Pb screen fuzzy plugged with mac mini and hdmi cable

Hi all, I bought my first mac yesterday and I plugged it it this morning on my tv screen with an hdmi cable. I saw that the screen at the bottom where all the icones are is fuzzy. We set it up at the apple store and it was working well. Could you please help me.
Thanks a lot for your answer

Well, here's to a happy conclusion.
After bugging the local electronics store for two days in a row, I've found a working Full-HD TV.
Lessons learned:
a) Be thankful for stores where you can bring in your own computer and hook it up to the TVs on display.
b) Don't just glance at the manual.
After trying several TVs and not getting any good picture by either connecting by VGA (consistently showed slight ghosting with high-contrast colors) or HDMI (all TVs did cut off Dock and menu bar), neither the salespeople nor I had any idea what else to do.
The next day, it hit me: We had tried all kinds of setup/config selections from the TV's setup menu.
What we did NOT do was to simply try it with the "Zoom/Aspect" button on the remote - partially because that didn't work with the first model I bought.
So, Mac mini back into the suitcase, back to the store, "Ah, you again...", hook up the first TV set, press "Zoom", pick "Truescan", press "OK" -
Problem solved. Pixel-perfect alignment. => TV bought.
Just for those looking for a "known to work" answer: It was the Toshiba, XV 500 series, older model. It's running on "1920x1080 @ 60 Hz (interlace)", but since I'm using it as a monitor, the "interlace-only" doesn't bother me too much. No problem even when watching DVDs via the mini.
Image is stable, text is crisp and readable at 5-6 ft. distance, dimmed-down lamp is more than adequate even at minimum brightness since the room faces north. Low-power setting of the lamp makes for only 70 watts consumption instead of the rated 180+ watts.
Happy user here now

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