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  1. Colin Jacobson

    Theater Screen Masking (or lack thereof)...

    Sure, they were - the "LIEMAX" screens, at least. Those are in regular multiplexes and play tons of "conventional films" - always have. And I suspect some "real IMAX" screens have been built over the last 15 years or so - whenever it started to become common for "real IMAX" to run standard...
  2. Colin Jacobson

    Theater Screen Masking (or lack thereof)...

    It occasionally amazes me how many people will accept badly flawed movie presentations. I remember that my then-girlfriend and I went to see the 1998 "Psycho" its opening weekend, and there were huge green scratches evident in the print. No one else seemed to notice/care. We told the manager...
  3. Colin Jacobson

    Theater Screen Masking (or lack thereof)...

    But if people think it's a major distraction to see unmasked movies at "regular" screens, then shouldn't it be an issue on IMAX screens as well? Maybe it's 30 years of letterboxing at home that did it, but I don't even notice "unmasked" screens anymore. I'd prefer masking, but I'm so used to...
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