Why is quicktime 10 playing my exported widescreen movie as 4.3??

Basically, i hooked my dads new canon hg10 HD camcorder (1440x1080) and imported some clips to play with in FCP 6. The software very kindly told me that the new sequence would need changing to adapt to the new video which it did very nicely. So everything was spot on in the canvas, proper widescreen HD etc.
When i came to export i left everything on 'current settings etc' and hit save, soon as it was exported i opened quicktime 10 to view it and it was basically viewing it as 4.3 BUT when i opened it with 'REAL PLAYER' it was the correct 16.9 format.
I also went to the sequence settings and ticked the 'anamorphic' option and still the same result
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers

Im having this same issue. When I EXPORT (from FCP 6) a 16:9 movie and view in QT X, it displays it as 720x480 and not 853x480. WHY? Everyones fix is to view through QT 7. That is not a fix for me as I do not have the install disk. Also its not a fix at all, just a way around.
Raw files from the FCP capture scratch are fine. 853x480. Only when I EXPORT from FCP does go to 720x480. Even videos I EXPORTED before I upgraded to Snow Leopard and QT X are not displaying correctly. They did before. Ive even opened them on another machine running Leopard in QT 7 and its fine. So to me, its QT X. Everything worked fine before I upgraded to Snow Leopard and QT X.
Anyone have any insight?

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