Terrible Colour on My Samsung with My Mini

Hi All.
I bought myself a cheap Mini and decided to use it as a media center for my movies and stuff. I have attached it to my 37" Samsung TV via the normal display lead and for the most part it works fine. As the Mini hasn't got an optical output I will achieve sound via headphone jacks into my Surround Sound DVD player.
So now the problem. The colour is terrible! I don't want to change the TV settings as this will change it for when I watch TV or play Xbox, etc. I've tried everything I know but to no avail. The display profile is simply called "SAMSUNG", and the other default profiles (sRGB, Adobe RGB and Generic RGB ) look rubbish too.
Can I edit the SAMSUNG profile? If so how? Can I download different profiles?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as at the moment I have a £180 paper wieght.
Thanks

Do you have a single video output or the dual. I think yours has a single. When you connect to the TV, what do you use (cables/ports/connectors)? Try different ones if you can.
I have just been playing with a Mac mini and I have a Toshiba TV. I connected with a VGA cable and I also thought the colours were a bit dark. In Displays preferences, you could look at the Colors section and use Calibrate (even if you don't play with the TV settings, you may bring the screen up a bit more with the Calibration). Also try the brightness: that is easy to set and reset.

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