What is iMax theatre?

What is an iMax theatre exactly?

What is iMax theatre?phantom of the opera

It is a movie/film theater with a huge screen...i think about 60 feet tall. Documentaries as well as big time movies can been seen on them. Some are at museums and such.

What is iMax theatre?listen to opera opera theater

not going into anything technical it is a theater with a big wrap around screen.
A film technology, developed in Canada, but now exploited in the United States. Huge cameras shoot huge rolls of film to be projected on to huge screens. In the IMAX theaters, the film is high enough and wide enough to include the whole visual field of the viewer, thus making the experience closer to that of the "mind movie". In the OMNIMAX theaters, this effect is further enhanced by projecting the image on a semi-circular surface.

IMAX (for Image Maximum) is a film projection system that has the capacity to display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film display systems. A standard IMAX screen is 22 m wide and 16 m high (72.6 x 52.8 ft), but can be larger. IMAX is the most successful large-format special-venue film presentation system.

Personally, I think IMAX is over-rated. Digital Projection is awesome, but most of the IMAX MPX's that are popping up lately aren't much of an improvement to me. Sure, it's a bigger picture, but I'm not going to pay the $15 or so to watch an already expensive movie. Dinner and a movie is already expensive... that's what a home theatre is for... cook yourself and lounge while watching a movie without people and their cell phones disturbing you.