Can't play purchased tv shows in HD in iTunes

I have a problem with my itunes and some HD TV Showes I purchased. Some would play and some only will play in SD. When I start them im HD I only see a black screen without sound but the itunes display that it is playing.
I tried to deactivate and activate the computer and I log out from the store and log in again. Won't play.
What can I do?

I had the same problem, but then i uninstalled quicktime 7.5.5 and then reinstalled it using a new download of just quicktime 7.5.5 for windows from apple.com. all seems to be working fine now. this was a really annoying problem, as i had just downloaded new tv shows!

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