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Posted by: Mr Naughty Body
If you're playing HD (720+), then you won't be able to play wide-screen (there will be two black bars on either side of the screen), but if you go into your XBox settings and knock the settings down to 480, then it will. I can't remember if it stretches... it probably does.
It's a distinction between 4:3-based settings and 16:9-based settings. All HD settings assume that you're sending picture to a 16:9 screen, and assume that the screen is set to display input across the entire 16:9, so the xbox pillarboxes the image to make sure that it's not stretched. If you're using 4:3 SD settings, the xbox assumes that you're sending to a 4:3 television or your TV is set to display images 4:3, and so it does not pillarbox. This means that if you tell your TV to display 16:9 while your xbox is sending 4:3 image, you get a horizontally stretched image, since the TV displays a 4:3 image across the entirety of a 16:9 screen.
I guess some of you people like to stretch your images, as many of my friends do with TV, but I find it quite painful. 4:3 images should be displayed 4:3.
Anyway, Halo 2 is the first Halo game capable of being rendered widescreen.
[Edited on 01.19.2011 10:47 PM PST]