Cover Flow: Certain Photos Are Very Blocky?

I have just been looking at a folder of TIFF photos (approx. 2200x3200ppi) using the Cover Flow display method.
The folder window has been expanded to fill most of my iMac's 24" monitor.
As I flick the photos across, the landscape shaped ones are crystal clear but the portrait ones (mainly) are impossibly blocky and mosaic looking.
I then tried with the same photos which had been converted to JPEGs and all of these were blocky.
Is there something I am doing wrong or is it that I am demanding too much processing power from my computer?

Doesn't seem to be. I just selected 2 pngs and a psd file (all in the same folder) that had custom icons, brought up the Inspector (Command-Option-i), selected the wee little icon at the top of the of the window (a dang near invisible blue halo surrounded it) and hit delete. All three files immediately lost their custom icons and went to showing generic icons in List view.
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