Yes! I'll Take an IMAX Home Theater System!
It's moments like these that I wish I was filthy rich. IMAX has revealed that they'll be offering private home theater systems. Unfortunately, for us normal folks, you'd have to be part of the one percent super rich to get one. According to the report, the custom designed IMAX theater will run in the price range of $1 million to $2 million.
What did expect though? It's freakin' IMAX! It includes everything you'd want in an IMAX theater. The at-home IMAX experience is modeled after the company's private screening room in Santa Monica CA, where studios test their IMAX movies out. It's aimed at the "ultra-premium home theatre market." The official site says, "IMAX designs every aspect of the IMAX Private Theatre from our renowned projection and sound technology to the room acoustics and theatre geometry to work as a fully integrated solution that is optimized specifically for your home." Here's what else you can expect,
With remote monitoring 24 hours a day every day of the year, and near 5-minute response time, the IMAX team is leaving nothing to chance. At-home support is provided when necessary and constant system tuning, audio calibration and predictive maintenance is performed regularly.
The projector system provides content in 2D and 3D with 4K resolution. The floor-to-ceiling curved screen seen in theaters is part of the package.
IMAX is offering personal introductions to the system for those interested. Initially, they will only be rolling out to theaters and select clients.
Chief IMAX Audio Designer Denis Tremblay also says that the equipment used in the IMAX Private Theatre "is actually cinema hardware." It's not a tweaked, watered down version.
As much as I want one it will end up being cheaper for me in the long run to go out and pay for my IMAX movies at the theater. I'll spend less than a million dollars in my lifetime continuing to do just that. If you had a couple million bucks to burn would you get your own IMAX theater?
