Apple TV 2 Mirroring Poor Quality.........

When my iPad 2 mirrors to my Apple TV 2, it goes to a very poor quality.
Help!!
I have tried changing the default resultion on the Apple TV (Menu & Up for 6 seconds), still to no avail

Ok... this is by no means meant to be any exhaustive test but this is what I found out.
I started iTunes Wifi sync with the iphone 4s so it was busy transfering data.
I then started chopper 2, via Airplay with ATV. I immediately noticed the picture quality was poorer. There was noticable video compression artifacts on the screen. The picture seemed much softer.
I then stopped the itunes Wifi sync ..
I restarted chopper 2, and noticed a massive improvement in picture quality.
My take away from this is, you need decent wifi bandwith to get the best possible picture from mirroring, so a Wifi-N router maybe desirable.

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