Image quality in Flash animations

I notice when I run animations in the flash player, the image quality because very pixelated and blocky when I enlarge the animation.
I need my website to scale to different screen resolutions, so this can be a problem. Is there any way to make images smoother when the flash file is enlarged beyond it's native resolution?
I really need to know since my website has to scale to a LOT of resolutions.

Dont think there is any concrete solution for this,
Try using bitmap smoothing, it might help till some level.
Another workaround would be, use large size images and scale them down to your current native resolution (size). This might help if you find an intermediate resolution and use imageof that resolution.
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