apparently a mastering defect which causes the laser pickup to read a signal from the adjacent pit track that interferes with the signal from the main track as I've seen it described. Was able to get rid of it with the multi-cap median script. But I'm still not ruling out a faulty player until I'm sure you guys see the same thing. Thanks.

Yeah, we used to call this the "Herringbone Pattern" back in the day. You'd get it on some discs. It's a manufacturing fault in the actual disc, and was always grounds for an exchange. Sometimes you'd have to go through a couple of exchanges before you got a good copy.

That being said, a Laserdisc player with a misaligned laser would display this fault even on good discs...