> I've been looking around our local imax theaters to go see Dark Knight > since this is one of the few movies actually shot and not converted > for imax. I don't know anything about the tech specs behind imax, > just that it's big. I've been hearing conflicting stories about the > theaters here locally, mainly that we have one what is referred to as > 'real' imax and then a few smaller ones. Anyone know about the tech > behind these theaters? Are there several size variations? I'm not > speaking to the 3d ones...I don't think.
Your post actually forced me to check the wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imax And, according to that, the movies shot in that format do have a higher resolution than that of 70mm. Last year, I watched Harry Potter (Order of the Phoenix) in an Imax theater just because I happened to be in the Air&Space museum and it was available. When it began I noticed that the movie didn't use the entire Imax screen. Still it was so huge, I didn't notice that fact for the rest of the movie. For me, I wouldn't go looking for full-length movies in Imax, but if I came across at a convenient place, I'd watch (based on the movie, of course). ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
