What does it mean to often listen to the movie IMAX?

IMAX, which originated from the English word "Image Maxium", is the best imaging system in the world at present. It combines the achievements of film technology, with the largest screen, the clearest image, the highest precision, the most powerful projection equipment and the most advanced six-channel multi-speaker sound system. IMAX is known as "the ultimate experience of movies" abroad, because when you watch IMAX movies, you are not only looking with your eyes, but conniving at your whole body's senses to deceive yourself-seven-story-high, 20-meter-wide super-large screen, crystal clear picture, extremely realistic six-channel and subwoofer, you will feel that you have suddenly become a big beetle in Metamorphosis, and the boundary between reality and illusion is blurred.

Digital deep processing technology (DMR) developed by IMAX Company can convert ordinary 35 mm film into IMAX version of 70 mm film, so that Hollywood blockbusters can be put on an unparalleled big screen without damaging their "crystal-like" image quality. Although this technology is just mature, only a few movies have been transformed, such as prequel trilogy, The Matrix, Spider-Man II and Harry Potter 3. And the conversion price is as high as $2 million, but it shows great development potential, making IMAX films shown in museums, science and technology museums, planetariums, aquariums, theme parks and other popular science education institutions for more than 30 years. James Cameron, the great director who is famous all over the world for filming Titanic, even issued a prosperous warning that "IMAX cinemas will gradually replace traditional cinemas in the next five or six years".

Due to the addition of blockbusters, IMAX cinemas are showing amazing box office potential. The three-dimensional animated blockbuster Polar Express, which was released at the beginning of last year, was defeated by Superman Family in the competition of ordinary cinemas, but it created a box office miracle of IMAX cinemas, and made a box office success of $3 million in 59 IMAX cinemas within one week. Inspired by the box office of Polar Express, Fox's animated blockbuster Robot will also be shown in IMAX theaters.

IMAX format, also called "big movie format", uses a special 70mm film, while the general film is only 35 mm.. The photosensitive area of the former is 10 times that of the latter, which can accommodate more details.

IMAX movies can be divided into three types: rectangular giant screen, IMAX 3D giant screen and spherical giant screen. Among them, the rectangular screen can be as high as seven or eight stories, with a width of 20 meters, and the seats with large slopes lean backwards at an angle of 19 ~ 25 degrees, ensuring that all viewers can browse the whole screen. In order to watch IMAX 3D images to the maximum, we must wear special stereoscopic glasses and transmit two images with slightly different angles to people's left and right eyes through the polarizing filter device, so that the images presented to the audience are very stereoscopic and lifelike. The spherical screen can be as long as 30 meters in diameter, and the vivid images are vividly displayed, and the great shock is earth-shattering. Since the first IMAX movie premiered at Osaka World Expo in 1970, more than 240 IMAX cinemas have been established around the world, receiving more than 700 million visitors. Among them, 60% of IMAX theaters are located in North America, and the remaining 40% are all over the world.

At present, there are more than 260 IMAX movies in the IMAX movie library, most of which are about environmental protection and popular science, mainly produced by some independent production companies in North America. These films are entertaining and take the audience to places where they can't set foot, and explore the eternal mysteries of various natural wonders, such as the Grand Canyon in the United States, the inner world of atoms, and unpredictable space. Since the successful transformation of Apollo 13 in 2002, the patented technology DMR of IMAX Company has transformed more and more Hollywood blockbusters into IMAX movies, showing great development potential.

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