Panasonic 37" Viera LCD. I adjusted the viewing settings for LD (darker cinema setting). Standard high quality analog video cables have always worked well for me. For sound I'm using a home theater Yamaha RX-V690 receiver with Heybrook HB3 floor standing speakers.

I have Pioneer PDP-LX5090 with player hooked directly to it and I don't have anything bad to say about picture quality, ofcourse it depends heavily of individual releases but with well-mastered discs I couldn't tell the difference to average DVD. Only downfall is that Pioneer doesn't have vertical adjustment for zoomed picture so some (mostly asian) letterboxed discs with non-centered picture area are rather painful to watch.

Hitachi something or other 32" LCD though I have a Sanyo 32" CRT still

Well, my friend thinks DVDs look bad, too. It's Blu-ray all the way now with him.

Pioneer Elite Kuro Pro-141FD Signature Edition - 60" 9.5gen Plasma monitor. The built in comb filter is suberb however deinterlacing is average(very good comparing to many tv sets). I have my McIntosh MLD-7020 hooked upto Entech CVSI-1 outboard comb filter(composite to component 480i) and then Yamaha RX-A3000 reciever with HQV Vida to be deinterlaced, upscaled to 1080p60hz with minor EE, DNR.

Ok, that explains it all: Then the problem ain't playback but can be found from between his ears

I don't have a nice set-up like my friend does (30" CRT 1080i TV, using a Pioneer CLD-D704 or Elite CLD-97), and I can still see the artifacts and jaggies when I watch my laserdiscs, too. If the laserdisc was well mastered, and presented in CAV, it can look almost as good as a DVD, as long as I view it in the 4:3 mode, but that's about it.

Currently have it hooked up to a 32" Vizio LCD but we're in the process of moving. The new house will have a theatre room (sounds more impressive than it is - it's place to put an old couch and my entertainment center) so it will then be hooked to my 55" Sharp Aquous.

100 inch screen with a Optoma hd200x. Looks pretty good. Thinking of trying out a VP or scaler someday.

Pioneer PDP-4350 Plasma TV. 1080i. This Pioneer has a non-standard 43" display.

Just purchased a Phillips 32" 720p HD flat screen.
Has nice variable Format adjustments
Very very pleased with the LD playback.
And X-box live is a bit more fantastic.......LOL !!!

Keeping my JVC 30" CRT for **its and giggles..
I like the picture and just want to keep it on hand.......

I think you may have a bad scaler (most likely built into the TV). You may get a much better picture by getting a good scaler. I play laserdiscs on a large 150 inch screen in my home theater and no "jaggies". Sure the picture is quite dull and fuzzy compared to blu-ray but there is little to no digital artifacts present (and there shouldn't been any digital artifacts as laserdisc video is analog). If you have a good receiver then that will most likely serve as a good scaler for your picture. I use an Onkyo TX-SR875, I hear the pioneer elite receivers are very good too. These will most likely cost about a grand or more, but they also do other things than just upscale your picture.

The LaserDisc player is hooked up to a Denon 2310CI AV Receiver, which has its own scaler. The Receiver is hooked up to the TV with an HDMI cable. On some well mastered CAV discs the picture looks alright, although sometimes the colors shimmer. However, that's on 4:3 TV ratio. If I use the zoom feature on the TV for widescreen LDs, the picture looks worse, of course. (The CAV collector's edition of Star Wars looked like it had digital "jaggies" when I viewed it this way.) Also, I've been using a S-Video cable for the LD player, erroneously thinking that would improve picture quality, and recently I've come to realize that using a composite video cable would be better. (I just found an old composite cable from way back in my closet recently, after searching for one for weeks, so I'll be changing the cables soon.)

Hmmm. Although I am not directly familiar with the Denon receiver you refer to, I would imagine they would put a decent scaler on it as it's not a "cheap" model. Do you know what scaler it uses, on high end receivers they will generally tell you what's inside. For example my Onkyo uses "Reon-HQV™ HD video scaling". You can experiment witch trying other receivers or plugging directly into the TV and see how it changes the picture. Try some different composite cords as well... it shouldn't make a big difference but you never know. It seems like the "jaggies" your getting is an artificial artifact as the analog video signal of LD generally does not have these kind of problems. My laserdisc player (CLD-97) also has a "DNR" option. It makes no perceivable difference on my setup but if your player has this, give it a try.

The Denon has a chip from Anchor Bay Technologies, featuring "10-bit multi-cadence processing", though I'm not sure what that means. I usually keep any video noise reduction on low.

Can you do the "zooming" on the receiver (scaler) instead of the TV? As it is, you are doing two steps of scaling, which can't be healthy.

Only the TV has the zoom function, so one can watch letterboxed 4:3 video in a 16:9 ratio.

Looking at a picture I found with google search, there sure cutting down on the inputs on the back of TV/monitors.

I guess the 1 video input is shared between component and composite? Meaning you can't use both at the same time.

Another good reason to get a DVDO iscan device or an Hitachi AVC unit. Then you can add several legacy players/vcrs and whatever without worry.

I use the DVDO Iscan too. Image is great on my 55" Panasonic Viega Plasma.