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Only the older TV sets should do that. I don't know of any new TV sets which have this problem. Newer sets should allow you to do all of its stretch/squish/zoom modes for 480p as well as 480i.
Oh good. I'm glad to hear that they stopped doing this. I haven't kept up with the latest RPTV's.
My last RPTV before I moved to front projection was a Toshiba first gen HDTV ready set. I remember that Toshiba only expected the 480p input to be used with HDTV and there was some colorspace issue when using external line doublers and progressive scan players with it. I hope problems like this don't still persist.
-Dylan