Frankie at Bungie has just confirmed that HALO and HALO 2 will run in 720p widescreen resolution on the XBOX360. All you do is insert the disk and play. The XBOX360 will do the rest. Sweet! Read below for the juicy details. As I stated in another post earlier, HALO and HALO2 will not be getting a software upgrade. The hardware that runs the software, though, obviously is getting a major upgrade.

To clarify, the “new” version of Halo or Halo 2 is simply the disk you have already. Pop it into your 360 and it’ll load up just like before. You will have to log into Xbox Live to enable Halo 2’s online functions, but both games will work immediately.

But here’s another bonus – the hardware in the 360 can do a lot of nifty stuff, and specifically in the cases of Halo and Halo 2, it can display the graphics in wide screen, at 720p, with full scene anti-aliasing. And it doesn’t look kludgy, artifacty or smeary like an upscanning DVD player. The best way to describe it is that both games look like they’re running on a PC at those resolutions.

Links:
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=h2anniversary
http://hushedcasket.com/index.php/topic,1016.0.html