Front Projection vs. Rear Projection: With Regard to Light Control...

[Hillside Trece]

I started thinking about something with how it relates to front projection setups and rear projection setups, being that they're both based on lamp-driven technologies, etc. and had a question...

It's pretty much agreed upon that to get fully immersed in a front projection setup, the room needs to be completely dark, or close, with a great deal of light control -- but would the same apply to rear projection sets? I'm wondering if that's why I don't really enjoy my SXRD rear pro all that much -- especially during dark sequences in films -- when the room isn't nearly pitch black; when we run a small table lamp in our room during film watching, there is a distracting glare at times during dark sequences in films on the SXRD screen, and it got me thinking about how rear projection technology should be similar to front projection with regard to light control...

Is this thinking skewed or does it make sense?