Brightness inconsistent on certain TVs

I've finished color correcting a short film I shot and am having a problem. Three of the scenes are somewhat dark. After getting the levels where I want them, it looks dark on my cinema display and lighter on my external monitor. Now when I put it onto a dvd and watch it back on different TVs, it either looks like it did on the external monitor or... now here's the problem... it is so dark that you can barely see anything. It's especially bad on wide, flatscreen TVs, although a normal 27" tube TV played it dark too.
When I was originally correcting it, I noticed it was really dark on my cinema display. I thought maybe if I correct the brightness levels so that it looks OK on the display, it would help. It didn't.
I'm a complete amatuer at this stuff. I figure if it's too dark on someone's TV, they'll have to increase the brightness on it. I was just wondering if maybe there is some kind of "pro secret" that would keep the brightness levels somewhat consistent on different TVs. I hate that people will have to stop the movie to adjust the brightness on thier TV.
Thanks
Dual 2.5 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

I was taught this. I don't know about books or sites
for this skill. Always something that was taught in
a broadcast work environment. If there is, they
might be might rare books.
Shane
Sounds like the jedi mind tricks... or some kind of ninja apprentiship.
A person has to get their hands into it to learn it, and so much of the professional vectorscope & waveforms deal with engineering and science and math and physics and electricity... etc... I'm sure it would be hard to try and fit all that into a book.
I also wonder how much of that is going out? Once everything goes digital, there won't be much of a need for vectorscopes & waveforms to calibrate equipment. All monitors, TV sets, etc, will have the same color/brightness. What is red here is red there.
At the same time, we do all have computer monitors, hmm... but most of them are still VGA and in the analog world, even digital monitors will differ from each other.
Color is such a mysterious thing, maybe we'll never get a standard on it. But calibration that used to be done by vectorscopes and waveforms are now being done by Spyder & Eye-One's. I think that's the direction it will all go for calibration.
We don't have to calibrate video going out to DVD's, and once all TV's are digital, maybe that's when vectorscopes & waveforms will be obsolete.
'nuff said.
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