Hi all,
You guys might remember that several of us discussed the issue of screen grabs at the Cartoon Section Team Meeting, and all of us UK guys found ourselves in the dilemma of not being able to take screen grabs (a.ka. video captures, or whatever you want to call them) from the official WB DVDs because of them being Region 1. Well, I decided to test my laptop’s DVD playing software for myself… 
Now, it’s possible that the reason I was able to do this is because I’m using an as-yet-unregistered copy of a program called CinePlayer - but, my laptop seems to play Region 1 DVDs just fine! And, perhaps most significantly, CinePlayer is a piece of cake for capturing images - it took me literally 10 minutes to create these:
http://www.thundercatslair.org/staff/chris/Screen%20grab%20experiments/ThunderCats%20opening%201.jpg
http://www.thundercatslair.org/staff/chris/Screen%20grab%20experiments/ThunderCats%20opening%202.jpg
http://www.thundercatslair.org/staff/chris/Screen%20grab%20experiments/Exodus%20title%20card.jpg
http://www.thundercatslair.org/staff/chris/Screen%20grab%20experiments/Young%20Lion-O.jpg
I’ve got to be honest and say I would still appreciate some help from MannyC (or rather his lovely wife Nadja! ;)) with these - but, it does mean that the workload for these will be able to be shared out between at least the two of us!
Take care for now, everyone, and speak soon!