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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I didn’t realize imax was still film. I figured it went digital with everything else.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

15/70mm film to be exact. IMAX 15/70mm is different to standard 5/70mm you would get in a normal cinema.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s only a handful of IMAX theatres in the world that can play this format. Most of them are digital.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm stoked...two theaters play in 70mm format near me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Our local one did, but I guess not all. It's a shame, you used to be able to watch the film being wound through windows

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can still do it through Linux, if you know the right commands..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Simply redirect standard output to the projector's file descriptor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can honestly say I do not have any Windows in my house.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that was pretty cool to see growing up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

there are both, the top end is still film though as far as I understand

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Digital still can’t match 70mm IMAX. In fact, IMAX film is even higher resolution than regular 70mm as the film runs through horizontally rather than vertically so more space is used for the image.

But a lot of it has moved digital. IMAX has special laser projectors. They just are not as good. Also, there is a lot of LieMAX (smaller theaters given IMAX branding) that are pretty well all digital.