Blocky upscale in After Effects 7.0

Hi,
I am creating an animation using After Effects 7.0 and I got a little problem. If I upscale a picture, it doesn't use bicubic scaler (like in photoshop), only the nearest neighbor method, which looks really bad at some scenes. Here is a screenshot:
Used image is here: http://www.wanderingmind.org/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/custom/rotator/sample-1.jpg
Quality is selected to be Best. What is the problem?
Thanks
str4ngS

Hi,
No it doesn't. You are confusing viewport zoom with scaling. In your
first example, zoom is set to 200%, in your other it's 100%.
Yes, it does and you still misunderstand me, I don't confuse viewport zoom (which is also blocky but that's no problem) with scaling that can be set at Transform. I have just increased viewport zoom at my first example picture to show you a close look at blocks. I rendered two frames to show you the difference:
This was produced by After Effects CS4 (trial), upscaled from 100 to 471. Project image size was D1/DV PAL (1.07) [720x576].
This was produced by After Effects 7.0, upscaled from 100 to 471. Project image size was D1/DV PAL (1.07) [720x576].
I exported these two frames using Composition -> Save Frame As... -> File... (Ctrl+Alt+S). Quality was set to Best in both cases.
Well, whatever, feel free to file your own dark desires and ideas as a feature request:
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
As soon as they include their features into older versions through patches and updates and don't force me to spend a lot of money for a single feature, I'll post there.

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