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The Panasonic powered zoom (and associated format switch feature) is enormously useful even if the screen one has is not 2.35:1. Different formats will require zooming to take best advantage of any screen. (It's only with a 4:3 screen, where the limiting factor is always width, that the feature might become irrelevant -- and even then it would depend on the projector's characteristics as it switches between formats.)
I have a 16:9 screen (which works as a good compromise for all movie formats and fits well on the wall of a standard room) and have to zoom in and out (and adjust height) every time I switch between classics and 2.35:1 movies. The black bars (top and bottom for 2.35:1 or left and right for classics) have not bothered me, esp. with the kind of deep black levels one gets today. However, the powered zoom is crucial, since my projector is ceiling mounted -- it would be completely impractical to adjust manually every time.
The otherwise excellent and very helpful reviews posted here tend to understress the usefulness (I would say, the indispensability!) of a powered zoom -- at least for users who have ceiling-mounted projectors and watch media in different formats.