Just fantasizing about how the ultimate LD transfer could be produced. Come on experts, what do you think?

Discs
LD enthusiasts reckon that discs pressed at Pioneer Japan are generally better quality than those from Pioneer USA, so would the best discs be the Japanese “faces” set?

Player
You want the one that has the highest quality disc transport, laser and pickup. Processing electronics unimportant as we want the untouched composite video output. Pioneer HLD-X0 anyone?

Time Base Corrector
Composite video fed into a standalone professional TBC unit to strip and rebuild the signal with perfect video timing. Who makes TBCs for the pro video market?

Comb Filter
The TB corrected signal is fed into a professional comb filter, which will split the signal into component video outputs. I assume that the 3D motion-adaptive type of comb filter is the best?

Capture Hardware
What kind of professional capture board has a component video input?

Post-processing
I’ll assume that you’ll want something better than avisynth and pixiedust?

Encoder
If you spend $-000s to buy CCE-Pro, I think it comes with a Pentium workstation and proprietary capture board included. Is CCE pro the best encoder, or are there better packages used by the studios for DVD production?