Quality of images / video on new MBP

Have recently bought a new MBP, and have been noticing that with some images and video, the quality is a bit off.
I just tried taking a screen grab from the old powerbook, and one from the new MBP to show the difference, but they both look wrong on the MBP, and both look OK on the Powerbook :
http://www.handprintdvd.co.uk/mbpdisplay.htm
So not that much help!
But there are basically sort of hotspot areas on the skin tones mostly.
If anyone can shed any light on this, as to whether it may be an issue with the display, or if there is anything I can change in any settings somewhere to fix it, that would be much appreciated.

Having rummaged further, it looks like it's the issue with gradients / dithering.
Seen a few posts on the subject, but no solution.
A lot of stuff about how they display thousands instead of millions of colours, and that's just how it is - but there's no way this is within acceptable limits of a £1,599 laptop.

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