3 premium screens
Ashford
There are 3 premium screens in Ashford, across IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX. The biggest picture is at Cineworld Ashford IMAX — 266 m² of lit screen.
No room here can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Every screen in Ashford crops to 1.90 or wider, so a film shot with IMAX cameras will be missing about a quarter of its picture wherever you see it.
Worth knowing before you book: Cineworld Ashford IMAX never lights 28% of its screen. The fabric is bigger than the picture, which is why the ranking here is by lit area rather than by the dimensions cinemas advertise.
Ranked
Scored on the picture each room actually lights, not the fabric it is painted on. A tilde means the projector rests on a single dated source.
Choosing in Ashford
Screen you will be sold and never see
One room here advertises more screen than any film will light. Cineworld Ashford IMAX leaves 28% dark — 105 m² of fabric that never carries a picture.
Worth leaving Ashford for
BFI IMAX is 49 mi away and beats everything in Ashford — 206 m² more lit picture than the best room here.
How much of this is confirmed
Projector confirmed by two independent sources: 0 of 3. Single source: 1. No source: 2.
Not sure what separates these? The screen is not the picture →