Low Quality Image for Purchased TV Show

Greetings - I have recently purchased a TV Show (MLBaseball game) from the iTunes Store and was surprised by the low quality of the image. Basically the overall image is far from as crisp as it was in the original broadcast on commercial TV. I have a relatively high end graphics workstation, so the Mac is not the issue. Any thoughts on how to improve the quality of this substandard download? Thank you.
Message was edited by: Scotttt

Do you mean "MLB baseball" (it took me a while to figure out what to search for)?
Poor quality is a relative term and it would be good to get information about the file resolution, etc. Actually, pretty much anything on my computer looks better than on our 20 inch CRT television, but I later also figured you don't have one of those. Still, it's a matter of relative standards. On the FAQ site they say something about packing a baseball game into half a GB of file space. Even with modern codecs that may not produce crystal clear images if you're used to HD TV.
See:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/help/faq_technical.jsp#q23

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