Itunes 11 cannot play purchased TV shows or Movies

I recently upgraded my PC to itunes 11. Since the upgrade, I have been unable to play any purchased TV shows or Movies in itunes. I use Home Share, and the videos will play on my iPad and iPhone, but will not play on my PC. The video screen opens to a black screen, and the times shows it is playing, but the screen stays black, with no audio.
What I have tried:
1. Rebooted several times, and restarted iTunes
2. Ensured there were no updates pending
3. In Quicktime, set video to Safe (GUI) -No change
4. In iTunes, deauthorized and reauthorized my account.
Really a pain, and now I am holding off on upgrading other devices until I can make sure that this is resolved. This is exactly why Apple needs to remove restrictions on their files, as all of my other Movies and TV shows that were no purchased from Apply play fine.

I have resolved this issue. Here is the link to the solution: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1277
I did not feel comfortable deleting the files, so I renamed the SC Info folder to oldSC Info, and then rebooted. Once I went back into iTunes and played a TV Show, it asked me to autorize again, and then everything worked great.

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