7 premium screens
Glasgow
There are 7 premium screens in Glasgow, across IMAX, Chain premium screen, VueXtreme and ODEON iSense. The biggest picture is at IMAX Theatre at Glasgow Science Centre — 313 m² of lit screen, with almost nothing in it against Cineworld Glasgow Silverburn IMAX.
No room here can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Every screen in Glasgow 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: IMAX Theatre at Glasgow Science Centre never lights 30% 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.
3 of 7 publish their dimensions; the rest are scored on an estimate and marked as such. No projector here is yet confirmed by two independent sources, so treat the scores as indicative. One room is digital with the generation never established — we say so rather than guessing which laser it is.
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.
- Cineworld Glasgow Silverburn IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser24.1 × 13.27 m306 m² lit pictureB
- ODEON Braehead IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser16.4 × 9.1 m142 m² lit pictureC
- IMAX Theatre at Glasgow Science CentreProjector not established24.4 × 18.3 m313 m² lit pictureC
- Omniplex Glasgow (former Cineworld Renfrew Street)Chain premium screensize unpublishedC
- Vue Glasgow Fort - VueXtremeVueXtremesize unpublishedC
- ODEON Luxe Glasgow Quay - iSenseODEON iSensesize unpublishedC
- not
rankedCineworld Glasgow - Silverburn4DXsize unpublished
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