Thanks, everyone. Guess I'm going to get out the knife and trim this to 41x96 for a 2.35 screen. I was hoping to avoid all that zooming and panning when I went from 16:9 to 2.35:1, but I'm finding I need to adjust anyways because I like having the 2.35 movies at the top of the 4x8 panel rather than in the middle of the 16:9 projector pattern.
BTW I saw a neat border treatment on avsforums a couple of days ago -- I originally planned to have a pine border to match the rest of the trim in the house but black borders do so much more for the image quality. This guy had a 6" black border around the screen, with a 2-3" border on top of that. The result was a ~3" black border but the screen still looked like it really fit the room.
Who am I kidding ? I'm probably going to put a strip of black hockey tape around the screen
EDIT: interesting link :
http://home1.gte.net/res18h39/thxscope.gifLooks like my 12' viewing distance is pretty much optimal for a 96" wide 2.35 screen.
Also noticed that a couple of folks referred to this as 2.39 rather than 2.35. Turns out that around 1970 the standard went from 2.35 to 2.39, ie Randy's screen is an inch too high for modern movies but that can be fixed with a black marker
Also, the optimal distance for Randy's 120" wide screen seems to be 15.4 feet, so the second row should be ideal.
I wonder whether the anamorphic lenses stretch 16:9 to 2.35 or 2.39 ?
