Video quality of recent Heroes episode?

Did anyone else notice that the latest issue of Heroes "Company Man" had quite poor "black level" encoding? I had to turn the brightness of my monitor down SEVERELY to make scenes with black in them be black versus a feild of verical green stripes.
With all my monitor settings set the same, previous episodes do not exhibit this behavior..
Thanks!
Dual G5 2.0GHz, 12" powerbook. Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Somone was listening - got email that suggested I download a new version of the same episode..

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