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Author Missing 2 inches of screen on Halo 2 16:9
Aelwyn

2004-11-11, 5:48 pm

Make sure you do not have the image stretched - most
Widescreen TVs have an option to stretch the image so that
it fits the screen and does not have the vercical bars
(similar to horizontal bars when you watch a widescreen
movie on a 4:3 TV) on the side when you are watching 4:3
ratio program.

The option should be in your TV settings
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>-----Original Message-----
>Anyone else having this problem?
>
>I've got a 55" HDTV Widescreen. I plopped in Halo 2 last

night and started
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>on the single player game. It feels like I'm zoomed in a

little bit. The
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>icons in the corner (shields, health, etc) are clipped.

Meaning about 2
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>inches of screen is getting cut off from the top and the

sides (like i'm
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>zoomed in). I checked my xbox settings and I'm set to

widescreen and my HD
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>is turned on. I've even shut them off in the xbox and no

change. I have
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>also changed my TV from 16:9 to 4:3, no change, still

clipped just at a
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>4:3 ratio.
>
>Multiplayer does the same. If i put in Halo 1, it works

fine.
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>
>.
>

John Bigbooty

2004-11-12, 6:04 pm

This is a widely known problem. Plenty of talk about it over at the
bungie boards. It is only occurring on some widescreen sets, not all.
The amount that is cutoff is different on each set.

Looks like Bungie used more of the overscan area that most sets can
show. Generally, a set can be tweaked, via service menus, to show more
overscan area, but using and changing items in the service menu is NOT
for the faint of heart. I wouldn't recommend it.

It sucks and although many are hopeful bungie can fix it, I doubt
we'll see a fix. I'm in the same boat as you and I'm pretty pissed
that this oversight was made. If Bungie didn't catch it (all test TVs
identical?), surely at least one or two previewers saw it. Somebody
dropped the ball big-time


Mark




On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:26:02 -0800, "Aelwyn"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>Make sure you do not have the image stretched - most
>Widescreen TVs have an option to stretch the image so that
>it fits the screen and does not have the vercical bars
>(similar to horizontal bars when you watch a widescreen
>movie on a 4:3 TV) on the side when you are watching 4:3
>ratio program.
>
>The option should be in your TV settings
>
>night and started
>little bit. The
>Meaning about 2
>sides (like i'm
>widescreen and my HD
>change. I have
>clipped just at a
>fine.

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