TServo2049 said:

OK, you guys can probably ignore those images I posted. I checked another computer, a Mac, and the bottom ones look completely wrong there too. But the top ones look CLOSER to what I see on my old laptop, albeit not dim, desaturated and yellowish.

I'm thinking it's my new computer's display that needs to be adjusted somehow - even if my old display was wrong, I just can't believe that some of the odd colors I'm seeing on the new one are what Harmy intended. And the problem is that I can't show you because the images won't look the way they do on my display.

But on the same note, due to the white-balance issue, I also know that my old display must be wrong as well...

If you're running Windows 7, you could try to see if there's a colour profile that's buggering things up by opening Control Panel, typing "Color Management" in the search bar, clicking the "Color Management" result, checking the "Use my settings for this device" box under the "Devices" tab in the window that opens, making sure the dropdown list is pointed to your GPU and monitor (should be by default), and then selecting any profile that's in the "Profiles associated with this device" list and clicking "Remove". It'll ask you if you want to do it, and you do.

It will just make sure everything is at default settings; I do it every once in awhile as sometimes my whites become sepia-toned for some unknown reason. I dunno if it'll have any impact on VLC or not, but it couldn't hoit.