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IMAX and Giant Screen

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Zoe

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Is there a difference between IMAX and Giant Screen? I'd like to go see the Lord of the Rings film at a local IMAX theater showing it on a 'giant screen', but I'm not sure if I'll get the 'IMAX experience'. Their automated phone system didn't help.

Or is it that they're the same huge theater room, but instead of any old film that's just rerecorded onto 70mm film, only specially formatted/produced films can be publicly listed as IMAX films?

Thanks for replying.
 
I think the imax movies use the whole dome-like screen, while the huge screen movies are probably still widescreen aspect ratio...just my guess
 
giant screen can mean anything. probably just a reasonably large normal screen they like to tout as giant. if they had imax they wouldn't be hiding that fact, its much different. even if it were a 35-70mm transfer to imax, they would call it imax. 70mm film with giant reels that are many feet acrossm filmed using the film across so a image actually takes several normal 70mm frames to fit, elaborate cooling systems etc and multi story tall screens. omnimax is the round version of imax.
 
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