Omnimax [70mm IMAX Format]

The STS was installed in a well in the center of the seating area, and its compact chassis kept it low in the seating area, preserving the spherical geometry (with the projector at the center of the sphere) without blocking the view of audience members sitting behind it and facing forward. You could usually tell: the reprojection process created an unusual warp in the image, and more tellingly, these pseudo-Omnimax films almost always centered the action at the middle of the IMAX frame, which was too high to be quite comfortable in an Omnimax theater (where the "frame center" was well above the "front center" point of the theater). The 180 horizontal degrees of screen, the sound that was always a little too loud, in no small part to mask the sound of the projector that made its own racket in the middle of the seating.

Author: aberoham

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