I OWN A 6100 IT IS GREAT.MY PROBLEM IS 90% OF MY DVD I PLAY WILL NOT FILL THE SCREEN UP.I HAVE BARS AT THE TOP AND BOTTAM OF THE SCREEN.I CAN PLAY THE SAME DVD ON MY TV IT WILL FILL THE SCREEN.AM I DOING SOMTHING WRONG.?

Hello Justin I have a projector in my living room which sometimes has low level lighting in it and use a panasonic ptae900e projecting about 13 feet ( half way along the rooms length) onto a screen. I sometimes have the room totally dark ( late on winter nights) but more often there is light at the back of the room or shining in from the hall. Anyway I at first made my own screen from white blackout lining mounted on 2 battens which were wrapped in black felt and that worked ok. However i got way better brightness and contrast with a da- lite cosmopolitan electrol 106inch diagonal with high contrast matt white screen material. The high contrast matt white is ( oddly) slightly grey and gives fair contrast even with ambient light but is not too high a gain so no hot spots. In addition i found the instructions on the da lite site very easy to follow and installed the screen and wired the ( separate) remote control , motor controller unit myself which avoided an install charge. If however you are not competent with working with electricity ( i am an engineer) it may be safer to have someone else handle that end of things for you. good luck

My comments are on Justin Carter's screen ideas for this projector. Screens should last 10 to 40 years, projectors get obsolete as fast as computers, 3 to 5 years. Spending more on a screen than a projector can be a good idea. Pull down or electric screens wrinkle in time unless you keep them open. Fixed screens are cheaper and last longer and can be hidden by a curtain. Screen size is an opinion or guess mainly controlled by how far back you sit. For video tape, sit at least 2x the screen width, DVDs, 1.5x, Blu-ray, 1.2x. If the movie is filmed properly with minimal pans, zooms, and close-ups, sit closer, if the movie pans, zooms, flashes, jerks, sit far back. High screen gain and bright projectors like this one can cause hot spots where for example a high mounted project projects down on a screen and the audience sits lower than the screen causing you to see an overly bright spot on the screen. With this projector and dim lit living room, you may want to choose a screen with a gain of 0.7 to 0.9. A gray screen should improve the contrast making the blacks look blacker and colors more accurate. If you want a cheap screen to match a cheap projector, go to your favorite paint store and ask them for special paint for projection screens and paint your wall. I recommend a shade of gray for this bright projector to compensate for the lower contrast.

This is more of a question than a comment. I have done some pretty extensive research on this product and have made the leap and purchased it but I have yet to purchase a screen. I want to be sure to get the most bang for my buck when I hook this unit up. I will be using a Yamaha RX863 receiver and the Monster Cable 1000 series HDMI cables to hook the unit up. It will be in a room that can be totally dark at most times but because it's my "man room" from time to time there will be some low voltage lighting in the back of the room away from the screen. Can anyone give me some advise as to which screen to use. I am looking somewhere between 94 and 120 inches. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.