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My 96"-wide (NOT diagonal) screen sits 10-1/2 feet from my nose and provides a 42-degree viewing angle. I use an Epson 1080UB projector, and I LOVE the immersion in the movie I feel with that wide a view.

So-called hi-def TV don't look as good as images from HD DVDs and Blus, the former having too much motion artifacts to look good.

One thing I love about the accessibility of the projector...
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...and its lens-length range is that I can simply zoom Panavision-ratio movies to fill the screen, and they look GREAT. Another delight is being able to zoom football broadcasts to get rid of the useless portion of the screen that's above or below the virtually-always-there game-score line.

My last TV was a 67-inch-diagonal single-DLP Samsung. It looked plenty good, but I wanted bigger, so I bought the Epson projector and initially an 80"-diagonal screen. That evolved into the 8'-wide monster I now have and love watching.
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Sit close; see a LOT!
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