Desaturated, too bright footage after rendering

Hey everyone!
I'm having some trouble with rendering out my footage(s).
They become desaturated (color loss) and bright for some reason.
I tried different render methods, codecs, formats...almost same result on each of them.
Here is a picture, it can explain better:
The original footage is much darker, and may lack of some detail, but it more colorful.
Also, the color loss/brightening is only visible on the rendered movie (doesn't matter which codec or video player I use) - usually I use h264.
I do short animations as well, in AE. If I trie to render it out in AE, I get the same result.
First time, I noticed this problem, I rendered out a 40 min footage, and something was off. I couldn't fix this issue, and for some reason, I checked some old footage. They ahd the same problem, but I did not notice it before (see below - picture).
I'm using Adobe CS6, Windows 7 64bit.
Thanks in advance!

It's not the monitor.
Be it WMP, be it Quicktime, be it whatever, it's not the monitor.
The same washed out finished product looked exactly the same on the dvd on both a PS3 with 1080p tv, to an old projector attached to an old DVD player at school as it did on my computer with said monitor.
Sure, slight changes, but still the same kind of ugly.
It's not the monitor.
It's some kind of difference in Premier to the encoder, or the players or something, or some kind of weird bug. For the last time though, trust me, it's not the monitor. In fact, the monitor's gamma was up to high, and I figured that early on and I managed to match the original footage to itself through the camera.
Even if it was the monitor, how do I get it to look decent? There is no way because play with the color and brightness gets and ugly output no matter what, because you can't even guess what it'll look like. Premier and After Effects are pretty much rendered useless to me at this point, and I keep getting told it's the monitor. It's not. I've done 100 things to check that.

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