Also - I noticed you used my clip on youtube. 😉 That’s actually taken from a VHS rip by another user over at the internal organ place. It’s a bit overly filtered for my taste, but it got the job done. You may have noticed I upscaled it to 1080p for better viewing. There’s also a laserdisc rip there but it has been deinterlaced by simply throwing away half the resolution which makes for a very ugly upscale to 1080p. If anyone else out there wants to tackle a laserdisc transfer, you can do a lot worse than using this avisynth script to get proper 24p:

Wow! Small world. 😃
Thanks for the info and the potential help with the LD footage.
One user at Blu-ray.com offered to make a recording on US TV. If it is indeed in HD, I would try that. Else, I would fall back to the LD as the best SD source.