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[poiygon]

Halo 2 does support widescreen (must be set up in MS dash). As far as the autodetect, it depends on the TV and the signal. I ran the setup on my HD cable box, and 480(i/p) 16:9 automatically filled the screen, where 4:3 gave me bars on the sides. This is with my TV settings to Normal (4:3) = Normal, Widescreen (16:9) = Full.

The only thing that I find annoying about widescreen is that some DVD manufaturers don't know the difference between Widescreen and Letterbox. I think every 1-in-10 DVDs I own that claim Widescreen are really in letterbox. To compensate for this I have to use the Zoom setting to get a better aspect ratio.

[Mr Ed]

Halo2 is widescreen.  You may have to manually tell your TV that it's widescreen and not 4:3 though.

[project722]

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The only thing that I find annoying about widescreen is that some DVD manufaturers don't know the difference between Widescreen and Letterbox. I think every 1-in-10 DVDs I own that claim Widescreen are really in letterbox. To compensate for this I have to use the Zoom setting to get a better aspect ratio.

All widescreen formats are letterbox. But not all movies will match your
ws tv's 1.78:1 aspect ratio. Most movies are shot in cinemascope, which
is something like a 21:9 aspect (2.35:1), and will still require "letterboxing".
on 16:9 televisions.  The only way to view these movies without letterboxing
is to use a projector.