Guidance wanted....

Start with basics:

-Price range

-Mounting distance

-screen size

-screen type 16:9 or CIH


answer some of those questions to significantly narrow down your choices

price range....anywhere up to 3500

mounting distance.....distance from screen to sitting area is approx. 23', so anywhere up to that

screen size....im staill waiting for measurments but a rough guess is i have roughly 8.5' width to use

screen type.... good question....which is better for overall viewing....

im not exactly fluent in projectors and screens, hence the reason for this post....\\


thanks

$3500 price range gives you a pretty good price point to select from. Right off the bat I would say read some of the higher number reviews on here (Panasonic AE4000, Epson 8500/8700, etc...) see what others have done/used and also learn what problems are sometimes out there, i.e. dust blobs


CIH will be useful if you watch a lot of 2.35:1/2.4:1 movies. If the buld of what you watch is 16:9 (HDTV) then you can limit yourself on what projector may work. In all honesty it pays to read through this forum and take a look at some of the helpfule websites like projector central, it has a calculator for the projectors you select and can allow you to "move" things around to show what size screen and light output you can expect. I personally just picked up an Epson 8350 and love it. It fits my style perfectly, even though I had orginally planned on getting the Panny 4000.