Firstly I'd like to thank you for your dedication to creating the cleanest LD capture without alterations (such as fixing sabre effects, removing matte-lines, etc). Does this also mean preserving the Prologic soundtrack in uncompressed PCM?
The clarity and consistency you have achieved through the X0 player is simply amazing. The quality and detail in that capture, the lack of grain and haloing make it comparitable to DVD quality. You have got to the point where you no longer see the limitations of the LD format, but rather the limitations of the source it was copied from. With that said, some faint haloing is still visible. The bottom picture is wider? One of them has been stretched, or squashed...?
The Leia cap, while I'm sure looks great too you - looks far too synthetic, like it's a wax painting or something. The clarity and detail in it are excellent, though. If you going to mod a player for capturing the PAL discs, would it be possible to mod an NTSC unit (ie the X0)? I realize it doesn't have native capabilities to output a PAL picture, but with the right resistors and a compatible PAL-TV chip to rout through instead of the NTSC chip, would it work? When you put a PAL LD into it now does it try and play the movie? Does it get as far as reading the data on the LD and feeding that into the NTSC chip (if it did it would presumably output a garbled picture)? Because if so then I would think it'd be rather simple to mod it to PAL. Though, and this is probably obvious to you LaserMan anyway, if you were to do that you'd want to make damn sure you got those NTSC caps right before trying to mod the player.