Update:

So yesterday morning I rendered out a 30 minute portion so I could view it on my Plasma TV, which is very important because I really believe the brightness/contrast on my TV is set correctly, whereas all 3 of my computer monitors are all completely different.

Unfortunately what I saw was hideous. The contrast is so high that dark parts of the film are crushed very badly. And likewise, that has the effect of making the saturation look GOOFY high, which I think is what Poita has been seeing on his end. The sad part is… calibrating a monitor’s brightness can be done relatively decently by eye with calibration charts:

http://www.techhive.com/article/2079503/easily-calibrate-your-new-hdtv.html (see second half of article for images)

I spent the entire day going back and forth between avidemux 15 minute renders and my TV. I’m still not satisfied though I’m VERY close. The hard part is, in order to get the film to look right to me, the black of space is going pretty bright in the intro crawl. One pass correction is starting to bite me pretty hard. 😃 Hopefully I’ll have some new screenshots tonight.