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I agree with the insightful remarks (not the reviewer's, who is usually impeccable, particularly as tutor, as I think we all gratefully know) about the aspect-ratio accommodation issues, and the proper way to deal with them. I've used the Pano AE2000, which lacks the memory (and another feature I'll get to), but has the remoted zoom-focus. I have a motorized 130" diagonal screen. The zoom-focus was (and remained) hella fun, especially for focusing (what I thought were pixels from a few inches from the screen. Turned out I was viewing tiny dimples on the screen surface- test pattern more reliable!)and for fine-tuning filling the screen. Most useful is the caliper-like V-H positioning wheels, so unlike the stick-slip joysticks on my other Panos). My ceiling mount could also benefit from such machine-like positioning; it seriously pisses me off.

But- back to the equivalent of aperture-plate filing and teasers and tormentors- what you want to to is not zoom or focus for 'Scope, but reposition the image upward and motor-up the screen to frame the bottom edge. The H-V positioner doesn't have to be motorized to do this, nor does the lens. What needs to happen is that the IMAGE raster be painted at the top of the 16X9 imager, rather than by default centered, and the screen needs to be rolled up to mask the blank unused portion of the imager, however good the contrast. Problems do occur when subtitles are maliciously formatted below the frame, but I say just learn a foreign language and chill.

This trick could be implemented on my trusty AE100 in firmware; wish they had. Also wish they'd done a smoother job with H-V adjust. One more gripe- color temp varies slightly corner-to-corner, making B%W films and credits agony for lunatics like anyone reading this far. Also: Oano AE100 has heartbreaking chromatic aberration- terrible, inexcusable, although admittedly unnoticeable except to me. AE2000 lens was Canon L-quality perfect.