The New Experience!
- The OMNIMAX Theater features a five-story, 72-foot-diameter, tilted, domed screen and a powerful, six-channel digital sound system—making the OMNIMAX a unique film experience.
- The OMNIMAX Theater recently completed a one million dollar renovation in November 2006.
- The 2006 Renovation included: a new dome projection screen with “disappearing seams”; a new projector lens doubling the brightness and sharpness of the picture; a more powerful digital sound system including new speakers; new and larger seats; new, high-tech LED room lighting; new carpeting; and new inclusion technologies including rear-screen captioning for the deaf and descriptive video for the blind.
- The new OMNIMAX domed screen is only 32 percent reflective—closer to black than white. We are the second theater in the world to get this new screen technology with seams that disappear during film projection.
- The new OMNIMAX Theater sound system more than doubles the previous audio power—36,000 watts of audio power fed to 50 speakers in seven clusters, all of which are hidden behind the screen. You can hear the sound through the screen because it is perforated. We are the first theater in the world to install this newest speaker technology from Imax Corporation.
Fun Facts!
- The theater floor is tilted at a 30-degree angle.
- The lamp used to light the screen in the OMNIMAX is a 15,000-watt, water-cooled xenon arc. It costs $5,000 and lasts for only 1,000 hours before it becomes prone to explosion and must be removed. The lamp was originally developed to illuminate the launch pads at Cape Canaveral for night launches to the moon.
- At 70mm, the film frame for the OMNIMAX is the largest in the world. Each frame is 10 times larger than a conventional 35mm film frame.
- OMNIMAX films run 24 frames per second, or 5.6 feet of film per second. That's 2.5 miles of film for a 40-minute movie.
- Each film print for the OMNIMAX Theater weighs 200 pounds and is worth $25,000.
- More than 6.4 million people have visited the OMNIMAX since it opened with Blue Planet on November 10, 1990.
Click here to see a list of films that have been featured at the OMNIMAX.
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