Screen res of director movies

As a new person to making director cd/dvds. What are the
professionals doing for resolutions/stage sizes for director movies
that play full screen?
800 x 600 seems better for memory and yets seems to small
these days. What are most "professonals" doing now days? If i do 3d
it would be in a a window on the stage so i am not over worried
about that....at least for sake of this discussion. I will have
movies and quicktime vr in it to...and it will run off of harddrive
or DVD/CD. Not for web.
please give your opinions as many of you as possible. :)
thanks..
steve

It depends on your target audience. If you're building for a
kiosk you
have full control over the screen and therefore its
resolution. If it's
for consumers you can perhaps specify a minimum supported
resolution and
work to that. If it's for schools you might find yourself
more
restricted. If it's for a client, to a degree it's up to them
to come up
with a number for /their/ audience

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