Oh sorry if I missed that Nathan would be going with a constrained height Cinema Scope screen format. If this is the case it would be best to have a motorized lens that also has memory.
With this option you can set-up the XW5000ES on the Cinema Scope screen with Cinema Scope content to fill...
All projectors, like TVs will automatically generate the black bars when displaying Cinema Scope content to properly display the 2.35:1 - 2.40:1 Cinema Scope image.
We have Sony's XW5000ES set-up in our main showroom's theater demo room with a 135" 16:9 screen and Cinema Scope content looks...
Nathan, Sony's XW5000ES works perfectly with an CinemaScope or 16:9 screen, and with all content aspect ratios. The XW5000ES, like all other projectors will generate the required cropping black bars to properly display all aspect ratios on the screen of your choice.
The only time you would...
Sony's advantages are the better lens and much better processing for up-scaling low resolution content, like cable and even 4K HDR streamed content as Netflix, Amazon Prime and all other streaming services compress the video to 15Mbps and Sony's very well respected XR processor does a great job...
Sony's XW5000ES has a manual lens for focus and zoom.
Regardless of the content format the projector will display the images correctly. For constrained height "CinemaScope" content the projector generates the black bars to display the content in all of the CineScope aspect ratios, e.g...
Yes, Sony and JVC are my favorite brands for long throw projectors. We have them listed on our website along with several other brands and all of the sale prices are listed on each webpage.
Sorry for the short notice on the sale prices. The sales started two weeks ago, but end tomorrow.
Sometimes a bump in the road turns out to be a good thing.
I suggest checking out Sony's true Native 4K HDR Laser projector that's on sale through this Sunday with a $1k discount, VPL-XW5000ES $5,999. Sale $4,998. and some dealers have additional special promotions.
Also all of JVC's...