More Severe Brght/Contrst/Color Adjstmnts?

This is may be a dumb question (huh-huh...) but so what.
Is there ANY way I can more effectively and severely adjust brightness, contrast, and color, like on a TV? I mean third-party apps, extra hardware, soaking my eMac in water, whatever.
I do not want to calibrate; I've messed with that feature way too long and get unsatisfactory results. And the contrast and brightness in "System Preferences - Display" is nowhere near severe enough. If I didn't love this thing so much, I wouldn't care, so this isn't a dig on my eMac or Macintosh. But I hardly ever watch TV and I can adjust that thing like mad!

Yes; I've used the Display color tab options (be sure to check tha advanced options box) and can see a pronounced difference in color temp, gamma, etc., and the Geometry tab to tweak the display towards the edges. The display and contrast controls may not go as far as some TVs but they go as far as any other computer (Mac, PC, or Unix) that I've played with.
Is your problem that you can't see any real difference, or that changes you make don't stick? If the latter, try resetting Open Firmware, re-make the changes, then do a full shutdown followed by a cold start (which at least in the past was more certain to save PRAM setting changes than a restart).
To reset the Open Firmware settings: restart holding down the command-option-o-f keys; at the "Welcome to Open Firmware" black text on a white screen type in the following commands and press return after each (case sensitive, no spaces):
reset-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
The Mac should restart after reset-all (if it doesn't, type mac-boot and press Return)

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