@patkhoo: What I did to find the balance in the movies was to take lots of frames from each movie, put them in photoshop beside each other in one big file, and let photoshop auto find the mid-balance of the greyscale.

Also, keep in mind that the movies were projected with warmer bulbs back in the day, as Mike Verta discussed in Harmy's thread. This would make them look more warm than the 70mm scans, which I bet were scanned using today's standards.

And this shot was just one of very many in that movie. Some shots still have a very cold feeling to them. The GOUT does not do a good job in representing the original color but I think we did the best we could to bring some of it back.

And about the sample on myspleen: I know some people saw artefacts in dark scenes, and that's because it's much more compressed than the final blu-ray will be. Some dark details you haven't seen before are also brought up a bit from the increase in saturation.

Right now me and DJ are discussing something more important though, that I noticed in the sample, and that's the strongest reds bleeding color to the left from where they should be. This was caused by the encoder it seems, so we're trying to find which setting caused it.