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    Reading the ticket label is the only reliable way to know which IMAX you booked

    Before anyone books The Odyssey and drives two hours for it, check what the ticket actually says, because the blue logo covers wildly different rooms. If the label reads IMAX 70mm you are done, that is 15/70 film and it fills a 1.43:1 screen. If it reads IMAX with Laser you have learned almost...
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    The 2026 box office is up 19% and premium screens are why I left home

    The number that stopped me was 6.54 billion domestic through August 10, running 19.1% ahead of the same point last year and 28.8% ahead of 2024. It is even 6.9% ahead of 2023, which was the Barbie and Oppenheimer year. For context, all of 2025 finished at 8.66 billion, so the back half of this...
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    The IMAX scenes are the one time a 16:9 TV beats my scope screen

    There is a thread going round where someone describes losing hours to the Interstellar IMAX sequences on a flatscreen, and it reminded me of the one argument the TV side wins outright. Those expanded ratio scenes fill a 16:9 panel completely, edge to edge, and the switch in and out is the whole...
  4. kingofmyheart

    Disney's Infinity Vision is a badge, not a format - does that help anyone?

    Disney has announced a certification called Infinity Vision for premium large format screens. As far as I can tell the bar is three things: a large screen, laser projection, immersive audio. That's it. I haven't seen a published brightness spec, a contrast floor, a minimum screen dimension in...
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    Queen's Budapest 1986 hits IMAX in October, 4K UHD three weeks later

    Sound & Vision has the announcement: Queen's Budapest show, filmed on 27 July 1986 and the last full concert captured with Freddie Mercury fronting the band, goes into cinemas and IMAX worldwide from 7 October through Trafalgar Releasing, with Sony Music Vision involved. Physical editions land...
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