Samsung LCD LN40B640 Picture Quality

I just purchased the Samsung 40 in. model number LN40b640. I hate the picture quality it has! Commercials looks better then the TV shows themselves and every TV show and movie I've watched looks like a cheap, amature movie. More like a home movie then a tv show. I feel like I'm watching people act instead of watching a tv show. The TV picture quality looked good in the store and I can't figure out what is wrong with it now. Is there a setting or something I need to try to adjust? I use Dish network...is there special wires I need for the picture to be better? Or is there something wrong with this tv? I would hate to have spent this amount of money on a TV to watch everything look like a poorly home made movie. Please help!!

I'll bet $1000000 and a house that the channels you're watching are SD (standard definition). That's why they look so bad. You saw an HD signal in the store. To get that picture quality, you'll need to subscribe to Dish Network's HD package.
BTW, HDTVs display SD content worse than SDTVs do. Your reaction is typical of most consumers who get their first HDTV and don't have HD service. Just think about it: you're inputting a 640x480 signal, and making the TV upscale it to 1920x1080. That's more than a 4000% increase. It's the same thing when you take a small picture from your camera and blow it up.

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