Poor video qulity

I have a weird problem. I have some videos. They look perfectl fine using VLC player, Apple TV3 on a 63" display, Apple TV2, ipad. but for some reason they look like garbage in itunes and on Quicktime X.
Normal Size: 720x480
Scaled Size: 640x480
Preserve aspect Ratio: yes
Aspect Ratio: 8x9
offset 0x0
H.264 Profile High @ 3
I have another video that I encoded at a lower RF of 14 instead of 20 on the problem videos. I did this because 14 doubles the file size and i notice absolutly no difference on Apple TV or anything else... why is this a problem in Quicktime and itunes only??

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