So I have a screen dilemma but it is CRT specific so I think it belong here rather than screens.

I'm completely redoing my theater in a new room
With a New projector Runco 1100 (barco 1209s) With a VP50 scaler.

I want to run a 2.35:1 Constant height setup but according to my reading with CRT projectors the preferred resolution for this would be 1920X800.

What I want to know is how would this effect HDTV content when run at this res out of the scaler.

I watch majority 2.35:1 movies both blu ray and DVD but also some HDTV.

I don't want to sacrifice HDTV resolution but think 16:9 should be narrower than movies in 2.35
But not at the cost of major quality reduction in HDTV. Or I will just go for a larger 16:9 screen and deal with HDTV being huge when 2.35:1 content is just right.

so my question is for those that have CRT projectors capable of 1080p with constant height is how does HDTV look scaled to the 1920x800 resolution displayed with black bars on the side?

I don't think the VP50 is capable of doing 2500x1080p and I'm not sure the projector could handle it anyway.

I need to decide on screen size so i guess I better set it up and try it but I was curious if some of you have already tried this and may have some guidance.

And I'm open to other suggestions.

I have to say I have this projector on the floor on a cart with a real rough setup and it is spectacularly better than my old 6pg+

B

I don't have 2.35 dedicated set up.
The whole reason to go with it is to get rid of black bars on top and bottom and ease down on bandwidth load on the PJ.
You will get the vertical bars with 16x9.
I would size my screen by lumen consideration if room boundaries are not an issue. And when you do FTL calculations you still have to use 4x3 assumption with width the common factor. Having said that I wouldn't go beyond 8' wide based on unity gain assumption if tubes are in good condition and resize for higher gain.

The resolution mentioned above will only include the areas of the picture that have something to show. (...none of black bars areas...at least not on boradcarst/production stuff!)

Good luck

Martin