What is IMAX?IMAX comes from the English abbreviation Image Maximum, which is a projection of the film that has the ability to image size and resolution than conventional film than others. The standard IMAX screen is 22 meters wide and 16 meters long (72.6 x 52.8 feet), but it could be even greater. (Wikipedia)
7 Greatest IMAX Theatre
The number of IMAX theaters around the world can not be said to be much when compared to the cineplex. However, below are seven IMAX theaters that described as the best, largest, and offers a madness most excited of what IMAX can offer.
The number of IMAX theaters around the world can not be said to be much when compared to the cineplex. However, below are seven IMAX theaters that described as the best, largest, and offers a madness most excited of what IMAX can offer.
1. Cinesphere - Toronto, Kanada
IMAX is a Canadian company, so yaa valid only if they set up the first installation there. Year 1971 was a year in which the IMAX theater, with a capacity of 752 established Cinesphere chairs, a screen measuring 86 x 60 feet, and has a Disney-style dome shape. The location is at Ontario Place, a theme park on the outskirts of Lake Ontario.
2. L'Hemisferic – Valencia, Spanyol
If you are tired of just looking at the design rounded dome-shaped theater, the theater belongs to Spain it will make you chuckle in awe. Its construction is a giant eye-shaped, with a theater located on the pupils, and also function well as a planetarium. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, the theater was completed in 1998 and is regarded as one concrete manifestation of Valencia as "the city of arts and sciences".
3. Darling Harbour – Sydney, Australia
In capacity, Darling Harbour IMAX is not the largest in the world, which is only 540 seats, but about the size of the screen, so far no emulous of his size at 117.2 x 96.5 feet. Projector was not enough just to one bulb, but 2 power 15 000 watt bulb, and require super cooling systems that "pumping 1600 cubic meters of air and 36 liters of water that has been distilled through a buffer lights every minute of it". Sound system is very large, also with the power of 15,000 watts of digital surround. For rabid fans of Star Trek, might be able to spend more money to go to Sydney and watch it there.
4. Futuroscope – Poitiers, Perancis
Located at Parc du Futuroscope, a thematic park based on multimedia and technology, theater kinescope, is the only one that has the most complete IMAX types, ranging from normal, dome, 3D, 3D dome, and flying carpet style. Type "flying carpet" to bring a second screen on the floor, giving the sensation of floating on air experience.
5. The Golden Snail – Jakarta, Indonesia
It may be regarded as the most impressive theater and most organic. The shape resembles the national symbol of Indonesia, which is the type of golden apple snails. Coming into the IMAX theater with the largest screen in the period 1985 - 1991, and of course a very big seat capacity, ie 930 seats or perhaps the largest in the world. Now it serves as a player more films about the beauty of Indonesia for tourists. Interestingly, this theater is not never show a film about the golden apple snail itself.
6. Science Museum of Minnesota – Saint Paul, Amerika Serikat
Although it does not have the biggest screen, but the theater this one has the biggest dome in the world. Moreover, the uniqueness is to have a dual screen that can be exchanged. This concept is a pioneer of the convertible screen, which presents a flat and dome screens that can play movies for IMAX dome, or referred to as Omnifilm. Another uniqueness is permanent theater projectors have that biggest electronics. But the main reason he got into the mechanical structure of the list is extraordinary. The outside of the theater to be built around a mechanism screen.
7. Prasads IMAX – Hyderabad, India
The theater is actually replaces that formerly stood IMAX Adlabs in Mumbai. What made it into the list? Not the screen size, not capacity, but it is the most popular IMAX theaters around the world. The screen size of 72 x 95 feet, 635 seat capacity, and has a powerful 12,000 watt sound system. Theater of the most visited often play blockbuster movies such as Harry Potter and Spiderman.
