Okay, let's give this a try:



This picture was taken from my seating position 15 feet back. As you can see in the pic, the viewable image is nearly wall to wall (and for me, THAT'S home theater). I'll shrink it a little to accomodate borders, but as I said, 120" wide looks good to me from 15' back so I don't want to go smaller than that. In the image shown, there's ~13 inches between the top of the projected image and the ceiling. That's what I'm trying to work with, but...

...maybe I shouldn't have been so firm in my previous post (you know, "end of story" and all that jazz). I realize that shrinking my width requirement to 9 feet opens up a whole lot of options regarding tower/center combos. But after watching that 11' wide image for so long, 9 feet would seem downright small to me, especially with a cinemascope screen .

Oh well, my search has just begun. Thanks for the replies so far. They're very much appreciated.


--James