DisgruntledFan

A few comments: 

The Itunes captures look a lot better than the video does in motion, there is a lot of macroblocking and jaggy color gradients.

The laserdisc looks good in motion - but is the softest of the bunch.

The DVD image is actually pretty good. In terms of cropping - it takes a little of the top, a chunk off the bottom - and obviously adds a lot on the sides. There is a lot of dirt on the negative in places which is sometimes distracting.

Any thoughts ?

Captures from the PAL DVD.

Just so you are aware - there is a NF rip on CG at 720p. Quality is good - but not great.

Here are some captures from the itunes version:

As vaguely promised previously first images from an LD cap of 1x03 'Midnight on the Firing Line'.

Will pull some screenshots from the Itunes version for comparison.

Did some capture tests last night. 

In short: with a decent laserdisc player and capture card, median stacking is a waste of time.

The readout of final generation laserdisc players is generally giving you everything there is on the disc on the first pass, subsequent passes will just introduce horizontal timebase error that result in a subtle softening of the image.

Will post some screenshots from my first B5 capture within a week or two.

Very interested in a complete 4:3 set of B5.

It appears that iTunes has Babylon 5 in 4:3, however the quality leaves something to be desired:

Video is 640 x 480@29.97fps Mpeg4 (low complexity) at 1.5 Mbps - with audio as 128kbps AAC - total file size is approx 496 mb, and of course the whole bundle is wrapped up in DRM.

Was the netflix version any better ?

I'd be willing to willing to start doing LD rips, if I had someone else to share the burden. I have an okay LD player (up-market Pioneer CLD-99 clone), and fairly decent capture hardware.