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Subject: Halo not full screen on 360
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on my xbox 360, halo wont play in widescreen and has black bars on the sides. is this how it looks on the 360 or is there just something wrong....

  • 05.12.2006 6:35 PM PDT
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ya i have it connected and it gets the update but it will only go full screen in 480p not 720p

  • 05.12.2006 6:55 PM PDT

It's the hard heart that kills...

Johnrap said:

"If so, it should autofix this. If not, there is a download on Xbox.com. Not sure exactly where. Because my Xbox 360 is connected."

That's weird. When we first played Halo on the Xbox 360 (linked to two other regular Xboxes) the HDTV connected to the 360 reported 1080i on its display. After a few updates, it renders only 4x3. Anyone have a link to a fix, if there is one?

  • 05.13.2006 4:11 AM PDT
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There is no link to fix this, Halo was never released with a true widescreen format. The game is in 4:3. Switch your 360's console settings to 480p Widescreen and it will stretch the image to fill the screen.

Halo was released with HD support for 480p only. Even if you put in 720p or 1080i, it's just scaling things up so everything looks extra crispy, but doesn't change the original aspect ratio of the game.

  • 05.13.2006 10:14 AM PDT