Color Settings, Gamma and such

Hi all
Since the LED display from the MBP is too oversaturated and contrasted, I cannot obtain a good image feedback when editing images with it. The Calibration Management Tool from the Mac isn't accurate in terms of sliders and controls, so I'm wondering if there is an app to tweak all this stuff with presicion.
Thanks in advance.
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This is probably too late now for you anyway but here is some extra information:
The "Digital Source Master" is the video footage before any D-Cinema formatting or encoding has been done.
It can be literally anything. The DCI specification did not specify this.
They did however specify exactly what the transcoded verison has to look like. The "D-Cinema Distribution Master" (16bit TIFF, XYZ)
So in other words, you need to tell your service provider:
The resolution, fileformat, frame rate and especially the colourspace that you used.
For example r709 for HD or any other RGB colourspace with applied gamma value (2.3 for example).

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