So I was fiddling about while I was waiting for things to encode and what have you today and I thought I would share some of my findings. :)

First of all is saturation, now I know some here would have me boost this more then I already have, and believe me I would love to, however to keep everything broadcast legal as it were I can't not without crushing/clipping areas of high saturation i.e. the red light/LED behind Greedo in the Cantina. What I mean by crushing/clipping is that the red light would go from looking like a light bulb where you can see the glowing filament inside the main glass bulb to one big bright red mass with no detail to it.

Next is contrast, once again some here would have me boost this more then I already have, and once again I would love to, however the problem is that the GOUT has inconsistent blacks which can vary as much as 10 IRE between one scene and the next. An example of this would be if you were to adjust the black point on a waveform monitor in the scene where Vader and his pal walk down the Tantive hallway so that the bottom of the Luma wave is just touching the baseline (0 IRE for PAL) and then take the same setting and apply it to the "I find you're lack of faith disturbing" scene you would find the blacks in this second scene are being crushed with the bottom of the Luma wave at about -10 IRE. The white point on the other hand is fairly stable throughout but then this doesn't surprise me because the GOUT suffers from clipped whites. :(

Knowing this the way I see it there are two options, push things as far as you can until these secondary problems become apparent or push things to the desired levels and accept/put up with the secondary problems as a by product. Neither situation is ideal but thenI suppose you have to play the cards your dealt. ;)