Thanks for the feedback guys. Also, thanks for confirming that the new posts are downloadable.

With that being said, at this point, I have to halt all capturing because I've just acquired an R7G and I feel like it might be better for capturing than the HF9G. I want to figure out which machine is best for capturing before going any further.

I believe that capturing with the s-video from this unit might be the way to go actually. I have a copy of ggv1069 on the way. Let's hope I get this one. The last two times I tried to get it off LDDB and got ripped off. This time I had my sister order it from pioneer and she's going to forward it to me here in Europe.

Once it gets here I'm going to do some tests and then post some clips here and with the help of some expert eyes we can determine which settings/player to use for future captures. I plan on doing 3 captures for each output(composite/s-video) on each machine using 0%,50%, and 100% as the comb filter strength. The Y/C dnr and the sharpening will always be turned off during these test captures.

For the raw captures I will always leave the laser rot alone but for future BD releases I was thinking about doing a 1 pass manual "dirt" removal and target not dirt but laser rot. I can pretty easily make it through about 5-10 minutes of footage a night just flipping through frames. Of course with 1 pass and 1 set of eyes I might miss the occasional blip but it won't erase any buttons or pupils, etc.

EDIT: BTW, will soon be adding THX-1138 to the list on the first post as long as it arrives here safely.

EDIT2: The 2000 Japanese pressing of the 97 SE's is on the way as well. I don't know if this has anything to offer but I've never heard of anybody preserving it and I figure a 2000 pressing might be better than a '97 pressing.