Videos darker in iTunes than Quicktime Player

I've bought a few movies from iTunes and imported a few from other sources.
Whilst watching one purchased from iTunes (There will be blood) I felt the video was very dark. I did a little experimenting and have discovered that videos play considerably darker in iTunes than in Quicktime Player (the AV controls in Quicktime are set to the default so its not because I've adjusted the brightness manually).
I find this really confusing as I would have thought iTunes and Quicktime Player would be using the exact same framework/code to display the video. I can't see any way in the iTunes UI to adjust the video brightness. Am I missing something? Is it perhaps something to do with Colorsync/Monitor profiles. Perhaps one app is compensating with the color profile and the other is ignoring it?

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Macintosh Hardware
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*Playing HD-quality videos purchased on the iTunes Store requires a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor*
512MB of RAM; *1GB is required to play HD-quality videos*
Playing videos also requires at least 16MB of video RAM

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