Using Sony Bravia as display brightness issue

I'm using a Mini as a media server, hooked up via HDMI to a recently purchased Sony Bravia TV.
When watching video, the picture will automatically get brighter or darker -- but in the most annoying way possible. When watching a movie with a particularly dark scene (like at night or in space), the TV will adjust so the picture is dark. When the scene is lighter (like in the daylight or an explosion in space), the TV will adjust the brightness back up.
There's a setting on the Bravia that will adjust the picture based on ambient light conditions. Turning this on or off seems to have no effect.
This is not a problem when watching regular TV or TiVo or when using video game consoles.
This was also not a problem with our old TV, a Samsung, that we got rid of a month or two ago.
I've put in an email support request with Sony but thought that I would put the question out to you folks as well.
I'm stumped.

Well.... no luck so far. I looked for dynamic settings and turned them all off one by one. One of them made the screen noticeably brighter when I turned it off, but after less than a second, it dimmed again.
George, I tried replicating your settings but that doesn't seem to help, either. I wonder, though, if we have slightly different models or something. I don't have a "contrast" setting on my Sony but do have a "picture" setting which seems to the same thing. Oh well.
Also, I've discovered I was wrong about this problem not effecting other inputs. The screen does get dark while playing Wii (but fortunately most of our games are fairly bright).
I put in a request to Sony for help and they replied saying to turn off the TV, unplug everything (including TV from power outlet), re-plug and cross fingers. Nope. Nothing.
They said that if the problem isn't fixed, try different cables. Which brings up a slightly different but related question, one that might be more pertinent to the Apple forums: do you think the HDMI might be a factor? Or the Mac itself?
I ask because I got rid of my older computer because the HDMI port suddenly failed and the old TV had only one port. The cable is a Monster, I believe, and if I remember it wasn't exactly cheap. Anyway. Thoughts?

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