AMC Mercado 20 & IMAX

Santa Clara · United StatesSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 41/100 — a modest premium screen, 159 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 5 November 2026.

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IQ 41

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 17.4 m × 9.5 m (165 m²)
Screen shape: 1.83:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 370
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2009
Operator

Why IQ 41

Screen size9/38

159 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection24/36

IMAX Commercial Laser · 2 independent sources

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3AMC Mercado 20 & IMAX · 17.4×9.5 m · picture 159 m², 4% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 165 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 165 m²
Picture: 159 m²
Screen used: 96%

0.3 m of this screen's height — 4% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

Worth travelling for?

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You'd get 140% more screen, real 15/70mm film.

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You'd get 345% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.

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Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: one source, listed twice — these copy each other
Projector: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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