Ok, I'm going to scratch the tcomb method and go with the 5 capture average method to alleviate most of the dot crawl. The results are way more reliable and better looking. Thankfully I didn't sell the laserdisc player like I planned to. I might go back and apply this to the JSC set too now that I've got it figured out.

Since the 97se will be a 1 film per disc kind of thing, would it be better to have 480p or 720p? If done at 480p I think I could fit the LD 2.0, LD 5.1, and the theatrical 5.1 DTS all as PCM which I believe should provide the best quality.

@Hair_Hen, I've figured out how to sum to mono but could you explain to me how to figure out if the summing process maintains unity or causes gain increase?