Mini's video calibration

Is there any way to properly and accurately calibrate my HTPC Mac MIni's brightness and contrast? I've noticed the blacks are extremly dark and quite frankly "crushing"
Plex can't seem to retain the selected settings, instead I need to adjust them for every movie which is ludicrous.

Yep,
I have the powerbook 1.67 and a mac mini core duo, the powerbook handles s-video really well in terms of resolutions however the mini fails, it cannot manage anamorphic displays which are rubbish if youve got a widescreen tv. However in terms of quality they are both great even though the powerbook has 128mb video card the mini easily matches.

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