"Just on another note, I watched my DE set on my home LD player and got about half a dozen sparklies in ANH, on the LD player at work there are *none*. So it looks like some players laser pickups are better at reading crappy areas on the disc than others."

Oh, absolutely. I just can't afford another one anytime soon. Other than that, this is a great player.

"Actually Avid Pro 4.5 has a great frame by frame correction tool that would be perfect for sparkle removal. It's a shame your set suffers from it so badly."

Well, my school laptop has XP, so I may throw it on there with some short snippets, just to see how well it works. Prior to AVID, I was planning on lining up two copies of the AVIs, and when I found a frame with a sparkle, I was going to "punch a hole" over it, and use the same spot from an adjacent frame on the second AVI to replace it. Do you know if AVID does anything like this? It sure would save me a lot of time, as programming the "holes" can be tedious, especially when a frame has 3-4 sparkles on it (I've seen a few while watching the first segment in slow motion. Damned if I don't know this film frame by frame now!

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