Achronos, Pardon me for taking the opportunity to ask, but I have my 360 plugged into a monitor running 1600 x 1200 natively and that resolution isn't available to me in settings. I'm currently running the game at 1280 x 1024 and it looks pretty darn good. I'm not sure how to translate all the HD talk into monitor use talk. Could you help explain a little of this, and possibly reveal whether or not Halo 3 will have these resolutions available? For that matter, will Halo 2 for Vista offer 1600 x 1200? [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Achronos Any Xbox 360 can play games at 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. To play in 1080p, you need one of following: 1) A 1080p TV with 1080p capable component plugs - these are rare, most component inputs don't do 1080p. (This is what I do, as I do have a TV with component inputs that take 1080p) 2) A 1080p TV with a VGA input and the VGA Xbox cable. 3) A 1080p TV with an HDMI port and an Xbox 360 Elite. In all cases, Halo 3 will be displaying upscaled 1080p (all Xbox 360s have the same nifty scaler) - as it is natively 720p. It looks good in 1080p, but it is very hard to tell the difference unless you're actively flipping resolutions or have a gigantic display. If you already have a 360, the Elite is not really going to give you much more than more hard drive space unless your TV can only do 1080p through an HDMI port. And that's assuming you have a TV that can do 1080p in the first place, which most people don't have. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] daSupremeOne Straight from the Frankie "1080p at 60 fps is awesome for fighting games and barely a stretch for Live Arcade games. But if you want epic battles, dozens of bad guys, huge vistas and colossal structures, with advanced AI, HDR lighting and explosive physics, then you’re not getting those at 1080p at 60fps. Actually, that’s not entirely accurate – Halo 3 will display at 1080p through the Xbox Elite with its scaler and HDMI port, but not natively. We’ve seen it do just that and it looks utterly lovely. So if you have a 1080p TV, enjoy it yourself in a few weeks. Most people, and I mean the VAST majority of people don’t have a 1080p TV, so it would be foolish to sacrifice even a single feature for a bullet point number on the back of a box." So he is saying you will have a "lovelier" and will "enjoy it yourself", as a 1080P HDTV owner, I feel I just got shafted. I will have to buy an Elite to play this game in 1080p. Why did I ever adopt in a launch console? MS had stated they were not going to do 1080P games, I accepted, and went with the purchase, but when they do this switcharoo, I just got shafted. It was us early adopters that made the system cool...[/quote][/quote]