Front Row Darker Than Quicktime

I am using an intel Mini as a media center with an HDTV. When I play the same Quicktime video with Front Row it is darker than when I play it directly with Quicktime. I believe Front Row uses Quicktime to play the video, so I don't understand why it should be darker.
I could adjust the TV, but don't want to do that every time. According to other threads, there are no settings for Front Row, though I understand that they exist for AppleTV.

While it's right that there are no settings for front row,
there are settings for Quicktime.
I don't know whether that's limited to QT Pro, but I remember a menu called something like "A/V-Controls" under "Windows" in QT.
There you might have set it to be brighter and saved the movie, so QT would remember your setting.
Front Row seems to ignore these settings, however.
You can check easily by selecting your movie in Finder's column view; the preview ignores the QT settings, too.
I'm not completely sure about this, but maybe you could check whether it helps.
greets,
Ludwig

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