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When I saw that nice white wall with the projector image my first thought was "keep the wall, zoom the image a bit larger for 2.35 and zoom back to where you have it for 16:9". Spend the $$ mounting some nice felt-covered shutters to give you a correctly sized screen for both aspect ratios.

I'm still doing that with my system, using a 4x8 sheet of Formica as a screen. In between the "super expensive screen" craze and the "mix your own paint" craze there was a brief "this particular Formica colour and texture is ideal for an HT screen" craze and that's when I got in.

A 4x8 sheet is too narrow for 2.35 and too wide for 16:9, so "I'm too lazy to cut it" becomes "I believe in constant-area projection"... although I really should remove the barcode sticker. It's down in one corner though, and neither image size illuminates it.

EDIT - on second thought never mind, when I think about how it would look in the room that's a pretty decent size already.