Apple TV not streaming/playing in HD!

Lets see if someone can help me with this problem...
My girlfriend and I just set up our Apple TV. We have a Samsung HD television (1280 X 720 @60Hz). We set up the Apple TV without any problems and everything appeared to be working fine. The main screen and all the app screens are in HD, but when it streams video (HboGO, Netflix, Watch ESPN) it plays them in standard definition. I went through the settings and changed all the video resolutions to see if that was the problem but none of them fixed it. I even did a software update on it to see if it could have been a bug or something.
Does anyone know how i can fix this so it will start playing in HD??? Thanks!

I live in BOGOTA COLOMBIA, and my PS3, wii and computer works fine with netflix, BUT the ipad, iphone and apple tv shows the same message.
I think is an apple problem, not netflix!
please help apple!
thanks.

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