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HTPC scaling options?

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I hope to totally overhaul my home theater in the near future. My goals are:
  • 10~12' wide DIY 2.4:1 screen
  • DIY masking system (probably using a simple motorized drapery controller and floor-to-ceiling curtains)
  • DIY anamorphic lens
  • HD-HTPC
  • 1080P projector

If I was buying a projector today, I'd probably go with the Epson 8350 - but it doesn't have vertical stretch, so I'm looking at doing that in the HTPC. My questions...
  1. In addition to using the HTPC to vertically stretch cinemascope content, is there some way I can manipulate other source material with varying aspect ratios so that the anamorphic lens can be left in place all the time? (OK, most of the time - I'd still have to disengage it for sources other than the HTPC.)
  2. Is my receiver (an Onkyo TX-SR607) going to have a fit about these strangely stretched/distorted video signals I'll be routing through it?
 
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