The Pioneer Reference Disc is in the mail and should be here soon but in the meantime I decided to share a 4 minute sample of what the R7G looks like. This is a single pass s-video capture with the comb filter set to 50% strength that is getting fed into the Theater750HD.

I haven't had much time to look it over but it seems like there is much less noise or interference on this player/output combo than on the hf9g composite output. The picture seems sharper. There is some checkerboarding on the first frame of a scene change. Overall, I think this is a bit better than the previous setup and with the 5 capture average method it might be a lot better. Thoughts?

BTW, I just did a quick manual IVTC so there might be cadence changes throughout, if only for a frame or two. Also, i forgot to extend the luma white point while capturing so yeah there is some blown out whites but this should give a general idea of what the player's output is like.